Religion and spirituality: their impacts on patients in palliative care: an integrative review
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Espiritualidade. Religião. Cuidados PaliativosAbstract
Chronic diseases are undergoing a process of increase on a global scale, which makes it necessary to implement a care model that contemplates the entire process of illness, death and dying. From this perspective, palliative care is part of an emerging modality of comprehensive and multidisciplinary care, including the spirituality of patients with advanced and terminal illnesses. Our objective is to present a literature review designed to identify the impact of religion and spirituality on the follow-up of patients in palliative care. As a methodology, we conducted an Integrative Bibliographic Review of scientific articles published in the main current databases – PubMed, Scielo and Virtual Health Library (VHL). The inclusion criteria were works published in the last ten years (between 2013 and 2023). The study universe consisted of 376 articles related to the topic addressed, of which 15 were included in the sample because they met the inclusion criteria. As a result, we noticed that the analyzed studies pointed to the understanding that in the case of patients in palliative care, these tools are configured as a way for these individuals to deal with terminality, without anguish, reducing the suffering and pain caused by incurable diseases.
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