RT Journal Article
T1 Spirituality in Patients at the End of Life—Is It Necessary? A Qualitative Approach to the Protagonists
A1 García Navarro, Esperanza Begoña
A1 Medina Ortega, Alicia
A1 García Navarro, Sonia
AB Spirituality is the most unknown aspect of palliative care despite being the need that ismost altered in the last moments of life. Objective. To identify on the one hand the spiritual needs ofpatients who are at the end of life and on the other hand, the way in which nursing professionals canwork to provide effective accompaniment in this process. Method. A qualitative study was conductedwhich applied different data collection techniques. This was done to describe the phenomenonfrom a holistic perspective in relation to experts’ perceptions of the competencies required by healthprofessionals and palliative patients’ spiritual needs. Semi-structured interviews were conductedwithin 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 ofthe groups, on the one hand in the group of patients they define the concept of spirituality, systemof 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 thepatients in the line of argument of concept of spirituality although they define more metaphysicalcategories and the other two lines of argument that result are the spiritual attention in this processand the need for formation in spirituality. Conclusions. The provision of spiritual care gives meaningto the actions of nursing professionals when it comes to providing end-of-life care, achieving holisticcare, humanizing death, and promoting a dignified end
PB MDPI
SN 1660-4601 (electrónico)
YR 2021
FD 2021-12
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/21130
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/21130
LA eng
NO García-Navarro, E. B., Medina-Ortega, A., & García Navarro, S. (2021). Spirituality in Patients at the End of Life—Is It Necessary? A Qualitative Approach to the Protagonists. In International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (Vol. 19, Issue 1, p. 227). MDPI AG. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19010227
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 31 may 2026