Introduction: The intensive care unit often causes major distress and anxiety in patients. Music interventions have been used to reduce anxiety and distress and improve physiological functioning in medical patients. Aim: The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of music on pain, anxiety and comfort in patients who are in the intensive care unit (ICU) with the diagnosis of Cerebrovascu...

Background: Most patients experience decreased physical, psychosocial, and spiritual comfort while receiving mechanical ventilation. Regarding the Muslim patients, diminished comfort might be associated with alterations in performing daily rituals, such as saying prayers (salat) and reciting the Holy Qur’an. This pilot study aimed to determine the effects of comfort care integrated with the Hol...

Teachers often suffer from health problems related to their voice. These problems are related to their working environment, including the acoustics of the lecture rooms. However, there is a lack of studies linking the room acoustic parameters to the voice produced by the speaker. In this pilot study, the main goals are to investigate whether objectively measurable parameters of the rooms can be...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate comfort and noise intensity using the COMFORT scale in infants who receive respiratory support with a helmet interface. PATIENTS AND METHODS An observational descriptive study was conducted on all infants (1 to 12 months of age) admitted to a PICU from November 1st 2013 to March 31st 2014 and who received non-invasive ventilation with a helmet interface. Tolerance to th...

Many walkability indices have been developed by considering a range of specific indicators. However, comfort indicators at the neighbourhood scale and effects thermal generally not accounted for in such research. To this end, we propose index (CWI) micro-scale. The proposed tool is based on two questionnaires, 330 respondents answered first questionnaire, to evaluate relative coefficient each i...