The meaning of spirituality in the transience of life

Isabel Cristina De Oliveira Arrieira,Maira Buss Thofehrn,Daniela Habekost Cardoso,Julieta Carriconde Fripp,Camila Rose Guadalupe Barcelos Schwonke,Viviane Marten Milbrath

doi:10.5935/1414-8145.20170012

Abstract

Objetivo: Comprender el sentido de la espiritualidad para la persona en cuidados paliativos. Metodos: Estudio con abordaje cualitativo, fundamentado en la fenomenologia existencialista y referencial de Viktor Frankl. Participaron nueve personas en cuidados paliativos atendidas en domicilio. Informaciones colectadas a traves de la observacion y de entrevistas realizadas entre junio y octubre de 2014, grabadas, transcritas y transformadas en texto interpretado con abordaje fenomenologica hermeneutica. Resultados: Emergieron las siguientes categorias: sentido de continuidad de la vida; sensacion de alivio del sufrimiento; sentido de naturalidad de la muerte y un sentido de apreciacion de la vida. Conclusion: Para obtener la integralidad de la atencion, se necesita la inclusion de la espiritualidad en la practica asistencial. La espiritualidad proporciona el encuentro existencial entre la persona en cuidados paliativos y los profesionales que la atienden en su totalidad.

Highlights

Conceptual changes have been observed, which are understood as advances that come from the expansion of the health concept through the establishment of new guidelines proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO)
It is known that the spiritual needs of people with diseases that threaten life are often not considered by health professionals, due to their lack of preparation
Sense of continuity of life For people who are receiving palliative care, spirituality gives a sense of continuity when they express that life does not end with the death of the body, including pointing out that with the physical weakening they feel the strengthening of the spirit and envisage death as a passage to another place

Summary

Introduction

Conceptual changes have been observed, which are understood as advances that come from the expansion of the health concept through the establishment of new guidelines proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO). Sense of continuity of life For people who are receiving palliative care, spirituality gives a sense of continuity when they express that life does not end with the death of the body, including pointing out that with the physical weakening they feel the strengthening of the spirit and envisage death as a passage to another place.

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