کنگره بین المللی رویکردهای نوین سبک زندگی، پیشگیری و درمان سرطان

صفحه اصلی / اولین کنگره بین المللی رویکردهای نوین سبک زندگی، پیشگیری و درمان سرطان

مراقبت معنوی در بیماران مبتلا به سرطان و نقش پرستار: مقاله مروری

نویسندگان :

سیده مریم موسوی (دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد خوراسگان) , سیما ودائی (دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد خوراسگان)

کلمات کلیدی :

cancer،Spiritual Care،Role of Nurses،oncology،religious

چکیده :

Introduction: Cancer is the second biggest cause of death worldwide. Suffering from cancer, long-term treatments and fear of the future can affect the physical, social and emotional performance of the patients. Therefore, patients and their families can enter a cycle of mental problems and start the process of searching for meaning in life. These conditions also increase the spiritual needs of the patients and failure to answer these needs can result in mental problems and subsequent consequences. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines spirituality as the fourth dimension of health and suggests it is an important element in patient management. It is believed that spirituality, as one of the essential dimensions of care, can result in decreased stress and anxiety and improve the quality of life in cancer patients. Therefore, the current study aims to investigate the effect of spiritual care on cancer patients and the role of nurses in this care. Methodology: The current study is a review study where the researchers searched various databases such as Google Scholar, Science Direct, PubMed, Medline, SID, and Magiran using keywords of “Spiritual Care”, “Religion”, “Neoplasm [mesh]”, “Oncology Nursing” and “Oncology”, “Malignancy [mesh]”, “Cancer [mesh]”, “Spirituality” and “[Mesh]” in 5 years from 2017 to 2022. Discussion: Spirituality and religion are coping methods for cancer patients. The results indicated that patients are willing to use spiritual cases. Spiritual welfare was inversely proportional to the mental disorder factors such as depression, hopelessness, and suicidal thoughts in patients. In the investigated studies, there was a positive correlation between spirituality and quality of life and a negative correlation with mental distress. Based on the role of spirituality, it was emphasized that spirituality and religion had a significant effect on the quality of life of cancer patients and that spirituality is often strengthened after a cancer diagnosis to improve the quality of life. Unfortunately, this factor is often ignored by the majority of healthcare experts. Conclusion: Spiritual care is a unique aspect of care which cannot be replaced with religious or sociopsychological care and aims to answer essential questions such as the meaning behind life, pain, suffering and death. Spiritual care is based on empathy, care, and kindness between patients and nurses. This care emphasizes the personal impotence of patients, answers to their religious and non-religious needs and using spiritual care can help maintain a person’s dignity up to the moment of death. The spiritual care knowledge and skills of nurses are often insufficient for answering the spiritual needs of the patients. Therefore, nurses, for improving the quality of spiritual care provided for patients, require immediate training in this field. One of the spiritual care training protocols for nurses is based on the concept of mutual growth with patients and improves the spiritual well-being and spiritual care competencies in nurses. Therefore, it can be said that the missing link in providing spiritual care for patients with difficult-to-treat diseases such as cancer is the lack of an educational plan and clinical guidelines for medical staff, especially nurses

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