ArticleInternational journal of medical informatics2024
The impact of spiritual care delivered by nurses on patients' comfort: A propensity score matched cohort utilizing electronic health record data.
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Abstract
backgroundSpiritual care has been associated with better health outcomes. Despite increasing evidence of the benefits of spiritual care for older patients coping with illness and aggressive treatment, the role of spirituality is not well understood and implemented. Nurses, as frontline holistic healthcare providers, are in a position to address patients' spiritual needs and support them in finding meaning in life. This study aimed to identify spiritual care by analyzing nursing data and to compare the psychological and physical comfort between older chronically ill patients who received spiritual care versus those who did not receive spiritual care. MATERIAL AND
methodsA propensity score matched cohort utilizing nursing care plan data was used to construct balanced groups based on patient characteristics at admission. 45 older patients (≥65 years) with chronic illnesses received spiritual care with measured psychological or physical comfort and 90 matched controls. To ensure the robustness of our results, two sensitivity analyses were performed. Group comparisons were performed to assess the average treatment effect of spiritual care on psychological and physical comfort outcomes.
resultsThe mean psychological comfort was 4.3 (SD = 0.5) for spiritual care receivers and 3.9 (SD = 0.9) for non-receivers. Regression analysis showed that spiritual care was associated with better psychological comfort (estimate = 0.479, std. error = 0.225, p = 0.041). While its effect on physical comfort was not statistically significant (estimate = -0.265, std. error = 0.234, p = 0.261). This study provides suggestive evidence of the positive impact of nurses' spiritual care in improving psychological comfort for older patients with chronic illnesses.
conclusionUsing interoperable nursing data, our findings suggest that spiritual care improves psychological comfort in older patients facing illness. This finding suggests that nurses may integrate spiritual care into their usual care to support patients experiencing distress.
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