Patient Perspectives about Spirituality and Spiritual Care

Fitch, Margaret I.; Bartlett, Ruth

doi:10.4103/apjon.apjon_62_18

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“…Individuality as a dimension of spirituality emphasizes the importance of looking at each person and their subjective experience, pointing to the person-centered care whose goal is a meaningful life, which is an important interception between health care and spirituality ( Puchalski, 2013 ; Håkansson Eklund et al, 2019 ). The healthcare professionals should be capacitated in recognizing spiritual issues in their patients and facilitate connections with the appropriate support ( Fitch and Bartlett, 2019 ).…”

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Defining Spirituality in Healthcare: A Systematic Review and Conceptual Framework

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Objective: To investigate the definitions of spirituality in the healthcare field, identifying its main dimensions and proposing a framework that operationalizes the understanding of this concept.Methods: This is a systematic review following the PRISMA guideline (PROSPERO: CRD42021262091), searching for spirituality definitions published in scientific journals. Searches were carried out in PubMed (all articles listed up to October 2020) and in the reference lists of the articles found in the database, followed by selection under specific eligibility criteria.Results: From a total of 493 articles, 166 were included in the final analysis, showing that there is a large body of scientific literature proposing and analyzing spirituality definitions. In these articles, 24 spirituality dimensions were found, most commonly related to the connectedness and meaning of life. Spirituality was presented as a human and individual aspect. These findings led us to construct a framework that represents spirituality as a quantifiable construct.Conclusions: Understanding spirituality is an important aspect for healthcare research and clinical practice. This proposed framework may help to better understand the complexity of this topic, where advances are desirable, given the relevance it has acquired for integral health care.

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Defining Spirituality in Healthcare: A Systematic Review and Conceptual Framework

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“…A study by Alswat et al (2017) also suggested that one of the dimensions that obtained the highest positive score in safety culture was related to organizational learning, continuous learning and organizational improvement (16). The study by Fitch and Bartlett (2019), which was conducted to identify systemic factors in nurses' perception of the patient's organizational safety culture, con rms this as well (17). The results of the study carried out by Top and Tekingündüz (2015) on nurses' perception in relation to safety culture showed six important predictors of overall safety perception, one of which was continuous training and upgrading organizational learning (18).…”

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Patient Safety Culture and Spiritual Health in the Operating Room: A Qualitative Study

mousavi¹,

Imani²

2020

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Background The concept of patient safety is an essential component of health care systems and is one of the key pillars of quality in health care organizations. One of the most important factors related to the safety of patients is the spiritual health of staff and patients. Accordingly, this study strived to explain the status of patient safety culture and its relationship with spiritual health from the perspective of health care providers in teaching hospitals of Hamadan.Methods This study was a qualitative content analysis study with a conventional approach using semi-structured open-ended interviews with samples selected by purposeful sampling technique to achieve data saturation. The proposed method of Granheim and Landman (2004) was also used for the qualitative content analysis of the data.Results In this study, 5 themes and 11 sub-themes were obtained from the participants' experiences. These included: continuous and dynamic training and upgrading of safety skills, attention to spirituality and conscientiousness and work commitment, effective communication and teamwork, equipping human and logistical resources based on the principle of care, accurate recognition of instructions, and error control.Conclusions The evaluation of safety culture clarifies the perceptions of safety participants in the organization and the attitude of managers and employees towards safety issue which can lead to the development of safety culture and quality improvement.

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“…In other words, if a patient achieves a meaningful life it shows that his/her spirituality has been valued, and paying attention to the spirituality of patients while also inducing a sense of worthiness to patients, makes them more receptive to accepting palliative care. This issue has been emphasized from various perspectives in other studies [27][28][29][30][31] such as: paying attention to patient's spirituality as a factor that could help improve patient's quality of life, adapting to the evolving concerns, providing hope for the patient, and finding ways to help patients escape their spiritual crisis and improve their lives.…”

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Inducing a sense of worthiness in patients: the basis of patient-centered palliative care for cancer patients in Iran

2021

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Background Patient-centered care is one of the main components in providing palliative care for cancer patients. This issue has been the subject of numerous studies and practices in nursing for many years. Few studies, however, have explored the perception of nurses about patient-centered treatments. This study aimed at exploring the perception of care-providers about offering patient-centered care to cancer patients. Method For attaining that aim, 18 care-providers were purposefully selected for an interview which allowed the researchers to explore the enriched experiences of these participants about offering patient-centered palliative care to cancer patients. After transcribing the recorded data, analysis was carried out based on Graneheim and Lundman’s method of content analysis. The research was qualitative in nature and conducted in 2019 in Iran. Results From content analysis, 3 main categories; considering patient’s spirituality, maintaining patient’s dignity during care, and reducing patient’s suffering, were found. The essence of these categories reflect on the care-providers’ consideration and effort in “inducing a sense of worthiness” in patients by providing patient-centered care. These categories also reflect on the perspective of care-providers about nurse- patient relationship for providing high qualified palliative care. Conclusion For providing patient-centered care inducing a sense of worthiness in patients, is the most fundamental component in providing palliative care to cancer patients. Therefore, by considering the structures and settings where the care is to be provided in the healthcare system, it is possible to direct the necessary educational, research, and administrative programs related to inducing a sense of worthiness in patients towards providing a more effective palliative care.

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Patient Perspectives about Spirituality and Spiritual Care

Cited by 49 publications

References 65 publications

Defining Spirituality in Healthcare: A Systematic Review and Conceptual Framework

Defining Spirituality in Healthcare: A Systematic Review and Conceptual Framework

Patient Safety Culture and Spiritual Health in the Operating Room: A Qualitative Study

Inducing a sense of worthiness in patients: the basis of patient-centered palliative care for cancer patients in Iran

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