Influence of Palliative Care Training on Last-Year Nursing Department Students’ Perception on Regarding Spirituality and Spiritual Care: A Single-Group Pretest–Posttest Intervention Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 860-869 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hüsna Özveren ◽  
Kamile Kırca
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Intervention Study ◽  
Single Group ◽  
Care Training ◽  
Nursing Department

scholarly journals A meaning-centered spiritual care training program for hospice palliative care teams in South Korea: development and preliminary evaluation

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyung-Ah Kang ◽  
Shin-Jeong Kim ◽  
Do-Bong Kim ◽  
Myung-Hee Park ◽  
Soo-Jin Yoon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Test Point ◽  
Preliminary Evaluation ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Palliative Care Teams ◽  
Care Training ◽  
Hospice Palliative Care

Abstract Background Spirituality is a fundamental, intrinsic aspect of human beings and should be a core component of quality palliative care. There is an urgent need to train hospice palliative care teams (HPCTs) to enhance their ability to provide spiritual care. This study aimed to develop and evaluate a meaning-centered, spiritual care training program (McSCTP) for HPCTs (McSCTP-HPCTs). Methods The modules’ content was informed by Viktor Frankl’s meaning-centered logotherapy with its emphasis on spiritual resources, as well as the spiritual care model of the Interprofessional Spiritual Care Education Curriculum (ISPEC). Following development, we conducted a pilot test with four nurses. We used the results to inform the final program, which we tested in an intervention involving 13 members of HPCTs. We took measurements using self-administered questionnaires at three points before and after the intervention. Using descriptive statistics, the Mann-Whitney U test, and the Kruskal-Wallis test, we analyzed the participants’ demographic and career-related characteristics, as well as the degree of variance between three outcome variables: compassion fatigue (CF), spiritual care competencies (SCCs), and spiritual care therapeutics (SCT). Results We divided the McSCTP-HPCTs into five modules. Module I: The HPCTs’ SCC evaluation, understanding the major concepts of spiritual care and logotherapy; Modules II-IV: Meaning-centered interventions (MCIs) related to spiritual needs (existential, relational, and transcendental/religious); Module V: The process of meaning-centered spiritual care. The preliminary evaluation revealed significant differences in all three outcome variables at the posttest point (CF, p = 0.037; SCCs, p = 0.005; SCT, p = 0.002). At the four-week follow-up test point, we only found statistical significance with the SCCs (p = 0.006). Conclusions The McSCTP-HPCTs is suitable for use in clinical settings and provides evidence for assessing the SCCs of HPCTs.

scholarly journals Spiritual Care Training for Palliative Care Fellows (QI726)

2021 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 665-666
Author(s):  
Edward Penate ◽  
A. Mark Bradley ◽  
Joshua Hauser
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Care Training

Facilitating the Provision of Quality Spiritual Care in Palliative Care

2013 ◽  
Vol 67 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 37-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hillel Bodek
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Social Suffering ◽  
Critical Component ◽  
Consensus Panel ◽  
Hospice Movement ◽  
Total Pain ◽  
Care Training ◽  
Core Principle

In 1948, Dame Cicely Saunders, the founder of the modern hospice movement, established a core principle of palliative care, Total Pain, which is defined as physical, spiritual, psychological, and social suffering. In 2009, a consensus panel (Puchalski, Ferrell, Virani, Otis-Green, Baird, Bull, et al., 2009) was convened to address the important issue of integrating spirituality in palliative care, which led to renewed efforts to focus on spiritual care as a critical component of quality palliative care. This project is a combination of advocacy for the importance of spiritual care, training chaplains, seminarians, community clergy, and healthcare professionals in palliative care, and creating a spiritual care curriculum which can be self-taught or taught to members of transdisciplinary teams.

Effect of a spiritual care training program for staff on patient outcomes

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 434-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grace Meijuan Yang ◽  
Yung Ying Tan ◽  
Yin Bun Cheung ◽  
Weng Kit Lye ◽  
Sock Hui Amy Lim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Palliative Care ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Intervention Group ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Spiritual Well Being ◽  
Care Training

ABSTRACTObjective:Physicians and nurses do not assess spirituality routinely, even though spiritual care is a vital part of palliative care for patients with an advanced serious illness. The aim of our study was to determine whether a training program for healthcare professionals on spirituality and the taking of a spiritual history would result in improved patient quality of life (QoL) and spiritual well-being.Method:This was a cluster-controlled trial of a spiritual care training program for palliative care doctors and nurses. Three of seven clinical teams (clusters) received the intervention, while the other four served as controls. Included patients were newly referred to the palliative care service, had an estimated survival of more than one month, and were aware of their diagnosis and prognosis. The primary outcome measure was the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy–Spiritual Well-Being (FACIT–Sp) patient-reported questionnaire, which patients completed at two timepoints. Total FACIT–Sp score includes the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy–General (FACT–G) questionnaire, which measures overall quality of life, as well as a spiritual well-being score.Results:Some 144 patients completed the FACIT–Sp at both timepoints—74 in the control group and 70 in the intervention group. The change in overall quality of life, measured by change in FACT–G scores, was 3.89 points (95% confidence interval [CI95%] = –0.42 to 8.19, p = 0.076) higher in the intervention group than in the control group. The difference between the intervention and control groups in terms of change in spiritual well-being was 0.32 (CI95% = –2.23 to 2.88, p = 0.804).Significance of results:A brief spiritual care training program can possibly help bring about enhanced improvement of global patient QoL, but the effect on patients' spiritual well-being was not as evident in our participants. Further study with larger sample sizes is needed to allow for more definite conclusions to be drawn.

scholarly journals A Meaning-centered spiritual care training program for hospice palliative care team in South Korea: development and preliminary evaluation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shin-Jeong Kim ◽  
Kyung-Ah Kang ◽  
Do-Bong Kim ◽  
Myung-Hee Park ◽  
Soo-Jin Yoon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Developmental Model ◽  
Preliminary Evaluation ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Palliative Care Teams ◽  
Care Training ◽  
Hospice Palliative Care

Abstract Background Spirituality is a fundamental and intrinsic aspect of human beings and should be a core component of quality palliative care. There is an urgent need for training of hospice palliative care teams (HPCTs) to enhance their competency to provide spiritual care. The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate a meaning-centered spiritual care training program for hospice palliative care teams (McSCTP-HPCT). Methods In this methodological study we developed a training program for HPCTs, using the ADDIE educational content developmental model. The final training program comprised five modules. The modules’ content was informed by Viktor Frankl’s meaning-centered logotherapy with its emphasis on spiritual resources as well as the spiritual care model of ISPEC (Interprofessional Spiritual Care Education Curriculum). Following development, a pilot test was conducted with four nurses. The results of the pilot were used to inform the final program. The final program was tested in an intervention involving 13 hospice palliative care nurses. Measurements using self-administered questionnaires were taken at three points before and after the intervention. Participants’ demographic and career-related characteristics and the degree of variance between outcome variables (compassion fatigue [CF], spiritual care competency [SCC], and spiritual care therapeutics [SCT]) were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, and one-way ANOVA. Results The MCTP-HPCT was developed into five modules. Module I: The HPCT’s SCC evaluation, understanding the major concepts of spiritual care and logotherapy, Module II-IV: Meaning-centered intervention related to the spiritual needs (existential, relational, and transcendental/religious), Module V: The process of meaning-centered spiritual care. The preliminary evaluation showed a significant differences in all three outcome variables at the first measure point (CF, p = 0.037; SCC, p = 0.005; SCT, p = 0.002). At the second measure point statistical significance was found only with SCC (p = 0.006). Conclusions The MCTP-HPCT developed in this study is suitable for use in clinical settings and provides evidence for evaluating the spiritual care competency of HPCTs.

scholarly journals Training hospital staff on spiritual care in palliative care influences patient-reported outcomes: Results of a quasi-experimental study

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (8) ◽  
pp. 743-753 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joep van de Geer ◽  
Marieke Groot ◽  
Richtsje Andela ◽  
Carlo Leget ◽  
Jelle Prins ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Patient Reported Outcomes ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Physical Symptoms ◽  
Spiritual Needs ◽  
Multidisciplinary Teams ◽  
Spiritual Distress ◽  
Patient Reported ◽  
Care Training

Background: Spiritual care is reported to be important to palliative patients. There is an increasing need for education in spiritual care. Aim: To measure the effects of a specific spiritual care training on patients’ reports of their perceived care and treatment. Design: A pragmatic controlled trial conducted between February 2014 and March 2015. Setting/participants: The intervention was a specific spiritual care training implemented by healthcare chaplains to eight multidisciplinary teams in six hospitals on regular wards in which patients resided in both curative and palliative trajectories. In total, 85 patients were included based on the Dutch translation of the Supportive and Palliative Care Indicators Tool. Data were collected in the intervention and control wards pre- and post-training using questionnaires on physical symptoms, spiritual distress, involvement and attitudes (Spiritual Attitude and Involvement List) and on the perceived focus of healthcare professionals on patients’ spiritual needs. Results: All 85 patients had high scores on spiritual themes and involvement. Patients reported that attention to their spiritual needs was very important. We found a significant ( p = 0.008) effect on healthcare professionals’ attention to patients’ spiritual and existential needs and a significant ( p = 0.020) effect in favour of patients’ sleep. No effect on the spiritual distress of patients or their proxies was found. Conclusion: The effects of spiritual care training can be measured using patient-reported outcomes and seemed to indicate a positive effect on the quality of care. Future research should focus on optimizing the spiritual care training to identify the most effective elements and developing strategies to ensure long-term positive effects. This study was registered at the Dutch Trial Register: NTR4559.

scholarly journals Effects of spiritual care training for palliative care professionals

2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Wasner ◽  
Christine Longaker ◽  
Martin Johannes Fegg ◽  
Gian Domenico Borasio
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Care Training

Palliative und spirituelle Aspekte der psychosozialen Onkologie

2011 ◽  
Vol 30 (03) ◽  
pp. 158-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Frick ◽  
P. Heußner
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Spiritual Care

ZusammenfassungSpiritual Care und palliative Care machen sowohl auf Seiten des Patienten als auch des therapeutischen Teams eine mehrdimensionale Blickweise erforderlich, die die Grenzen des rein Somatischen überschreitet. Ihnen gemeinsam ist die Sorge für den Betroffenen – eine Perspektive, die der Medizin immanent sein könnte, aber nicht immer als selbstverständliche, nicht zu delegierende Aufgabe angesehen wird. Dabei gilt der Grundsatz der Subsidiarität: Priorität haben immer die Bewältigungsressourcen des Patienten und seines Umfeldes, die von den professionell und ehrenamtlich Helfenden unterstützt werden. In der Herausforderung dieses Arbeitsumfeldes geraten die Professionellen unweigerlich in die Konfrontation mit der eigenen Endlichkeit des Lebens, den damit verbundenen existenziellen Ängsten und den eigenen Widerständen. Diese Auseinandersetzung mit der Unheimlichkeit des Lebensendes, ihr respektvoll zu begegnen und nicht angstvoll zu verdrängen, kann im positiven Sinne als Burnout-Prophylaxe wirksam werden.

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