Quality of life and religious/espiriutal coping of patients in palliative care

• Grant number: 14/12268-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: March 01, 2015
• End date: February 29, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Nursing - Medical-Surgical Nursing
• Principal Investigator: Silmara Meneguin
• Grantee: Ticiane Dionizio de Sousa Matos
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Medicina (FMB). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Botucatu. Botucatu , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The palliative care is premised promote pain relief and other stress symptoms, reaffirm life and regard death as a natural process. This philosophy does not anticipate nor postpones death, but aims to integrate psychosocial and spiritual aspects of care, offer a support system that helps the patient to live as actively as possible until his death. In this study, descriptive, exploratory, cross-up aims to evaluate the quality of life and religious / spiritual coping of patients in palliative care. The study will be conducted at the outpatient palliative care, Hospital das Clinicas, Faculty of Medicine of Botucatu and will be considered eligible patients treated at this facility, of both sexes, aged over 18 years and that consent to participation. For this purpose, a questionnaire consisting of four parts, the first identification data will be used by the second questionnaire translated and validated Quality of Life McGill, the third by the scale of religious / spiritual coping abbreviated. Finally, three open questions, which will be analyzed using the methodological strategy of the Collective Subject Discourse apply.