The Effect of Spiritual Care on Adolescents Coping With Cancer

Abstract

People's experiences of living with cancer suggest that spirituality creates purpose and meaning in life for patients. Strengthening spirituality has positive effects on coping, mental health, and symptoms of the disease. This study examines the effect of spiritual care on adolescents coping with cancer. This research is a single-group, quasi-experimental, pre-/poststudy conducted on 32 adolescents. The spiritual care program was presented individually and face to face over six 45-minute sessions held on the admission days. Data were collected using the Ways of Coping Questionnaire by Lazarus and Folkman. A significant difference was observed between the pretest and posttest mean values in all the coping subscales, which suggests the effect of spiritual care on adolescents' coping with cancer, but no significant differences were observed between the posttest and follow-up mean values, which shows the importance of the continuity of spiritual care in adolescent patients. According to the results, spirituality-based care programs offered by nurses can positively affect adolescents' coping with cancer and improve their overall coping.

The Effect of Spiritual Care on the Spiritual Health of Adolescents with Cancer: A Pre-Experimental Study

“…The results of this study showed that the scores of existential spiritual health, religious-spiritual health score and overall spiritual health of adolescents increased after the intervention and showed a positive effect of the intervention on spiritual health. In this regard, the results of some studies show the positive effects of spiritual care on adaptation (24), anxiety (32) and self-confidence (33), which are in line with the present study.…”

“…Given the lack of title-related study and considering the role of religious beliefs and spirituality in coping with crises and illnesses, the mean and standard deviation score taken by Torabi et al (24) study were considered the closest and the most relevant study for the sample size used. The mean and standard deviation (SD) was the direct adaptation index score in Torabi et al (24) study as 5.59 ± 122.7.…”

“…Spiritual care training was performed as face-to-face and individualized, based on patient need, next to the patient's bed, including four consecutive sessions (twice a week) for 45 minutes per session, after the visit of the physician and before chemotherapy and was administered only to the patient at 10 AM. The spiritual care program was designed based on the intervention of other researchers and with the help of defining the concept of spirituality (24,31). After the end of the fourth session of spiritual care intervention, spiritual health questionnaire was completed.…”

“…Moreover, the improved qol increased interpersonal support, decreased severity of psychological symptoms, then increased medical outcomes and increased recovery process (22,23). A study by Torabi et al (24) reported that spiritual care is effective in adolescents with cancer. Therefore, the use of coping strategies and mechanisms plays an important role in one's physical and mental health (25).…”

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

“…Participants in this study believed that following medical guidelines and protocols and recognizing and controlling errors and risks could enhance patient safety culture. In this regard, the study by Torabi et al (2018) also emphasizes this claim and believes that the culture of principled reporting of errors versus concealment of errors; punitive culture and inspection versus incentive culture in dealing with errors; evaluating errors with an individual approach to a systemic approach; organizational learning and sharing experiences of errors; establishing an organizational mission based on compliance with patient safety standards and preventive corrective actions, errors, teamwork culture, and compliance with patient legal rights can improve patient safety (28). The results of the study by khoshoei and Salehi (2018) also showed that o cials' views on the process of reporting work errors (the need to report, barriers to reporting and facilitating reporting factors), the response of o cials to work errors (why to deal with error, type of reaction, the need to t the type of error encounter), and solutions to reduce errors (holding training classes, reducing workload (nurse-patient ratio), reducing multiple shifts, reviewing the educational process of nursing students) are some of the ways to increase patient safety (29).…”