Mental Health Nurses and Responding to Suffering in the Twenty-first Century Occidental World: Accompanying People on Their Search for Meaning

Cutcliffe, John R.; Hummelvol, Jan Kare; Granerud, Arild; Erikson, Bengt

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-31772-4_12

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“…This metaphor summarises participants’ experiences related to their struggle with issues connected to suffering and health while simultaneously being present in life. Approaching spirituality as ‘near‐life’ experiences rather than ‘near‐death’ experiences, implies their connectedness to health as a dialectical process and in line with an understanding of health as endurable suffering (35‐36,46), as well as with recovery as a process related to how people manage problems encountered in life rather than as a result or state (9,47).…”

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A ‘near‐life experience’: lived experiences of spirituality from the perspective of people who have been subject to inpatient psychiatric care

Koslander

Rönning

Magnusson

et al. 2020

Scandinavian Caring Sciences

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Aims To describe lived experiences of spirituality from the perspective of people who have been subject to inpatient psychiatric care and to interpret these experiences from an understanding of health as dialectical. Methods After approval from a regional ethical board, eleven participants were recruited from two organisations for people with mental health problems. Participants were asked to narrate about spiritual experiences and occasions where such experiences had come close. The transcribed interviews were analysed by means of a phenomenological hermeneutical approach. Findings A structural analysis of the text resulted in three themes; perceiving the presence of something extra mundane, making sense of reality and struggling for acceptance. The comprehensive understanding highlights spiritual experiences as going beyond religion, even though religious experiences appear as part of it. These experiences can indeed be a resource contributing to experiences of hope, connectedness, meaning and coherence in life. However, they can also give rise to doubt, anxiety and feelings of loneliness and hopelessness. Rather than understanding spiritual experiences as being either ‘good’ or ‘bad’, we could approach spirituality as something that is always present in alternate and inter‐related forms. Metaphorically, this could be understood as a ‘near‐life experience’, summarising participants’ experiences related to their struggle with issues related to suffering and health which are simultaneously present. Conclusions If psychiatric nurses could approach this complexity and, without being judgemental, explore seemingly positive and negative experiences of spirituality as dialectically related to each other, rather than viewing them as either resources or problems, this could contribute to insiderness care and hopefully also support people who struggle with these experiences to seek help when needed.

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Section: Comprehensive Interpretation and Reflection On Findingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A ‘near‐life experience’: lived experiences of spirituality from the perspective of people who have been subject to inpatient psychiatric care

Koslander

Rönning

Magnusson

et al. 2020

Scandinavian Caring Sciences

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Post-Traumatic Growth and Self-Compassion Level in Hemodialysis Patients

Arpacı,

Tanriverdi

2023

Illness, Crisis & Loss

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The hemodialysis process can lead to positive psychological changes in patients as they cope with physical and psychosocial stress factors. Understanding post-traumatic growth and factors that may be associated is essential to increasing the likelihood of achieving positive changes in hemodialysis patients. The aim of this study was to investigate the correlation between post-traumatic growth and self-compassion levels in hemodialysis patients. The study was conducted with 83 hemodialysis patients. Data were collected using “Demographic and Clinical Characteristics Form,” “Post-Traumatic Growth Inventory,” “Self-Compassion Scale.” Post-traumatic growth levels of hemodialysis patients were found to be moderate. The self-compassion levels of hemodialysis patients were found to be high. A statistically significant difference was found between gender, educational status, economic status, and self-compassion mean scores ( p < .05). However, no statistically significant correlation was found between post-traumatic growth and self-compassion ( p > .05). Further research is needed to explore the potential correlation between self-compassion and post-traumatic growth in hemodialysis patients.

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Mental Health Nurses and Responding to Suffering in the Twenty-first Century Occidental World: Accompanying People on Their Search for Meaning

Cited by 2 publications

References 31 publications

A ‘near‐life experience’: lived experiences of spirituality from the perspective of people who have been subject to inpatient psychiatric care

A ‘near‐life experience’: lived experiences of spirituality from the perspective of people who have been subject to inpatient psychiatric care

Post-Traumatic Growth and Self-Compassion Level in Hemodialysis Patients

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