Evaluation of Health-Care Providers' Perception of Spiritual Care and the Obstacles to Its Implementation

Farahani, Azam Shirinabadi; Rassouli, Maryam; Salmani, Naiire; Mojen, Leila Khanali; Sajjadi, Moosa; Heidarzadeh, Mehdi; Masoudifar, Zeynab; Khademi, Fatemeh

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“…In addition to considering that spirituality is an intimate part of an individual’s personality that has nothing to do with the clinical relationship, doctors also commented on the lack of time in which to attend to the patients with respect to this dimension [ 57 , 58 , 59 , 60 ] due to the standardized protocols that do not allow it, with patients often being referred to other professionals who have more experience in this area. Since greater importance is attached to the other aspects of their clinical work within the healthcare practice, doctors tend to placeless importance on spiritual matters or avoid them altogether, delegating them to others (such as chaplains, counsellors, and pastoral workers) and neither taking on responsibility nor engaging in management training, as stated in other consulted sources [ 61 , 62 ].…”

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Spirituality in a Doctor’s Practice: What Are the Issues?

López-Tarrida¹,

Diego‐Cordero

Lima-Rodríguez

2021

JCM

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Introduction: It is becoming increasingly important to address the spiritual dimension in the integral care of the people in order to adequately assist them in the processes of their illness and healing. Considering the spiritual dimension has an ethical basis because it attends to the values and spiritual needs of the person in clinical decision-making, as well as helping them cope with their illness. Doctors, although sensitive to this fact, approach spiritual care in clinical practice with little rigour due to certain facts, factors, and boundaries that are assessed in this review. Objective: To find out how doctors approach the spiritual dimension, describing its characteristics, the factors that influence it, and the limitations they encounter. Methodology: We conducted a review of the scientific literature to date in the PubMed, Scopus, and CINAHL databases of randomised and non-randomised controlled trials, observational studies, and qualitative studies written in Spanish, English, and Portuguese on the spiritual approach adopted by doctors in clinical practice. This review consisted of several phases: (i) the exclusion of duplicate records; (ii) the reading of titles and abstracts; (iii) the assessment of full articles and their methodological quality using the guidelines of the international Equator Network. Results: A total of 1414 publications were identified in the search, 373 of which were excluded for being off-topic or repeated in databases. Of the remaining 1041, 962 were excluded because they did not meet the inclusion criteria. After initial screening, 79 articles were selected, from which 17 were collected after reading the full text. A total of 8 studies were eligible for inclusion. There were three qualitative studies and five cross-sectional observational studies with sufficient methodological quality. The results showed the perspectives and principal characteristics identified by doctors in their approach to the spiritual dimension, with lack of training, a lack of time, and fear in addressing this dimension in the clinic the main findings. Conclusions: Although more and more scientific research is demonstrating the benefits of spiritual care in clinical practice and physicians are aware of it, efforts are needed to achieve true holistic care in which specific training in spiritual care plays a key role.

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Spirituality in a Doctor’s Practice: What Are the Issues?

López-Tarrida¹,

Diego‐Cordero

Lima-Rodríguez

2021

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“…Moreover, the results of studies performed in Iran show that although clinical care staff members believe in the positive effects of spiritual care on patients, they have not received adequate training in these areas ( 34 ). The most important challenge in providing end-of-life care for children is lack of spiritual and mental support by the caring staff ( 35 ).…”

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Nurses' attitudes toward caring for terminally ill neonates and their families in Iran: a cross-sectional study

Kadivar¹,

Mardani-Hamooleh²,

Kouhnavard³

et al. 2021

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Providing care for terminally ill neonates is an important issue in NICUs. This research aimed to determine nurses’ attitudes toward providing care for terminally ill neonates and their families. A total of 138 nurses working in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences participated in this cross-sectional study via convenience sampling in 2019. The Data collection tool was the Frommelt attitudes toward caring for terminally ill persons and their families scale. The nurses in this study had the most positive attitudes toward the items “nursing care should include the family of the terminally ill patient, too” (4.2 ± 0.6) and “the care provider can prepare the patient or his/her family for death” (4.1 ± 0.7). The nurses had the least positive attitude toward the item “the time spent on caring for terminally ill patients creates a sense of frustration in me” (1.06 ± 1). The mean score of the attitudes of NICU nurses toward caring for terminally ill neonates and their families indicates the necessity of improving this attitude.

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“…Spiritual distress is prevalent in advanced cancer, 63 yet available evidence suggests that this distress typically is not adequately addressed. 64 – 66 Serious illness and related suffering may catalyze meaning-making but also a questioning of religious belief and of the meaning of life. 67 , 68 Illness and suffering may be interpreted as divine punishment or a result of bad magic.…”

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Essential Package of Palliative Care for Women With Cervical Cancer: Responding to the Suffering of a Highly Vulnerable Population

Krakauer

Kane

Kwete

et al. 2021

JCO Global Oncology

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Women with cervical cancer, especially those with advanced disease, appear to experience suffering that is more prevalent, complex, and severe than that caused by other cancers and serious illnesses, and approximately 85% live in low- and middle-income countries where palliative care is rarely accessible. To respond to the highly prevalent and extreme suffering in this vulnerable population, we convened a group of experienced experts in all aspects of care for women with cervical cancer, and from countries of all income levels, to create an essential package of palliative care for cervical cancer (EPPCCC). The EPPCCC consists of a set of interventions, medicines, simple equipment, social supports, and human resources, and is designed to be safe and effective for preventing and relieving all types of suffering associated with cervical cancer. It includes only inexpensive and readily available medicines and equipment, and its use requires only basic training. Thus, the EPPCCC can and should be made accessible everywhere, including for the rural poor. We provide guidance for integrating the EPPCCC into gynecologic and oncologic care at all levels of health care systems, and into primary care, in countries of all income levels.

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Evaluation of Health-Care Providers' Perception of Spiritual Care and the Obstacles to Its Implementation

Cited by 30 publications

References 52 publications

Spirituality in a Doctor’s Practice: What Are the Issues?

Spirituality in a Doctor’s Practice: What Are the Issues?

Nurses' attitudes toward caring for terminally ill neonates and their families in Iran: a cross-sectional study

Essential Package of Palliative Care for Women With Cervical Cancer: Responding to the Suffering of a Highly Vulnerable Population

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