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Spiritual care from the perspective of family caregivers and nurses in palliative care: a qualitative study

BACKGROUND: The palliative care period not only affects patients but also family caregivers in many ways. Palliative care units are places where the spiritual needs of family caregivers become important. According to a holistic care approach, palliative care nurses should determine the spiritual nee...

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Autores principales: Kurtgöz, Aslı, Edis, Elif Keten
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10601296/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37884938
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12904-023-01286-2
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description BACKGROUND: The palliative care period not only affects patients but also family caregivers in many ways. Palliative care units are places where the spiritual needs of family caregivers become important. According to a holistic care approach, palliative care nurses should determine the spiritual needs of family caregivers and help meet these needs. OBJECTIVE: This study aims at exploring nurses’ and family caregivers’ experiences of spiritual care. METHODS: A phenomenological study was designed in this qualitative research. A total of 10 nurses working in palliative care and 11 family caregivers participated in the study. Nurses’ experiences of delivering spiritual care and family caregivers’ experiences of receiving spiritual care were examined through the in-depth interviewing method on a one-to‐one basis. The data were examined using thematic analysis. RESULTS: Four main themes were obtained by the data analysis: (I) Impacts of being in a palliative care unit; (II) Coping methods; (III) Importance of spirituality and spiritual care; (IV) Spiritual care. The results were presented according to the COREQ criteria. CONCLUSION: Although spiritual care is very necessary for family caregivers, it is not offered sufficiently due to nurse-and institution-related reasons. Palliative care nurses should determine the spiritual needs of family caregivers in line with the holistic care approach. Nurse managers should determine factors preventing nurses from offering spiritual care and create solutions for these factors. The lack of nurses’ knowledge about spiritual care should be resolved by providing continuous training and therefore, nurses’ competencies in spiritual care should be improved. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12904-023-01286-2.
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spelling pubmed-106012962023-10-27 Spiritual care from the perspective of family caregivers and nurses in palliative care: a qualitative study Kurtgöz, Aslı Edis, Elif Keten BMC Palliat Care Research BACKGROUND: The palliative care period not only affects patients but also family caregivers in many ways. Palliative care units are places where the spiritual needs of family caregivers become important. According to a holistic care approach, palliative care nurses should determine the spiritual needs of family caregivers and help meet these needs. OBJECTIVE: This study aims at exploring nurses’ and family caregivers’ experiences of spiritual care. METHODS: A phenomenological study was designed in this qualitative research. A total of 10 nurses working in palliative care and 11 family caregivers participated in the study. Nurses’ experiences of delivering spiritual care and family caregivers’ experiences of receiving spiritual care were examined through the in-depth interviewing method on a one-to‐one basis. The data were examined using thematic analysis. RESULTS: Four main themes were obtained by the data analysis: (I) Impacts of being in a palliative care unit; (II) Coping methods; (III) Importance of spirituality and spiritual care; (IV) Spiritual care. The results were presented according to the COREQ criteria. CONCLUSION: Although spiritual care is very necessary for family caregivers, it is not offered sufficiently due to nurse-and institution-related reasons. Palliative care nurses should determine the spiritual needs of family caregivers in line with the holistic care approach. Nurse managers should determine factors preventing nurses from offering spiritual care and create solutions for these factors. The lack of nurses’ knowledge about spiritual care should be resolved by providing continuous training and therefore, nurses’ competencies in spiritual care should be improved. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12904-023-01286-2. BioMed Central 2023-10-26 /pmc/articles/PMC10601296/ /pubmed/37884938 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12904-023-01286-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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