Research Article | Open Access
From Death anxiety to death awareness: An exploration of the lived experience of Iranian hospitalized patients in critical care units who witnessed unsuccessful cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Ali Esmaeili Vardanjani , Fatemeh Bahramnezhad , Mostafa Mohamadi , Mohammad Ali Cheraghi
Pages: 3473-3486
Abstract
ntroduction: This study was conducted to explore the lived experience of hospitalized patientsin critical care units(CCUs) who witnessed an unsuccessful resuscitation.
Methods: The participants in this interpretive phenomenology study were ten hospitalized patients in CCUs selected through purposive sampling. The data were collected through unstructured interviews and analyzed using vanManen’s approach.
Keywords
witnessing resuscitation, death awareness, lived experience, mortality salience, terror management theory
