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- Title
Expectation in Life Review.
- Authors
Deng, Di; Deng, Qing; Liu, Xiaofang; Xie, Cong Hua; Wu, Xin
- Abstract
Terms such as spirituality and spiritual needs are abstract and difficult to understand. Realization of spirituality of hospice patients was premise in addressing expression of their spiritual needs. This study investigated expectations expressed during life review and tried to prove that the expectation was intelligible term for spiritual needs in Chinese hospice from May 2011 to June 2013. Among the 107 recruited patients, families were the most frequent emotion-expressing recipients, and 133 expectations related to patients’ spiritual needs were identified. The emotion-expressing recipients and the patient’s expectations were not affected by demographic characteristics. The expectations in life review with hospice patients and their families had the features of spiritual essence. The identified expectation contents could be used to address spiritual needs in hospice care in Chinese.
- Subjects
CHINA; CHINESE people; HOSPICE care; PATIENTS; REMINISCENCE; SPIRITUALITY; T-test (Statistics); SPIRITUAL care (Medical care); DATA analysis software
- Publication
American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Medicine, 2015, Vol 32, Issue 7, p725
- ISSN
1049-9091
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1049909114539727