Suffering at End of Life

Sacks, Jodi L.

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“…The consequences of suffering are complex and significant and this must be realized by health professionals such as nurses and doctors, as well as others involved with the patient (Hartogh, 2017). Meanwhile, if an individual's suffering is neglected by health care providers, the patient's distress and feelings of isolation become worse, excessive symptoms of pain and deprivation may arise, requiring more treatments, involving more forms and higher doses of pharmaceuticals and extending the duration of stay in the hospital (Deleemans et al., 2020; Sacks, 2013). Due to the lack of understanding of suffering among health care providers, they can unknowingly exacerbate and prolong the patient's suffering experience (Sacks, 2013).…”

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“…This illustrates our need to explore suffering in a holistic way. A review was conducted by Sacks (2013) examining patients’ experience of suffering, but this focused on the end of life phase of adults with various illness. It is therefore important to carry out a comprehensive systematic review of all phases of the cancer illness trajectory.…”

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Patient’s experiences of suffering across the cancer trajectory: A qualitative systematic review protocol

Iskandar

Rochmawati

Wiechula

2020

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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Aim: To identify, appraise and synthesize the available evidence from qualitative research exploring the suffering of patients with cancer during their illness trajectories. Design: Protocol for a qualitative systematic review. Data Sources: The database will include PubMed, CINAHL and Psych Info were searched in May 2020. Methods: The review protocol has been registered in International Prospective Register for Systematic Review (CRD42020165405). This review will systematically search qualitative research studies in databases from 1982-May 2020, with predetermined search terms. Searches are limited to studies in English. Two reviewers will independently appraise the methodological quality of the selected studies using the Joanna Briggs Institute Critical Appraisal Checklist for Qualitative Research. Disagreements can be settled through discussion which includes a third reviewer, if necessary. This review will use the meta-aggregative approach to analyze and synthesize data. A summary of findings from selected studies will be presented. Discussion: Suffering is a complex dimension that included physical psychological, existential and social dimensions. This review will enable nurses to gain an in-depth understanding of suffering that not only worsens at the end of life that can deliver comprehensive care. Impact: This review is designed to systematically identify and explore the suffering that patients with cancer experience during their illness trajectory. Often suffering is highlighted at the end of life phase. This review will synthesize the evidence of suffering from the beginning of the patient's diagnosis to the end of life. The results of this review provide evidence to support nursing developments in education and clinical practice so that understanding of cancer can be optimized. The findings of the proposed review will contribute as a basis for recommendations for future research regarding suffering.

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Patient’s experiences of suffering across the cancer trajectory: A qualitative systematic review protocol

Iskandar

Rochmawati

Wiechula

2020

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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“…In this sense, death represents a threat to one's own existence, since it implies the possibility of ceasing to exist, and therefore it is conceived as a stimulus capable of generating emotions of fear or anxiety (Sacks, ). However, it is a different matter to think of death as the idea of something that will happen at some point in our lives than to think of death as the experience of dying in agony and suffering.…”

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The Nursing Diagnosis of “Death Anxiety”: Content Validation by Experts

Fernández-Donaire

Romero‐Sánchez

Paloma‐Castro

et al. 2018

Int J of Nursing Knowl

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PURPOSE To validate the content of the NANDA‐I diagnosis “death anxiety” (00147). METHODS Descriptive study using the Fehring model with 202 Spanish nurses who were expert in end‐of‐life care to explore the adequacy of the components of the NANDA‐I diagnosis “death anxiety” (00147) in the Spanish edition. FINDINGS None of the diagnosis definitions were considered as representative. Furthermore, 5 of the 56 defining characteristics and 5 of the 26 related factors were validated as major. CONCLUSIONS In general, the components of the diagnosis “death anxiety” (00147) in the Spanish edition are not representative according to experts. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING PRACTICE The results support the need to either exclude the diagnosis from the taxonomy or adjust its content.

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Suffering as a Criterion for Medical Assistance in Dying

Scott

2023

The International Library of Bioethics

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Suffering at End of Life

Cited by 9 publications

References 21 publications

Patient’s experiences of suffering across the cancer trajectory: A qualitative systematic review protocol

Patient’s experiences of suffering across the cancer trajectory: A qualitative systematic review protocol

The Nursing Diagnosis of “Death Anxiety”: Content Validation by Experts

Suffering as a Criterion for Medical Assistance in Dying

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