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Sep 1, 2024 · Spiritual care is recognition of and attention to spirituality, including spiritual needs, within patient care [2, 3].Despite the importance of spirituality, the frequency of spiritual needs, and the role of religious beliefs within illness, spiritual care is infrequent, with studies reporting that 9–51% of seriously ill patients do not receive any spiritual care.
To start with clinical care, we should mention that in 2010, members of the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) founded a Spiritual Care Taskforce, which aims to “further evidence-based spiritual care by developing an agenda to inform research in this area, to improve staff competence and confidence and outcomes for patients and carers” . Progress is also evident at national ...
- Decisional Conflict Scale
- Facit-Sp
- DCS and Facit-Sp
- Semi-Structured Interview
Using a cut-off point of < 25 in the total score for decision implementation, 56 participants (58.95%) were able to implement their decision. Using the total score cut-off of ≥37.5, three subjects (3.16%) were uncertain about their decision. Positive significant correlations were found among all subscales with the exception of the Support subscale ...
Regarding participants’ spiritual wellbeing, the score for the Spiritual Wellbeing (SPS) and Meaning/Peace subscales displayed a significant positive correlation with all FACIT-Sp subscales with the exception of the social wellbeing (SWB) subscale. The Faith subscale showed a significant and positive correlation for the EWB, FWB, FACT-G and Meaning...
Patients who were able to implement their decision (n = 56, DCS total score < 25), compared with the remaining 39 participants who scored ≥25, showed significantly higher scores on the EWB (U = 699; p = 0.001), FACT-G (U = 792.5; p = 0.012), Meaning/Peace (U = 681; p = 0.001), Faith (U = 813; p = 0.017) and SPS (U = 692.5; p = 0.001) subscales, as ...
Data collected during the interviews enabled the analysis of 95 significant statements concerning the description of patients’ spirituality. The analysis was influenced by the interpretative phenomenological approach, in which the researchers made an interpretation of the meaning of the lived experiences of the patients . The authors independently ...
- Francisca Rego, Florbela Gonçalves, Susana Moutinho, Luísa Castro, Rui Nunes
- 2020
Jan 4, 2023 · Growing evidence has also supported the benefits of providing spiritual care at the end of life on clinical outcomes, highlighting the importance of its integration in palliative care interventions . While we have come a long way in easing physical discomfort and improving physical wellbeing of patients at the end-stage of life, spiritual care is still the most neglected component of ...
is associated with improved outcomes for patient and families. Spiritual care is associated with better patient and family quality of life, and care satisfaction. It is also associated with a greater rate of transition to hospice care and less aggressive interventions at the end of life. Spiritual care remains infrequent at the end of life,
A growing body of literature supports the notion that spiritual care is an important patient need in palliative care, that spiritual distress is a significant component of overall distress in palliative care patients, and that patients' spirituality affects health care decision-making and health care outcomes, including coping, quality of life, and end-of-life medical decisions .
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Dec 17, 2012 · Religion and spirituality (R/S) are important dimensions of most patients' experiences of advanced illness 1,2 and are associated with medical outcomes including improved quality of life (QOL) 3,4 and greater preferences and receipt of aggressive end-of-life (EOL) care. 5,6 7 Spiritual care (SC)—recognition and support of the R/S dimensions of illness—is considered by patients to be an ...
