The effect of applying Spiritual Care Model on well-being and quality of care in cancer patients
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE
The effect of applying Spiritual Care Model on well-being and quality of care in cancer patients Mojtaba Ghorbani 1 & Eesa Mohammadi 1
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Reza Aghabozorgi 2 & Monir Ramezani 3
Received: 9 July 2020 / Accepted: 11 September 2020 # Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Purpose The study was an attempt to explore the effect of applying spiritual model of nursing care on spiritual well-being and quality of spiritual care in cancer patients. Method A quasi-experimental study, the present inquiry was carried out with control and intervention groups with participation of 72 patients and 63 nurses in an advanced center in Iran. The Spiritual Care Model (SCM) was designed by the researchers in this study and was performed on the intervention group by nurses after they received proper training. The data were collected using Demographic Information Questionnaire, Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWBS), and Spiritual Care Delivery Rating Scale (SCDRS) in pre-intervention and post-intervention stages and were analyzed with SPSS v.16. Results Before the intervention, the means for spiritual well-being and the quality of spiritual care were not significantly different for the intervention and control groups (p < 0.05). After the intervention, i.e., upon discharge from the hospital, the mean of spiritual well-being in the intervention group was significantly higher than that of the control group (p < 0.001). Based on the opinions of both nurses and patients, the mean of the spiritual care quality was significantly higher in the intervention group in comparison to that in the control group once the intervention was over (p < 0.001). Conclusion Given the positive effect of the SCM on enhancing the spiritual care quality and improving the patients’ spiritual well-being, it is recommended that the SCM be used as a proper guideline and as a model for boosting nurses’ professional performance in spiritual care. Keywords Nursing . Quality of care . Spiritual care model . Spiritual well-being . Cancer patient
Introduction Cancer is of the gravest health concerns in many parts of the world and the prime cause of death in developing countries [1]. It is expected that cancer cases rise by about 70% over the next two decades [2]. This disease is the third biggest cause of death in Iran, where there are currently 30,000 cancer-related * Eesa Mohammadi [email protected] Mojtaba Ghorbani [email protected] 1
Department of Nursing, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
2
Khansari Hospital and Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran
3
Nursing and Midwifery Care Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
deaths and where 80,000 new cases are diagnosed with cancer every year [3]. Cancer is a chronic disease that requires long-term treatment and care due to aggravating symptoms which cannot be completely suppressed [4]. Diagnosis with a life-threatening disease such as
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