Strengthening the spiritual domain in palliative care through a listening consultation service by spiritual caregivers in Dutch PaTz-groups: an evaluation study ...

Abstract Background Palliative care should be holistic, but spiritual issues are often overlooked. General practitioners and nurses working together in PaTz-groups (palliative home care groups) consider spiritual issues in palliative care to be relevant, but experience barriers in addressing spiritual issues and finding spiritual caregivers. This study evaluates the feasibility and perceived added value of a listening consultation service by spiritual caregivers in primary palliative care. Methods From December 2018 until September 2019, we piloted a listening consultation service in which spi... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Klop, Hanna T.
Koper, Ian
Schweitzer, Bart P. M.
Jongen, Esli
Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Bregje D.
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
Verlag/Hrsg.: figshare
Schlagwörter: Medicine / Developmental Biology / Cancer / Science Policy
Sprache: unknown
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29399667
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Link(s) : https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5044441

Abstract Background Palliative care should be holistic, but spiritual issues are often overlooked. General practitioners and nurses working together in PaTz-groups (palliative home care groups) consider spiritual issues in palliative care to be relevant, but experience barriers in addressing spiritual issues and finding spiritual caregivers. This study evaluates the feasibility and perceived added value of a listening consultation service by spiritual caregivers in primary palliative care. Methods From December 2018 until September 2019, we piloted a listening consultation service in which spiritual caregivers joined 3 PaTz-groups whose members referred patients or their relatives with spiritual care needs to them. Evaluation occurred through (i) monitoring of the implementation, (ii) in-depth interviews with patients (n = 5) and involved spiritual caregivers (n = 5), (iii) short group interviews in 3 PaTz-groups (17 GPs, 10 nurses and 3 palliative consultants), and (iv) questionnaires filled out by the GP ...