Comfort is a concept that has a strong association with nursing.
Nurses traditionally provide comfort to patients and their families through interventions that can be called comfort measures. The actions of good nurses are comforting to patients. The positive relationships between these deliberate nursing actions and comfort is entailed in the first part of Kolcaba's mid-range Theory of Comfort. The relationships between comfort and health seeking behaviors are entailed in the second part of Kolcaba's comfort theory. Health seeking behaviors of patients, in turn, are positively related to Institutional Integrity.