Evaluation of the Spiritual Care Needs of Patients with Cancer in a Chemotherapy Unit in Turkey

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This study was conducted to determine the spiritual care needs of cancer patients receiving chemotherapy. A cross-sectional descriptive design was used to analyze a total of 104 patients at a university hospital in Turkey. The data were collected using the Spiritual Care Needs Scale. The mean age of the patients participating in the study was 61.0 (10.2). It was determined that 31.7% of the patients stated that the concepts of spirituality and spiritual care are related to religion and worship. As a result, it was found that the patients receiving chemotherapy had high-spiritual care needs. The dimensions in which the spiritual needs of the patients were remarkably high were belief and spiritual practices, being in peace and security, the love and support of their relatives and being informed about health. The spiritual care need score of the patients increased significantly with marital status (p = 0.001), having children (p = 0.002), having a chronic disease (p = 0.04) and having an undergraduate/graduate level education (p = 0.01). Nurses should be aware of patient's spiritual needs, plan patient-specific spiritual care practices, conduct more studies on the effects of spiritual care on the patient and family and create guidelines for spiritual care practices in patients receiving chemotherapy in Turkey.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:63

Enthalten in:

Journal of religion and health - 63(2024), 2 vom: 01. Apr., Seite 1457-1474

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kırca, Kamile [VerfasserIn]
Özveren, Hüsna [VerfasserIn]
Bağcı, Sema [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cancer
Chemotherapy
Journal Article
Oncology
Spiritual coping
Spirituality

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Date Completed 27.03.2024

Date Revised 03.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s10943-023-01876-7

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM362880182