Exploring the Meaning of Spirituality and Spiritual Care with Help From Viktor Frankl

Britt, Katherine Carroll; Acton, Gayle J.

doi:10.1177/08980101211026776

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“…Spiritual care assists people, notably in difficult conditions, by boosting spiritual issues [ 9 ]. Spiritual care tries to overcome clients’ fears, worries, and suffering in an attempt to lessen stress, give hope, and inspire clients to achieve an inner calm [ 10 ].…”

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Nurse’s spiritual care competence in Ethiopia: A multicenter cross-sectional study

Seid

Abdo

2022

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Background Many health care professionals emphasize that spirituality is an important factor in overall health. Although spiritual practices are vital to health, spirituality has received little emphasis in nursing. Hence, the study’s purpose has been to evaluate the current state of spiritual care competence and the factors that influence it among nurses in Southwest Ethiopia. Methods From July 1 to 20, 2021, nurses at five hospitals in southwest Ethiopia were enrolled in a facility-based cross-sectional study. The study subjects were chosen using a systematic random sampling. A self-administered questionnaire was undertaken to gather the data. Epi Data 3.1 was used to code the dataset, and SPSS version 25 was used for analysis. To identify factors associated with spiritual care competence, researchers performed bivariate and multivariable linear regression analyses. The significance level was set at p<0.05. Results Three hundred sixty-seven nurses attended in the study, giving a 91.06, percent rate of response. The mean spiritual care competence score among healthcare professionals was 3.14±0.74. Age (p<0.05), and training in spiritual care (p<0.05) were significantly associated with spiritual care competence. Conclusions Spiritual care competence was moderate among the nurses. Spiritual care competence varies in accordance with a number of factors, including age, and training in spiritual care. Nurses are better suited to focus on the spiritual health of clients, which necessitates the provision of spiritual care competence training for nurses.

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Nurse’s spiritual care competence in Ethiopia: A multicenter cross-sectional study

Seid

Abdo

2022

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“…In the cancer literature, MIL differentiates between meaning as the comprehension of an adverse event and the reasons it has occurred, which is typical of the rst stage of the experience, and meaning as the signi cance of the philosophical and spiritual implications, as well as the existential consequences of the traumatic experience, which is typical of later stages [18]. The rst meaning is related to the cancer diagnosis, challenging the set of personal beliefs [6] and questioning the life purpose, identity, and actions triggered by personal values [13] as patients try to incorporate the experience of the disease into their life scheme [19].…”

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Longitudinal evolution of meaning in life and its relationship with coping strategies in Spanish patients with a breast cancer diagnosis

Marco

Castejón

Isern

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Changes in Meaning in life (MIL) have been shown to be particularly important when people face very stressful events such as receiving a cancer diagnosis and treatment. Active coping strategies have been related to higher levels of MIL in people with a diagnosis of cancer. Objective: To explore the evolution of MIL in a sample of cancer patients at the time of their diagnosis and three, six, and nine months after surgery, and identify the association between coping strategies three months after diagnosis (T2) and levels of MIL at the different moments in the cancer process (T1-T4). Methods: We assessed MIL at diagnosis and three, six, and nine months after surgery, and coping strategies (fighting spirit, anxious preoccupation, hopelessness, fatalism, and cognitive avoidance) three months after surgery, in 115 women with a diagnosis of Stage I-III breast cancer. Results: We found higher levels of MIL nine months after surgery, compared to previous stages. MIL correlated significantly and positively with a fighting spirit and cognitive avoidance, and negatively with hopelessness and anxious preoccupation. Conclusions: Results highlight the importance of coping in relation to meaning-making processes in cancer. Meaning-centred interventions could help patients who are in the process of coping with the cancer experience.

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“…This may be due to the fact that many interpersonal needs are not met due to di cult social contacts. The meaning of life according to Viktor E. Frankl is a state of subjective satisfaction of the individual resulting from purposeful and value-oriented actions (19,20). In other words, it constitutes the essence and purpose of human existence, the vocation of man, which justi es the toil of life and makes it worth living (21)(22)(23).…”

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Feelings of loneliness and meaning in life in subjects with Asperger's syndrome

Sipowicz

Pietras

Kosmalski

2023

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Introduction: Subjects with Asperger's syndrome without intellectual disabilities have significant difficulties in establishing social relationships despite their IQ being within the normal range. One of the effects of social deficit is depression. The question arises whether loneliness and dimensions of meaning in life correlate with the severity of depression and whether the average severity of depression, loneliness and dimensions of meaning in life differentiate the following groups: people with Asperger's syndrome and depression, people with Asperger's syndrome without depression, people with depression without Asperger's syndrome and healthy subjects. Material & Methods: The study was conducted on a total of 170 people, including: 43 people with Asperger's syndrome and depression, 41 people with Asperger's syndrome without depression, 40 people with depression without Asperger's syndrome and 46 healthy people (without Asperger's syndrome and without depression). All were administered a demographic survey, Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II), De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale (DJGLS), Life Attitude Profile-Revised (LAP-R). Asperger's syndrome and depressive episodes were diagnosed on the basis of ICD-10 research criteria still applicable in Poland. Results:In the group with Asperger's syndrome and depression the highest levels of loneliness and the lowest values of the dimensions of the sense of meaning in life, except for the acceptance of death, were observed. This result was significantly different from the results obtained in the other study groups. Both in people with Asperger's syndrome without depression and in people with depression without Asperger's syndrome, the values of the dimensions of the sense of meaning in life and the level of loneliness differ significantly from the results obtained in the control group. The BDI-II scores correlated positively with the loneliness values and negatively with the sense of meaning in life values in all groups. Discussion: The results indicate that both suffering from depression and having Asperger's syndrome are associated with an increased sense of loneliness and a reduced sense of meaning in life. People with Asperger's syndrome and depression have the highest values of loneliness and the lowest values of dimensions of the sense of meaning of life compared to the other groups studied. The limitation of the work is the deliberate selection of groups, because it would be interesting to answer the question whether Asperger's syndrome is a risk factor for depression in the population.

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Exploring the Meaning of Spirituality and Spiritual Care with Help From Viktor Frankl

Cited by 10 publications

References 56 publications

Nurse’s spiritual care competence in Ethiopia: A multicenter cross-sectional study

Nurse’s spiritual care competence in Ethiopia: A multicenter cross-sectional study

Longitudinal evolution of meaning in life and its relationship with coping strategies in Spanish patients with a breast cancer diagnosis

Feelings of loneliness and meaning in life in subjects with Asperger's syndrome

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