[1] Comfort can enhance health-seeking behaviors for patients, family members, and nurses.
[2] Kolcaba's theory successfully addresses the four elements of nursing metaparadigm.
[3] Providing comfort in physical, psychospiritual, social, and environmental aspects in order to reduce harmful tension is a conceptual assertion of this theory.
[3] When nursing interventions are effective, the outcome of enhanced comfort is attained.
She realized the lack of written knowledge on the subject of comfort being important in patient care.