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Uçar Ö, Çelik S, Karahan E, Altıntaş S, Yücel M. Exploring the relationship between spiritual care and patient advocacy of nurses from generations X, Y and Z working in intensive care clinics: A cross-sectional study. Intensive Crit Care Nurs 2024; 84:103754. [PMID: 38917680 DOI: 10.1016/j.iccn.2024.103754] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2024] [Revised: 06/08/2024] [Accepted: 06/12/2024] [Indexed: 06/27/2024]
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OBJECTIVE To determine the relationship between spiritual care and patient advocacy across three generations of nurses working in intensive care units. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. METHODS Data collection took place from July to August 2022 with 120 nurses in Turkey. Data collection tools included the Spiritual Caregiving Competency Scale, the Spirituality and Spiritual Care Assessment Scale, and the Patient Advocacy Scale for Nurses. Data on nurses' demographics were evaluated using descriptive statistical methods (number, percentage, mean, standard deviation). Independent sample t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation, and linear multiple regression analysis were used to evaluate the relationships between variables, with results reported as 95% confidence intervals (CI). RESULTS More than half of the nurses were from Generation Y (39.2 %) and Generation Z (42.5 %). Generation Z's mean patient advocacy score (156.96 ± 23.16) was statistically significantly higher than Generation X's (139.32 ± 34.26). We determined that the spiritual competence scale communication sub-dimension score of Generation Y nurses working between 1-10 years was higher than that of Generation Z nurses. Additionally, as the patient advocacy scores of all generations increased, so did spiritual competence scores. CONCLUSION The study found differences in patient advocacy and spiritual care competencies between generations. Thus, we recommend organizing courses, seminars, and in-service training on patient advocacy and spiritual care for intensive care nurses. IMPLICATIONS FOR CLINICAL PRACTICE This study estimates nurses' spiritual care competencies and patient advocacy levels from different generations and sheds light on the literature to eliminate differences in care between generations in nursing practices that evolve and change over time. It is recommended that courses, seminars, in-service training, spiritual activities, and interactive meetings be organized to encourage the participation of intensive care nurses to minimize the differences in spiritual care and patient advocacy among all generations of intensive care nurses.
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- Özge Uçar
- Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Science, Bartın University, Bartın, Turkey.
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- Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Science, Bartın University, Bartın, Turkey
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- Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Science, Bartın University, Bartın, Turkey
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- Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Science, Bartın University, Bartın, Turkey
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- Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Science, Bartın University, Bartın, Turkey
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Goyarrola R, Lamminmäki A, Sipola V, Karvinen I, Peake M, Saarelainen SM, Santavirta N, Niemi-Murola L, Pöyhiä R. Finnish Palliative Care Nurses' and Physicians' Perceptions of Spirituality and Spiritual Care Related to Their Attitudes toward End-of-Life Care. Palliat Med Rep 2024; 5:247-257. [PMID: 39044759 PMCID: PMC11262586 DOI: 10.1089/pmr.2023.0078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/27/2024] [Indexed: 07/25/2024] Open
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Background Spiritual care constitutes an indispensable aspect of palliative care (PC). Health care professionals encounter challenges when addressing spiritual care at the end of life. Developing appropriate attitudes toward end-of-life care can facilitate the acquisition of competencies needed for effective delivery of spiritual care. Aim To explore the perceptions of spiritual care and attitudes toward end-of-life care among PC professionals. Design The Finnish version of the "Spirituality and Spiritual Care Rating Scale" (SSCRS-FIN) and a newly developed "Attitudes toward End-of-Life Issues" (AEOLI) questionnaire were validated and utilized. Setting/Participants Both questionnaires were distributed to PC professionals involved in PC through an online survey. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted. The newly derived factors were subsequently examined for their associations with age, gender, profession, affiliation with a religious community, personal interpretation of spirituality, and years of professional experience. Results A total of 204 participants took part in the study (163 nurses, 19 nursing students, and 22 physicians). Exploratory factor analysis demonstrated satisfactory internal consistency, as indicated by Cronbach's alpha coefficients, for the five factors of SSCRS-FIN: "Spirituality" (0.733), "Existential" (0.614), "Spiritual Needs" (0.599), "Passive Spiritual Care" (0.750), and "Active Spiritual Care" (0.665); and for the seven factors of AEOLI: "Anxiety" (0.823), "Discussion" (0.924), "End-of-Life" (0.573), "Education" (0.692), "Medically Induced Death" (0.859), "Suffering" (0.671), and "Knowledge" (0.444). Confirmatory factor analysis demonstrated satisfactory fit values for both questionnaires. Significant positive correlations were observed between end-of-life care and the factors "Existential," "Spiritual Needs," and spiritual care factors, whereas an inverse correlation was found among "Anxiety," "Medically Induced Death," and all factors of SSCRS-FIN. Conclusions Valid and reliable questionnaires for assessing spiritual care (SSCRS-FIN) and attitudes toward end-of-life care (AEOLI) were developed. Attitudes toward end-of-life care were positively correlated with perceptions of spiritual care.
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- Raimo Goyarrola
- School of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
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- Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Finland, Helsinki, Finland
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- Faculty of Health & Finn Church Aid (FCA), University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
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- Palliative Care Center Siun Sote, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland
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- School of Theology, Philosophical Faculty, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland
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- Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Helsinki University Hospital, University of Helsinki (Clinicum), Helsinki, Finland
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- School of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
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Şahan S, Kaçmaz ED. Spiritual Care and Death in Intensive Care from the Perspective of Nursing Students in Turkey: An Exploratory Mixed Study. JOURNAL OF RELIGION AND HEALTH 2024; 63:1786-1801. [PMID: 37991596 DOI: 10.1007/s10943-023-01956-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/07/2023] [Indexed: 11/23/2023]
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This mixed methods research study aimed to determine spiritual care competencies and death anxiety levels of nursing students practicing in intensive care. The quantitative part of this study included 33 students while the qualitative part included 17 students. Nursing students' spiritual care competence was detected to be above medium and their death anxiety was high. Two themes emerged from the qualitative data collected through in-depth interviews with 17 nursing students: (a) Views on spiritual care competencies and (b) Views on death. These findings are significant to reduce nursing students' death anxiety, increase spiritual care competencies and the quality of patients' end-of-life care.
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- Seda Şahan
- Department of Nursing Fundamentals, Faculty of Health Sciences, İzmir Bakırcay University, Menemen, İzmir, Turkey.
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- Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, İzmir Bakırcay University, Menemen, İzmir, Turkey.
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Keskin Kızıltepe S, Koç Z. Intensive Care Nurses' Experiences Related to Dying Patients: A Qualitative Study. OMEGA-JOURNAL OF DEATH AND DYING 2024; 88:1016-1030. [PMID: 34873967 DOI: 10.1177/00302228211051856] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To describe intensive care nurses' experiences of caring for dying patients. METHOD This study was carried out between July 15, 2019, and September 15, 2019, in a university hospital's intensive care unit. We conducted in-depth semi-structured interviews with a purposive sample of 14 intensive care nurses to describe their experiences related to patient deaths. Qualitative thematic analysis was used to identify, analyse and report the identified themes. RESULTS Four themes were identified: (I) Emotions experienced the first time their patient passed away; (II) feelings and thoughts on impact of death; (III) difficulties encountered when providing care and (IV) coping methods with this situation. CONCLUSION Despite the passage of time, nurses are unable to forget their death experiences when they first encountered. They oftentimes use ineffective methods of coping and were negatively affected physically and emotionally.
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- Health Science Faculty, Ondokuz Mayıs University, Samsun, Turkey
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Özsavran M, Kurt A, Ayyıldız TK, Gül Z. "A Life Slips Through Our Fingers" Experiences of Nurses Working in Pediatric Intensive Care Units About Children's Death: A Qualitative Study. OMEGA-JOURNAL OF DEATH AND DYING 2024:302228231225885. [PMID: 38166543 DOI: 10.1177/00302228231225885] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2024]
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Caring for a dying child can be an experience full of all kinds of negative emotions, pain and stress for the pediatric nurse. In this study, which was carried out in Turkey, we aimed to determine how nurses working in a pediatric intensive care unit remembered and made sense of their experiences regarding children's deaths. In-depth interviews were held with 13 nurses. The data were analyzed using the content analysis method. Three themes were identified. These were (1) Personal effects of death, (2) Difficulties in care, and (3) Coping with death. It was clear that the nurses were traumatised by their exposure to infant deaths. The findings showed that nurses experienced regret, fatigue and posttraumatic stress disorder. In addition, it was determined that nurses should be supported to cope with child deaths, which is a complicated process involving the child and the family, especially emotionally. Moreover, providing institutional support to nurses and referring them to cognitive-behavioral therapies may make it easier for them to cope with the emotional burden they carry, as well as the burnout they experience.
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- Musa Özsavran
- Ahmet Erdogan Vocational School of Health Services, Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University, Zonguldak, Turkey
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Bartın University, Bartın, Turkey
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University, Zonguldak, Turkey
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- Institute of Health Sciences, Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University, Zonguldak, Turkey
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Stephenson P, Hansen D, Lalani N, Biggs J. Nursing and Medical Students' Responses About End-of-Life Communication Reveal Educational Opportunities for Spiritual Care. J Nurs Educ 2023; 62:601-605. [PMID: 37934687 DOI: 10.3928/01484834-20230906-03] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2023]
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BACKGROUND The need for improved spiritual care education is a national directive, prompting many nursing and medical education programs to respond with spiritual curriculum. This article reports on research that tested an educational intervention to enhance nursing and medical students' understanding of end-of-life communication with families. METHOD This mixed-methods study included three reflection questions to ascertain students' attitudes about their own death and dying. RESULTS Many of the students' responses were spiritual in nature. Findings revealed two important misconceptions about death and one educational strategy that can be used to help students identify potential sources of spiritual discomfort in clinical situations. CONCLUSION The findings offer a glimpse into the attitudes and beliefs of nursing and medical students that could influence how they view and deliver spiritual care, contributing to the evidence base for spiritual care education and curriculum. [J Nurs Educ. 2023;62(11):601-605.].
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Demirbağ S, Akan DD, Baysal E. On Between Death and Life: Intensive Care Nurses. OMEGA-JOURNAL OF DEATH AND DYING 2023:302228231198575. [PMID: 37605481 DOI: 10.1177/00302228231198575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/23/2023]
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The aim of this study is to explore intensive care nurses' perceptions and experiences about death and dying patient. This study included 15 nurses from a university hospital's intensive care units (paediatric and internal medicine). Data were collected through face-to-face, in-depth and individual interviews using the "Nurse Information Form" and "Semi-Structured Interview Form". Six major themes and sixteen sub-themes were identified on the nurses' perceptions and experiences with death. After the nurses described their perceptions of death, their responses, approaches, coping mechanisms, and effects on the dead and dying patient in care and factors affecting perceptions of death were defined. Our findings suggest that nurses, particularly those working in intensive care, should be educated/trained on death, and dying patient care. Thus, orderly psychological support should be provided to nurses.
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- Selin Demirbağ
- Department of Child Health and Disease Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Manisa Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey
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- Department of Internal Medicine Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Manisa Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey
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- Department of Fundamentals Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Manisa Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey
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He S, Zhao H, Wang H, Chen F, Lv T, Li L, Zhang H. The mediating effects of attitude toward death and meaning of life on the relationship between perception of death and coping with death competence among Chinese nurses: a cross-sectional study. BMC Nurs 2023; 22:87. [PMID: 36997960 PMCID: PMC10060942 DOI: 10.1186/s12912-023-01245-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2022] [Accepted: 03/11/2023] [Indexed: 03/31/2023] Open
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Background
It is important to understand how the perception of death affects the competence to cope with death.
Objectives
To explore whether the perception of death has an indirect effect on competence to cope with death through the mediation of attitude toward death and meaning of life.
Methods
A total of 786 nurses from Hunan Province, China, selected by random sampling method and asked to complete an online electronic questionnaire between October and November 2021 were included in the study.
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The nurses’ scored 125.39 ± 23.88 on the competence to cope with death. There was a positive correlation among perception of death, competence to cope with death, the meaning of life, and attitude toward death. There were three mediating pathways: the separate mediating effect of natural acceptance and meaning of life, and the chain mediating effect of natural acceptance and meaning of life.
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The nurses’ competence to cope with death was moderate. Perception of death could indirectly and positively predict nurses’ competence to cope with death by enhancing natural acceptance or sense of meaning in life. In addition, perception of death could improve natural acceptance and then enhance the sense of meaning in life to positively predict nurses’ competence to cope with death.
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Digital Competencies for Nurses: Tools for Responding to Spiritual Care Needs. Healthcare (Basel) 2022; 10:healthcare10101966. [PMID: 36292414 PMCID: PMC9601534 DOI: 10.3390/healthcare10101966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2022] [Revised: 09/30/2022] [Accepted: 10/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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Users show a growing interest in expanding the implementation of digital tools as a support of technical and management issues in healthcare. This medical care has focused on telemedicine but does not include the recognition of needs as an important part of patient-centred healthcare. Nurses interact with patients at critical times in their life journeys, including birth and death, which are historical events linked with religious beliefs. Furthermore, large migration flows have led to multicultural societies in which religion and spirituality are experienced in distinct ways by different people. Finally, most healthcare professionals lack the proper skills to handle the spiritual needs of their patients, especially for core and digital competences. This article shows the results of qualitative research applying as a research tool an open-ended questionnaire, which allows detecting the educational needs for nurses’ interventions aimed at providing spiritual support to their patients using digital tools. The results obtained reveal that nurses need education and training on fundamental spiritual concepts and digital competencies to meet the multiple demands of their patients’ spiritual needs. Finally, we present an open digital educational proposal for the development of competencies for nurses and other health professionals to provide spiritual care with the support of digital tools.
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Timmins F, Connolly M, Palmisano S, Burgos D, Juárez LM, Gusman A, Soriano V, Jewdokimow M, Sadłoń W, Serrano AL, Caballero DC, Campagna S, García-Peñuela JMV. Providing Spiritual Care to In-Hospital Patients During COVID-19: A Preliminary European Fact-Finding Study. JOURNAL OF RELIGION AND HEALTH 2022; 61:2212-2232. [PMID: 35511386 PMCID: PMC9069948 DOI: 10.1007/s10943-022-01553-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/26/2022] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Historically, there has be a close relationship between the nursing services and spiritual care provision to patients, arising due to the evolvement of many hospitals and nursing programmes from faith-based institutions and religious order nursing. With increasing secularism, these relationships are less entwined. Nonetheless, as nurses typically encounter patients at critical life events, such as receiving bad news or dying, nurses frequently understand the need and requirement for both spiritual support and religious for patients and families during these times. Yet there are uncertainties, and nurses can feel ill-equipped to deal with patients' spiritual needs. Little education or preparation is provided to these nurses, and they often report a lack of confidence within this area. The development of this confidence and the required competencies is important, especially so with increasingly multicultural societies with diverse spiritual and religious needs. In this manuscript, we discuss initial field work carried out in preparation for the development of an Erasmus Plus educational intervention, entitled from Cure to Care Digital Education and Spiritual Assistance in Healthcare. Referring specifically to post-COVID spirituality needs, this development will support nurses to respond to patients' spiritual needs in the hospital setting, using digital means. This preliminary study revealed that while nurses are actively supporting patients' spiritual needs, their education and training are limited, non-standardised and heterogeneous. Additionally, most spiritual support occurs within the context of a Judeo-Christian framework that may not be suitable for diverse faith and non-faith populations. Educational preparation for nurses to provide spiritual care is therefore urgently required.
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- Fiona Timmins
- School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
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- School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
- Education & Research Centre, Our Lady's Hospice and Care Services, Harold's Cross, Dublin, Ireland.
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- Department of Culture, Politics and Society, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR), Logroño, Spain
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- Department of Culture, Politics and Society, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR), Logroño, Spain
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- Faculty of Humanities, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- Faculty of Humanities, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- Faculty of Nursing and Occupational Therapy, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain
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- Department of Public Health and Pediatrics, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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Slabaugh K, Elliott B. Making Time and Being Present: Spiritual Care Revisited. Home Healthc Now 2022; 40:154-158. [PMID: 35510970 DOI: 10.1097/nhh.0000000000001066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The COVID-19 pandemic has placed significant strain on home healthcare clinicians, shifting the focus of care to essential physical care needs. Spiritual care needs have always been present, but the pandemic has heightened recognition of the importance of spiritual care in home care. The goals of spiritual care include promoting physical healing, improving quality of life, and enhancing patient and family wellbeing. The use of a standardized spiritual assessment tool can increase provider awareness and patient expression of spiritual care needs. Spiritual care activities consist of obtaining a spiritual history, compassionate presence, mindful listening, interprofessional collaboration, and the provision of space for spiritual practices. This article provides a conceptual overview and strategies for application of spiritual care competencies.
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Cruzado JA, Ibáñez Del Prado C, Carrascosa Pujalte E, Wong PTP, Eisenbeck N, Carreno DF. Spanish Version of the Death Attitude Profile-Revised. Translation and Validation Into Spanish. OMEGA-JOURNAL OF DEATH AND DYING 2022:302228221092860. [PMID: 35466802 DOI: 10.1177/00302228221092860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/21/2024]
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The Death Attitude Profile-Revised (DAP-R) was developed in English-speaking cultures with the aim of measuring attitudes towards death. This measure consists of 32 items, grouped into five factors (Fear of Death, Avoidance of Death, Neutral Acceptance, Approach Acceptance, and Escape Acceptance). The DAP-R was translated and adapted to Spanish (DAP-RSp), and the psychometric properties were analyzed accross a general sample. The face validity was evaluated by 20 experts in palliative care. N = 417 (X = 39.06 years) took part in the validation. DAP-RSp showed adequate internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha ranging from 0.67 for Neutral Acceptance to 0.95 for Escape a Acceptance, and 0.88 for the total), a multitrait scaling analysis and a confirmatory factor analysis reproduced the five dimensions of the original scale. The Spanish version of the DAP-R can be used as a valid scale to assess attitudes towards death in Spanish speaking population.
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- Juan Antonio Cruzado
- Facultad de Psicología, Edificio José Luís Pinillos (despacho 1223 O), 73074Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Campus de Somosaguas, Madrid, Spain
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- Facultad de Psicología, Edificio José Luís Pinillos (despacho 1223 O), 73074Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Campus de Somosaguas, Madrid, Spain
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- Facultad de Psicología, Edificio José Luís Pinillos (despacho 1223 O), 73074Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Campus de Somosaguas, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Psychology, 6515Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Canada
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- Departamento de Psicología, 16721Universidad de Almería, Almería, Spain
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Sayin Kasar K, Nacak UA. The Relationship Between Turkish Nursing Students' Perceptions of Spiritual Care and their Attitudes Towards Death. JOURNAL OF RELIGION AND HEALTH 2021; 60:4402-4416. [PMID: 34152546 DOI: 10.1007/s10943-021-01316-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/12/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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This study aimed to examine the relationship between nursing students' perception of spiritual care and their attitudes towards death. This cross-sectional study was conducted in Turkey between March and April 2021 with 601 nursing students using the Google Forms questionnaire. The "Spirituality and Spiritual Care Rating Scale (SSCRS)" and "Attitude towards Death Scale (ATDS)" were utilised to assist with data collection and analysis. While there was no relationship between the students' total SSCRS and total ATDS scores, there was a positive relationship between the total SSCRS and the Neutral Acceptance-Approach Acceptance Subscale (r = 0.129, p = 0.002), and a negative relationship between SSCRS and the Fear of Death and Avoidance of Death Subscale (r = - 0.097, p = 0.017). Providing support in terms of spiritual care and viewing spiritual care as related to nursing were related to the total SSCRS score. Alcohol use, viewing spiritual care as related to nursing, self-perceptions of spirituality, and fear of death were associated with the total ATDS score (p < 0.05). It is recommended that spiritual care and death perceptions be addressed more comprehensively in the educational curriculum of nursing students.
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- Kadriye Sayin Kasar
- Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aksaray University, Aksaray, Turkey.
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- Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aksaray University, Aksaray, Turkey
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Köktürk Dalcali B, Taş AS. What Intern Nursing Students in Turkey Think About Death and End-of-Life Care? A Qualitative Exploration. JOURNAL OF RELIGION AND HEALTH 2021; 60:4417-4434. [PMID: 34282510 PMCID: PMC8288065 DOI: 10.1007/s10943-021-01330-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/28/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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This descriptive qualitative study was planned to determine the views of intern nursing students about death and end-of-life care. The study was completed with 12 intern students based on the criterion of data saturation. As a result of the study, the categories of 'end,' 'uncertainty,' 'fear,' 'beginning,' 'helplessness' under the theme of death, 'ensuring peace,' 'continuing communication' 'providing psychosocial/spiritual support,' 'acting in conformity with principles of ethics/morality,' 'continuing to provide physical care,' 'supporting the family,' 'making the best use of the limited remaining time or helping the patient's last wishes come true' under the theme of end-of-life care emerged.
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- Berna Köktürk Dalcali
- Department of Nursing Fundamentals, Faculty of Health Sciences, Bandırma Onyedi Eylül University, Bandırma, Balıkesir Turkey
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- Department of Nursing Fundamentals, Faculty of Health Sciences, Bandırma Onyedi Eylül University, Bandırma, Balıkesir Turkey
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Li L, Lv J, Zhang L, Song Y, Zhou Y, Liu J. Association between attitude towards death and spiritual care competence of Chinese oncology nurses: a cross-sectional study. BMC Palliat Care 2021; 20:150. [PMID: 34587921 PMCID: PMC8480268 DOI: 10.1186/s12904-021-00846-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2021] [Accepted: 09/16/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUNDS An understanding of the oncology nurse spiritual care competence would help nurse managers recognize weakness in spiritual practice and improve the quality of spiritual care. But the relationship between attitude towards death and spiritual care competence is unknown. METHODS We recruited 326 nurses from hospitals in Guangzhou, China. The nurses completed the Chinese Spiritual Care Competence Scale and the Chinese Death Attitude Profile-Revised questionnaires. RESULTS The total score of spiritual care competence was 61.62 ± 16.10. And the lowest score of attitude towards death was for escape acceptance, 2.64 ± 0.82. Factors associated with nurse spiritual care competence were work department, whether trained in spiritual care, approaching acceptance, and escaping acceptance of attitude towards death. CONCLUSION Nurses need to perfect their spiritual care competence and establish positive attitudes towards death.
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- Liujin Li
- School of Nursing, Guangzhou Medical University, 195 Dongfeng West Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, P.R. China
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- School of Nursing, Guangzhou Medical University, 195 Dongfeng West Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, P.R. China
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- Nursing Department, Affiliated Cancer Hospital & Institute of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Nursing Department, Affiliated Cancer Hospital & Institute of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- School of Nursing, Guangzhou Medical University, 195 Dongfeng West Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, P.R. China
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- School of Nursing, Guangzhou Medical University, 195 Dongfeng West Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, P.R. China.
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Faronbi JO, Akinyoola O, Faronbi GO, Bello CB, Kuteyi F, Olabisi IO. Nurses' Attitude Toward Caring for Dying Patients in a Nigerian Teaching Hospital. SAGE Open Nurs 2021; 7:23779608211005213. [PMID: 33912673 PMCID: PMC8047931 DOI: 10.1177/23779608211005213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2021] [Accepted: 03/07/2021] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Introduction Death and the dying experience are common phenomena in all clinical settings. Death and the dying presents physical and emotional strain on the dying patient, his relations and professional caregivers. Objective The study therefore assessed the sociodemographic determinants of nurses’ attitudes towards death and caring for dying patient. Method A cross–sectional design was used to study 213 randomly selected nurses, working in one of the tier one teaching hospital in Nigeria. Attitude towards death and the dying was collected with Frommelt Attitude Care of the Dying and Death Attitude Profit–Revised questionnaire. The data collected was analysed with SPSS version 20 and inferential analyses were considered statistically significant at p < 0.05. Results The study revealed that most of the nurses had negative attitudes toward the concept of death (76.5%) and caring for dying patient (68%). Furthermore, a chi-square test revealed significant associations between the nurses’ years of working experience (χ2 = 24.57, p <.00) and current unit of practice (χ2 = 21.464; p = .002) and their attitude towards caring for the dying patient. Also, nurses’ age (χ2 = 13.77, p = .032), professional qualifications (χ2 = 13.774, p = .008), and current ward of practice (χ2 = 16.505, p = .011) were significantly associated with their attitudes to death. Furthermore, the study observed a significant association between nurses’ attitudes to death and caring for the dying patient (χ2 = 11.26, p < 0.01). Conclusion This study concluded that nurses had negative attitudes towards death and dying and therefore prescribes, as part of continuing professional development strategy, the need for requisite positive value – laden, ethnoreligious specific education regarding end of life care.
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- Joel Olayiwola Faronbi
- Department of Nursing Science, College of Health Science, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
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- Department of Nursing Science, College of Health Science, Osun State University, Osogbo, Nigeria
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- Department of Nursing Science, College of Health Science, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
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- Department of Nursing Science, College of Health Science, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
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Üzen Cura Ş. Nursing Students' Spiritual Orientations and Their Attitudes Toward the Principles of Dying with Dignity: A Sample from Turkey. JOURNAL OF RELIGION AND HEALTH 2021; 60:221-231. [PMID: 32418151 DOI: 10.1007/s10943-020-01029-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Nurses' attitudes toward spiritual care and death are influenced by their personal belief systems and world-views. The aim of this study is to reveal the attitudes of nursing students toward spiritual orientation and principles of dying with dignity. The study was conducted with the participation of 478 nursing students. As a result of the study, it was found that the average score of the students' spiritual orientation scale was high and the average score of the assessment scale of attitudes toward the principles of dying with dignity was found to be moderate.
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- Şengül Üzen Cura
- Department of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Canakkale, Turkey.
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