Community Mental Health Nursing Consultation in a Public Bathhouse: A Spiritual Coping Resource

(1) Background: The spiritual dimension’s importance in health/disease processes is widely recognized, also being demonstrated by scientific evidence. Hence, its study is crucial, particularly with respect to a Mental health nursing consultation occurring in a community resource, such as a public ba...

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Authors: Simões Figueiredo, Amélia (Author) ; Ferrito, Cândida (Author) ; Medeiros-Garcia, Lurdes (Author) ; Neves-Amado, João (Author) ; Rasquilho Vidal, Teresa (Author) ; Roldán-Merino, Juan (Author) ; Sarreira-Santos, Alexandra (Author) ; Vollrath Ramirez, Antonia (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2020]
In: Religions
Year: 2020, Volume: 11, Issue: 11
Further subjects:B Spirituality
B nursing assessment
B public bathhouse
B Vulnerability
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Summary:(1) Background: The spiritual dimension’s importance in health/disease processes is widely recognized, also being demonstrated by scientific evidence. Hence, its study is crucial, particularly with respect to a Mental health nursing consultation occurring in a community resource, such as a public bathhouse. This study aims to identify the nursing interventions of spiritual nature developed over 5 years in the abovementioned setting, thus characterizing the Portuguese reality; (2) Methods: Observational, cross-sectional and quantitative study, based on a sample comprising all users who attended a community Mental health nursing consultation, from March 2015, to 31 December 2019; (3) Results: A total of 205 nursing appointments were performed, from which emerged a set of 346 diagnoses, resulting in 455 nursing interventions. Of the latter, some deserve to be highlighted, due to a greater prevalence: “listening” (61; 13%), “supporting” (38; 8%), “promoting self-esteem” (37; 8%), “monitoring vital signs” (31; 7%), and “identifying attitude towards care” (25; 5%); (4) Conclusions: even though some of the interventions performed during the consultations were associated with the spiritual dimension, the collected data points towards a need for new diagnoses and nursing interventions, namely, those which may help mitigate spiritual distress.
ISSN:2077-1444
Contains:Enthalten in: Religions
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3390/rel11110618