Table 2.

Themes and Subthemes.

Themes	Feelings about the illness and intensive care	Psychological and physical damages	The dedicated work of the nurses and the importance of care	Protecting health and life
Subthemes	Fear (n = 16)	Psychological damage (n = 18)	Selfless care (n = 15)	Heeding the rules of isolation and hygiene (n = 13)
	Denial (n = 7)	Sustaining physical damage (n = 4)	Communication (n = 10)	Paying attention to nutrition (n = 8)
	Loneliness (n = 8)	Problems with adapting to daily life (n = 9)		Psychological maturity (n = 9)