Psykologiska och religiösa förhållningssätt samt copingstrategier hos patienter i livets slutskede, utifrån intervjuer med själavårdare och personal på hospice
(2014) REVM76 20141Centre for Theology and Religious Studies
- Abstract
- Background: Life near death is difficult foremost for the patient but also for people around the dying person.
Purpose: The purpose of this essay is to investigate palliative-care patients´ psychological and religious approaches and how they cope with their situation that they are dying by interviews of chaplains, pastors, priests and personnel working with dying persons at hospice.
Material and methods: Twelve interviews were done with six hospital chaplains from the Church of Sweden, two hospital pastors from the Methodist Church, one Catholic priest, two nurses and one assistant nurse working at a hospice. From the perspectives of the chaplains from the Church of Sweden, the Methodist Church and the Catholic Church and the nurses and... (More) - Background: Life near death is difficult foremost for the patient but also for people around the dying person.
Purpose: The purpose of this essay is to investigate palliative-care patients´ psychological and religious approaches and how they cope with their situation that they are dying by interviews of chaplains, pastors, priests and personnel working with dying persons at hospice.
Material and methods: Twelve interviews were done with six hospital chaplains from the Church of Sweden, two hospital pastors from the Methodist Church, one Catholic priest, two nurses and one assistant nurse working at a hospice. From the perspectives of the chaplains from the Church of Sweden, the Methodist Church and the Catholic Church and the nurses and the assistant nurse working at hospice, I looked at how palliative-care patients cope with their own situations when they are dying. I analyzed which needs, physical, psychological, social, and spiritual that they seem to have. I studied the needs related to psychological and religious questions for the patients.
Theory: In the essay I employ coping theory. Foremost I use the work of Pargament where he describes religious and secular coping. I also use the coping theory from Ahmadi and I draw on the six S-ROM designed by psychiatrist Avery Weisman. The six S's are self-image, social relationships, context-synthesis summary, self-determination, symptom relief and consent strategies.
Results and conclusions: The hospital church seems to have an important role for the palliative-care patients. According to the interviews, at the end of life, patients want to summarize their lives, come to terms with life, sort out things and relationships that were not good, and they want to have good quality of life. Religion can, at least to some extent, help to accomplish this. The patients seem to get help from both religious and secular coping. Religious coping is linked with religious questions and the secular coping is especially linked with psychological approaches according to the interviews. (Less)
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- author
- Rönnbäck, Charlotte LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- REVM76 20141
- year
- 2014
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- hopplöshet, hopp, mening, övergångsrit, religiösa förhållningssätt, skuld och skam, identitet och personlighet, anhöriga, värdighet, psykologiska förhållningssätt, copingmetod, palliativ vård, hospice, lidande, död, tron, existentiella frågor, sjukhuspräst, sjukhuspastor, sjuksköterska och undersköterska.
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 4448077
- date added to LUP
- 2014-06-03 15:09:58
- date last changed
- 2015-12-14 13:36:09
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abstract = {{Background: Life near death is difficult foremost for the patient but also for people around the dying person.
Purpose: The purpose of this essay is to investigate palliative-care patients´ psychological and religious approaches and how they cope with their situation that they are dying by interviews of chaplains, pastors, priests and personnel working with dying persons at hospice.
Material and methods: Twelve interviews were done with six hospital chaplains from the Church of Sweden, two hospital pastors from the Methodist Church, one Catholic priest, two nurses and one assistant nurse working at a hospice. From the perspectives of the chaplains from the Church of Sweden, the Methodist Church and the Catholic Church and the nurses and the assistant nurse working at hospice, I looked at how palliative-care patients cope with their own situations when they are dying. I analyzed which needs, physical, psychological, social, and spiritual that they seem to have. I studied the needs related to psychological and religious questions for the patients.
Theory: In the essay I employ coping theory. Foremost I use the work of Pargament where he describes religious and secular coping. I also use the coping theory from Ahmadi and I draw on the six S-ROM designed by psychiatrist Avery Weisman. The six S's are self-image, social relationships, context-synthesis summary, self-determination, symptom relief and consent strategies.
Results and conclusions: The hospital church seems to have an important role for the palliative-care patients. According to the interviews, at the end of life, patients want to summarize their lives, come to terms with life, sort out things and relationships that were not good, and they want to have good quality of life. Religion can, at least to some extent, help to accomplish this. The patients seem to get help from both religious and secular coping. Religious coping is linked with religious questions and the secular coping is especially linked with psychological approaches according to the interviews.}},
author = {{Rönnbäck, Charlotte}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Psykologiska och religiösa förhållningssätt samt copingstrategier hos patienter i livets slutskede, utifrån intervjuer med själavårdare och personal på hospice}},
year = {{2014}},
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