ArticleBMC palliative care2021
A meaning-centered spiritual care training program for hospice palliative care teams in South Korea: development and preliminary evaluation.
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- Effectiveness of psychological interventions for compassion fatigue: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of occupational health · 2024Pooled it
- Optimizing hospice care: A scoping review of staffing strategies to enhance practice.International journal of nursing studies advances · 2026Review
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- Spiritual Care Guide in Hospice∙Palliative Care.Journal of hospice and palliative care · 2023Review
- Reflections on experiential training in meaning-centered psychotherapy: How MCP ended up facilitating professional wellbeing.Palliative & supportive care · 2023Article
- Divergent patterns of confrontation with death using the Anticipated Farewell to Existence Questionnaire (AFEQT): a cross-sectional comparative study of four samples with increasing proximity to death.BMC palliative care · 2021Article
- Correction to: A meaning-centered spiritual care training program for hospice palliative care teams in South Korea: development and preliminary evaluation.BMC palliative care · 2021Article
- Spiritual Intelligence and Spiritual Care in Nursing Practice: A Bibliometric Review.Indian journal of palliative careReview
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Abstract
backgroundSpirituality 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).
methodsThe 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).
resultsWe 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).
conclusionsThe McSCTP-HPCTs is suitable for use in clinical settings and provides evidence for assessing the SCCs of HPCTs.
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