Comparison of Perceptions of Spiritual Care Among Patients With Life-Threatening Cancer, Primary Family Caregivers, and Hospice/Palliative Care Nurses in South Korea

Kang, Kyungsik; Kim, Shin‐Jeong

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“…Spirituality has been seen to bring positive outcomes in extremely stressful situations such as life-threatening cancer or hospice care. 34,35 The tremendous fear which prevailed at the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, could bring more significant consequences than a typical, stressful situation. More intense, stressful situations may require a spiritual approach that goes beyond optimism and social support.…”

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Influence of Optimism, Social Support, and Spirituality on COVID-19 Stress in Christian Church Community

Kim

Lim

Moon

et al. 2023

Psychiatry Investig

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Objective Optimism, social support, and spirituality can be important factors related to coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) stress. However, studies investigating the influence and interplay of optimism, social support, and spirituality on COVID-19 simultaneously are still few. This study is aimed to explore the influence of optimism, social support, and spirituality on COVID-19 stress in the Christian church community.Methods A total 350 participants were included in this study. This study was cross-sectionally conducted by using an online survey on optimism, social support, spirituality, and COVID-19 stress that were measured by the Life Orientation Test-Revised (LOT-R), Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support Scale (MSPSS), Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWBS), and COVID-19 Stress Scale for Korean People (CSSK). The prediction models for COVID-19 stress were analyzed by using univariate and multiple linear regression.Results Based on the results of univariate linear regression, subjective feelings on income (p<0.001) and health status (p<0.001), LOTR (p<0.001), MSPSS (p=0.025), and SWBS (p<0.001) scores were significantly associated with COVID-19 stress. The multiple linear regression model with subjective feelings on income and health status and SWSB score was significant (p<0.001) and explained 17.7% of the variance (R<sup>2</sup>=0.177).Conclusion This study showed that subjective feeling on low income, those who had poor health status, lower optimism, lower perceived social support, and lower spirituality were significantly affected with COVID-19 stress. Especially, the model with subjective feelings on income and health status, and spirituality showed highly significant effects, despite the interaction with associated factors. To cope with unpredictable stressful situations like the COVID-19 pandemic, integrated interventions on psycho-socio-spiritual aspect are warranted.

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Influence of Optimism, Social Support, and Spirituality on COVID-19 Stress in Christian Church Community

Kim

Lim

Moon

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Psychiatry Investig

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“…Four studies reported that clinicians expressed sensitivity to cancer patients. [2,4,6,11] Clinicians recognized the importance and value of appropriately timed conversations about spirituality with the patients. Also, with the interprofessional approach it said that it is a key assessment to know when it is needed to refer patients to chaplains and other people skilled in providing spiritual care.…”

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“…The clinicians' perception of spirituality is one of the essential aspects to assess, as these would be beneficial in providing oncologic care to the patients. Multiple studies have been conducted on patients' views towards spirituality and less on the views of the health care providers, mainly qualitative studies [11]. Thus, a need to further study and explore this subject matter.…”

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Clinicians’ Perception of Spirituality in Oncology Care: A Qualitative Synthesis

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Alipio

Rosa

et al. 2023

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Background: By rediscovering the medical field spiritual foundation, clinicians sought to balance their care and realize that spirituality is frequently associated with healthcare, thus one's spiritual beliefs influence patients' decisions between aggressive care and complementary therapies in oncology care. Aim: This study investigates clinicians' experiences and perceptions of spirituality in oncology care that clinicians can utilize to improve cancer and spiritual care provision. Methods: A thematic, qualitative synthesis. Results: Four main themes emerged from the synthesis of the 11 included studies that can steer future framework and policies to make clinicians more inept in providing care to address spiritual well-being of the patients and their family from a clinician's point of view of spirituality: "Maintaining Hope and Spiritual Wellness, Clinician's Sensitivity to Cancer Patients, Provision of Culturally Respectful Spiritual Care, and Education in Providing Spiritual Care". Conclusion: Cancer patients, cancer survivors, and clinicians' quality of life is correlated with measures of spirituality and spiritual well-being. Spirituality also fulfill these oncologic patients has been linked to improved emotional and spiritual adjustment. Implications: Clinicians with different proficiencies, novice or expert, develop a strong spiritual belief can also be a strength when it comes to caring for those terminally ill patients, to be able to aid them in their sufferings. Amidst the challenges of spiritual care, these clinicians provide a patient strategy approach that is holistic to the care.

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“…Specifically, patients have to bear physical, economic, and psycho-social challenges. These challenges generate holistic physical-psychological-social-spiritual pain (Kang and Kim, 2020). Moreover, these challenges present different degrees of spiritual care needs (O'Brien et al, 2019).…”

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Spiritual care perceptions and empathy of Chinese nursing students: The mediating roles of spiritual well-being

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Objective To investigate spiritual care perceptions, spiritual well-being, and empathy, examine the correlations among spiritual care perceptions, spiritual well-being, and empathy, and explore the mediating role of spiritual well-being between other two variables of Chinese nursing students. Methods A cross-sectional design was implemented, and the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) Checklist was used to ensure quality reporting of the study. A cluster sample of 2,718 nursing students was selected from 7 universities and colleges in China. The demographic characteristics questionnaire, the Chinese Version of the Spiritual Care-Giving Scale (C-SCGS), the Spiritual Health Scale Short Form (SHS-SF), and the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy-Nursing Student (JSPE-NS) were used. Descriptive statistics, correlation, and process plug-in mediation effect analyses were used to analyze the data. Results The total score of spiritual care perceptions, spiritual well-being, and empathy were 173.83 ± 25.62, 98.74 ± 12.87, and 105.04 ± 21.34, respectively. Spiritual care perceptions were positively correlated with spiritual well-being (r = 0.617, p < 0.01) and empathy (r = 0.528, p < 0.01). And spiritual well-being played a partial mediating role between the other two variables (accounting for 28.1%). Significance of results Spiritual care perceptions, spiritual well-being, and empathy were quite moderate, which need in improving. It is suggested that nursing educators pay attention to the spiritual care education of nursing students, perfect the spiritual care education system, and take targeted measures according to nursing students’ individual personality traits and differences, improve their spiritual well-being and empathy in multiple ways, so as to improve their spiritual care perceptions and competence.

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Comparison of Perceptions of Spiritual Care Among Patients With Life-Threatening Cancer, Primary Family Caregivers, and Hospice/Palliative Care Nurses in South Korea

Cited by 13 publications

References 20 publications

Influence of Optimism, Social Support, and Spirituality on COVID-19 Stress in Christian Church Community

Influence of Optimism, Social Support, and Spirituality on COVID-19 Stress in Christian Church Community

Clinicians’ Perception of Spirituality in Oncology Care: A Qualitative Synthesis

Spiritual care perceptions and empathy of Chinese nursing students: The mediating roles of spiritual well-being

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