Humanitude in the humanization of elderly care: experience reports in a health service

Melo, Rosa Cândida Carvalho Pereira de; Santos-Costa, Paulo; Henriques, Liliana Vanessa Lúcio; Tanaka, Luiza Hiromi; Queirós, Paulo Joaquím Pina; Araújo, João Pärtel

doi:10.1590/0034-7167-2017-0363

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“…A humanized care environment must be promoted during the students' training [19,30] so they can learn from good role models and not from 'bad examples'. Thus, a technicist care practice that disregards relational skills will increase the difficulties in interacting with patients [8,[30][31][32].…”

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Nursing Students’ Relational Skills with Elders Improve through Humanitude Care Methodology

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Tanaka

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Nursing students have difficulties interacting with cognitively impaired elders. This study aimed to identify students’ difficulties in interacting with elders, the causes of the difficulties in interacting with elders, the strategies used to reduce these difficulties, and the importance attributed to the Structured Sequence of Humanitude Care Procedures (SSHCP). It also aimed to assess the contribution of the Humanitude Care Methodology (HCM) to the development of interaction skills in nursing students. An exploratory descriptive study with a quasi-experimental design was conducted with a sample of 64 nursing students during their hospital clinical training. A control group (usual training) and an experimental group (HCM training) were used. Data were collected through a questionnaire applied at baseline and follow-up. Content analysis, chi-square tests, and Student’s t-tests were performed. The main difficulty identified was caring for agitated and confused elders. Difficulties were associated with a lack of theoretical–practical teaching, the clinical training context, lack of experience, and personality traits. HCM impacted positively on the development of students’ interaction skills. This study shows that HCM is an innovative methodology in nursing education that will allow for moving from an instrumental and technicist education into a more humanized training capable of transforming care.

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Nursing Students’ Relational Skills with Elders Improve through Humanitude Care Methodology

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“…A MCH tem contribuído para que os profissionais de saúde tenham maior conscientização das potencialidades da pessoa cuidada e a compreensão de seus comportamentos, promovendo melhor gestão das emoções, maior intencionalidade na relação e responsabilidade no cuidar, com o despertar do sentimento de dever cumprido e foco no trabalho em equipe (Melo et al, 2019). Tais aspectos favorecem o cotidiano de cuidado e a manutenção de relações harmônicas, com valorização do trabalho em equipe, o que dignifica a pessoa cuidada e os colegas de trabalho.…”

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“…O cuidado humanizado é caracterizado pela interação entre o binômio idoso-profissional (Damaceno, Chirelli, & Lazarini, 2019). Ao utilizar a MCH verificou uma mudança na cultura organizacional, mais focada na pessoa e na humanização da assistência (Melo et al, 2019).…”

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Metodologia de Cuidado Humanitude: Repercussões na atuação dos profissionais em instituição para idosos durante a pandemia da COVID-19

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Objetivo: compreender as repercussões do uso da Metodologia do Cuidado Humanitude na vida dos profissionais que atuam em uma estrutura residencial para pessoas idosas de Portugal, durante o enfrentamento da COVID-19. Método: Estudo descritivo, qualitativo, realizado em uma estrutura residencial para pessoas idosas no norte de Portugal. Participaram dessa investigação oito profissionais que apresentavam formação na Metodologia de Cuidado Humanitude e com experiência na assistência ao idoso. A coleta de dados ocorreu de forma online durante os meses de setembro e outubro de 2020, e os resultados foram analisados com base na análise de conteúdo de Bardin. Resultados: Participaram da pesquisa, enfermeiros, assistente social, psicólogo, sociólogo, terapeuta ocupacional e administrador. A problematização dos resultados seguiu duas grandes categorias as quais abordaram as temáticas referentes à consolidação de um ambiente saúdavel no trabalho e a redefinição da gestão do cuidado. Conclusão: Foi possível compreender que a Metodologia de Cuidado Humanitude repercutiu na vida dos profissionais de modo que os mesmos puderam identificar fatores motivacionais, satisfatórios e de valoração do processo de trabalho, assim como, características oriundas tanto dos pilares como dos fundamentos da metodologia, repercutiram de forma positiva na vida dos profissionais diante do enfrentamento das dificuldades experienciadas pela COVID-19.

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“…Humanitude consists of four care elements: three for communication, seeing, talking, and touching, and one that assists the physical act of standing. BPSDs and refusing care can be reduced in PwDs with this methodology ( Biquand and Zittel, 2012 ; Simões et al, 2012 ; Ito et al, 2015 ; Honda et al, 2016 ; Melo et al, 2017b ; Melo et al, 2017a ; 2019 ; 2020 ; Figueiredo et al, 2018 ; Henriques et al, 2019 ; 2020 ). Humanitude provides systematic care techniques to communicate with PwDs in nursing care.…”

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Technical Challenges for Smooth Interaction With Seniors With Dementia: Lessons From Humanitude™

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Due to cognitive and socio-emotional decline and mental diseases, senior citizens, especially people with dementia (PwD), struggle to interact smoothly with their caregivers. Therefore, various care techniques have been proposed to develop good relationships with seniors. Among them, Humanitude is one promising technique that provides caregivers with useful interaction skills to improve their relationships with PwD, from four perspectives: face-to-face interaction, verbal communication, touch interaction, and helping care receivers stand up (physical interaction). Regardless of advances in elderly care techniques, since current social robots interact with seniors in the same manner as they do with younger adults, they lack several important functions. For example, Humanitude emphasizes the importance of interaction at a relatively intimate distance to facilitate communication with seniors. Unfortunately, few studies have developed an interaction model for clinical care communication. In this paper, we discuss the current challenges to develop a social robot that can smoothly interact with PwDs and overview the interaction skills used in Humanitude as well as the existing technologies.

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Humanitude in the humanization of elderly care: experience reports in a health service

Cited by 17 publications

References 8 publications

Nursing Students’ Relational Skills with Elders Improve through Humanitude Care Methodology

Nursing Students’ Relational Skills with Elders Improve through Humanitude Care Methodology

Metodologia de Cuidado Humanitude: Repercussões na atuação dos profissionais em instituição para idosos durante a pandemia da COVID-19

Technical Challenges for Smooth Interaction With Seniors With Dementia: Lessons From Humanitude™

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