Table 1 Secondary analysis process
The primary study | |
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Conducted in 2019 | |
Title | Intimacy in palliative care from a nursing perspective - A qualitative interview study |
Aim | To describe nurses’ experience of intimacy in palliative care. |
Design | A total of 17 open-ended face-to-face interviews with RNs in palliative care in the Northern Region of Sweden were analyzed using qualitative content analysis with an inductive approach [28, 29] |
Interview questions | Describe intimacy in palliative care |
Results | Category: Intimacy in the care relation Subcategories: - Bodily care - Confidential conversation - Home, care room, and possession as intimate Category: Intimacy in the close relationship with a partner Subcategories: - Conversation about sexuality - The changed body - Physical touch as symptom relief - Relatives as caregivers |
Reference | Stenman, T. Intimacy in palliative care from a nursing perspective. A qualitative interview study. Master´s thesis. Ersta Sköndal Bräcke Högskola Stockhom: Sweden (Unpublished) |
The secondary study | |
Conducted in 2022 | |
New research questions developed from the primary study | How do RNs experience and describe confidential conversations? What can be raised in a confidential conversation? What conditions are described as necessary for a confidential conversation? |
Aim | To gain a deeper understanding of how RNs in palliative care experience and describe confidential conversations with PPCNs |
Secondary study | Secondary analysis (27) Qualitative content analysis with an inductive approach (28, 29) |