This study was designed as an intervention study to determine the effect of light therapy on sleep problems and sleep quality of elderly people. The study sample was composed of a total of 61 elderly persons from Social Security Institution Narlıdere Municipal Nursing Home, 30 in the test group and 31 in the control group. Those 65 years and older, not diagnosed with major depression, not exercising regularly, not having sun allergy, not using sleeping pills, independent in activities of daily living, and having bad sleep quality were included in the study. The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, the Demographic Data Form, and the Follow-up Form for Elderly were used for data collection, whereas the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index was used for sample selection. It was found that exposure to direct sunlight between 8 AM and 10 AM for 5 days seems to be effective in increasing the global sleep quality score (P < .001). In light of the findings in this study, it is suggested that allocating living places in the institution's architectural setting and providing social opportunities for elderly persons to get direct sunlight exposure can help increase the sleep quality of older adults.
The aim of this study was to describe the experiences and practices of nurses providing palliative and end of life care. The study was conducted in the palliative care unit of a territory hospital in Turkey. The sample consisted of 11 nurses who had been working as palliative care nurses for at least one year. The face to face interview method was used to collect data, with a semi-structured in-depth individual interview. 5 main themes and 24 sub-themes were emerged in relation to the experiences and practices of the nurses. The majority of participant nurses pointed that inadequacy in the number of nurses, secondary nursing care activities, refusal of treatment, cultural and ethical problems were barriers in the provision of nursing care. They frequently experienced ethical issues when caring for end of life patients, and for this reason they felt the need for ethics counselling which they could consult.
This study aimed to investigate the effect of music on pain, anxiety, comfort, and functional capacity of cancer patients who received care in a palliative care unit. The population of this randomized controlled trial consisted of cancer patients hospitalized in the palliative care service between July 2018 and July 2019. The study included 60 patients (30 interventions/30 controls). The patients in the intervention group were given a total of six music sessions, 10 minutes each with the Turkish classical music in maqams of their choice (Hejaz or Rast accompanied by an expert tambour (drum) player). There was a significant difference between the mean total pain scores, anxiety, comfort, and functional capacity scores of the patients in the intervention and control groups before and after music therapy. Music therapy decreased the level of pain. It is demonstrated that Turkish classical music therapy improved the pain, anxiety, comfort, and functional capacity in the palliative care unit.
Objectives:This study aims to evaluate how the palliative care unit, that operates at our hospital, affects the mourning process of the patients' relatives and how it contributes to coping with the mourning process; it is also aimed to asses if there is a meaningful difference between the psychological states of patients' relatives who lost their lives in internal medicine intensive care unit and in palliative care unit or not; and it is aimed to determine the level of awareness about the concept of palliative care and to make necessary arrangements as needed in this context. Patients and methods: Between June 2013 and January 2014, a total of 20 people were included in the study, who lost their relatives while admitted to either palliative care unit or internal medicine intensive care unit, and who agreed to participate in the study at Izmir Tepecik Research and Training Hospital. The surveys were conducted by face-to-face interview method. Person Identifying Form, designed by a researcher, as well as Two Dimensional Mourning Scale, Beck Depression Scale and Beck Anxiety Scale were used to gather data. Results: There was no statistically significant difference about the sociodemographic features between the two groups of relatives of patients (p>0.05). Although the depression levels of relatives of patients who received palliative care were higher when compared to the depression levels of relatives of patients who received internal medicine intensive care, but this difference was not statistically significant (p>0.05). Anxiety levels of relatives of patients who received palliative care was higher than the relatives of patients who received internal medicine intensive care and this difference was statistically significant (p<0.05). Conclusion: As the patients' quality of life increases with the service provided at the palliative care unit, we thought that the hope of patients' relatives increases that the patients can recover. Since the patients' relatives expect the death of the patients more, who are admitted to the internal medicine intensive care unit, we thought that this difference might be due to the different units the patients were admitted to. Her iki grubun hasta yakınlarının sosyodemografik özellikleri arasında istatistiksel olarak anlamlı bir fark yoktu (p>0.05). Palyatif bakım hizmeti almış hasta yakınlarının depresyon düzeyleri dahiliye yoğun bakım hizmeti almış hasta yakınları ile karşılaştırıldığında daha yüksek idi, ancak bu fark istatistiksel olarak anlamlı bulunmadı (p>0.05). Palyatif bakım hizmeti almış hasta yakınlarının anksiyete düzeyi dahiliye yoğun bakım hizmeti almış hasta yakınlarınınkinden daha yüksek idi ve bu fark istatistiksel olarak anlamlı idi (p<0.05). Sonuç: Palyatif bakımda verilen hizmet ile hastaların yaşam kaliteleri yükseltildiği için hasta yakınlarında hastalarının iyileşebileceği umudunun arttığını düşün-mekteyiz. Dahiliye yoğun bakıma yatırılan hastaların ölümü yakınları tarafından daha fazla beklendiği için oluşan bu farklılığın hastanın yatırıldığı birimden...
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