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Abstract

Spirituality is the most unknown aspect of palliative care despite being the need that is most altered in the last moments of life. Objective. To identify on the one hand the spiritual needs of patients who are at the end of life and on the other hand, the way in which nursing professionals can work to provide effective accompaniment in this process. Method. A qualitative study was conducted which applied different data collection techniques. This was done to describe the phenomenon from a holistic perspective in relation to experts’ perceptions of the competencies required by health professionals and palliative patients’ spiritual needs. Semi-structured interviews were conducted within both populations. In order to analyze the qualitative data collected through interviews, discourse was analyzed according to the Taylor–Bodgan model and processed using Atlas.ti software. Results. Three well-differentiated lines of argument are extracted from the discourse in each of the groups, on the one hand in the group of patients they define the concept of spirituality, system of values and beliefs, and the Factors that influence the spirituality of patients at the end of life (differentiating palliative care areas/other areas) and on the other, the professionals agree with the patients in the line of argument of concept of spirituality although they define more metaphysical categories and the other two lines of argument that result are the spiritual attention in this process and the need for formation in spirituality. Conclusions. The provision of spiritual care gives meaning to the actions of nursing professionals when it comes to providing end-of-life care, achieving holistic care, humanizing death, and promoting a dignified end.

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Title
Spirituality in Patients at the End of Life—Is It Necessary? A Qualitative Approach to the Protagonists
Author
García-Navarro, E Begoña 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Medina-Ortega, Alicia 2 ; Sonia García Navarro 3 

 Nursing Department, University of Huelva, 21007 Huelva, Spain; [email protected] (A.M.-O.); [email protected] (S.G.N.); Social Studies and Social Intervention Research Center (ESEIS), Contemporary Thinking and Innovation for Social Development Research Center (COIDESO), Faculty of Nursing, University of Huelva, 21007 Huelva, Spain; Coping In the End of Life Reseach Center (AFLV), INVESTIGA+, Junta de Andalucía, 41008 Sevilla, Spain 
 Nursing Department, University of Huelva, 21007 Huelva, Spain; [email protected] (A.M.-O.); [email protected] (S.G.N.) 
 Nursing Department, University of Huelva, 21007 Huelva, Spain; [email protected] (A.M.-O.); [email protected] (S.G.N.); Coping In the End of Life Reseach Center (AFLV), INVESTIGA+, Junta de Andalucía, 41008 Sevilla, Spain; United Clinical Management (U.G.C. Los Rosales), Distrito Huelva-Costa-Condado-Campiña, 21007 Huelva, Spain 
First page
227
Publication year
2022
Publication date
2022
Publisher
MDPI AG
ISSN
1661-7827
e-ISSN
1660-4601
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2618220286
Copyright
© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.