Spiritual Needs as Expressed by People Living with HIV: A Systematic Review

It has been previously demonstrated that religiosity and spirituality can help support people living with HIV. Despite this, little work has been undertaken on this theme. Using the PRISMA methodology, we reviewed academic literature from 2008 to 2020 to summarize how people living with HIV define s...

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VerfasserInnen: de Oliveira Valente, Tania Cristina (VerfasserIn) ; da Silva, Leonardo Motta (VerfasserIn) ; Cavalcanti, Ana Paula Rodrigues (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: MDPI 2022
In: Religions
Jahr: 2022, Band: 13, Heft: 4
weitere Schlagwörter:B HIV
B spiritual needs
B Literaturbericht 2008-2020
B health and culture
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Zusammenfassung:It has been previously demonstrated that religiosity and spirituality can help support people living with HIV. Despite this, little work has been undertaken on this theme. Using the PRISMA methodology, we reviewed academic literature from 2008 to 2020 to summarize how people living with HIV define spiritual needs. We found fifty-nine distinct types of approach that were related to this theme and were grouped into four main categories: religious needs, social needs, existential needs, and emotional needs. Religious needs were more frequently cited, including individual prayers, the ingestion of miraculous medicines, and so on. The study calls attention to the concept’s multidimensionality and the cultural differences in the included papers. It reveals the need of each culture to research, to find an adequate meaning of spirituality, and to cater to the spiritual needs for people living with HIV as part of their healthcare, before setting health policies.
ISSN:2077-1444
Enthält:Enthalten in: Religions
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3390/rel13040342