Spiritual care on quality of life patients exposed to COVID-19 in the city area of Semarang

Tri  Hartiti; Arief Yanto

doi:10.15562/bmj.v12i1.3779

Spiritual care on quality of life patients exposed to COVID-19 in the city area of Semarang

Tri Hartiti ,

Arief Yanto ,

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15562/bmj.v12i1.3779 |
Published: 2023-02-02

Abstract

Introduction: Caring is a basic professional character that nurses must have in providing nursing care, including patients exposed to COVID-19, where nurses play an important position in maintaining their quality of life. This study aimed to find out the spiritual caring of nurses in this case is altruistic caring and humanistic caring on the quality of life of patients exposed to COVID-19 in the physical, psychological, social, and environmental dimensions.

Methods: This research was correlational using a cross-sectional approach to 118 respondents, namely patients exposed to COVID-19, both those being treated in isolation at the hospital, as well as independent isolation using the purposive sampling method. The instrument used in this study is the quality of life questionnaire which consists of 4 dimensions and a spiritual care questionnaire given by nurses.

Results: The research showed the characteristics of the sample were mostly women 83 (70.33%), the age of the respondents was at least 23 years and a maximum of 65 years, the most with undergraduate education as many as 53.38%; employment status 80.51% private employees, marital status 83.89% married; treatment status 82.20% hospitalized; length of hospitalization between 2 to 40 days with an average of 12.26 days; Most of the respondents are Muslim 95.76%. The value of altruistic caring is good (63.56%), humanistic caring is good (68.64%). The quality of life of respondents who were exposed to COVID-19 was mostly good, 66.94%.

Conclusion: There was a relationship between spiritual caring, both altruistic caring and humanistic caring, on the quality of life of patient respondents exposed to COVID-19, where the better the perception of spiritual caring the better the quality of life. This research can be used as evaluation material for nursing care providers to cultivate caring character to improve the quality of life of patients.

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[7] Gardner W, States D, Bagley N. The Coronavirus and the Risks to the Elderly in Long-Term Care. J Aging Soc Policy. 2020 Apr 3;1–6.

[8] Ferrell BR, Handzo G, Picchi T, Puchalski C, Rosa WE. The Urgency of Spiritual Care: COVID-19 and the Critical Need for Whole-Person Palliation. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2020 Sep;60(3):e7–11.

[9] Rachel H, Chiara C, Robert K, Francesco S. Spiritual care in nursing: an overview of the measures used to assess spiritual care provision and related factors amongst nurses. Acta Bio Medica Atenei Parm. 2019;90(Suppl 4):44.

[10] Ausar K, Lekhak N, Candela L. Nurse spiritual self-care: A scoping review. Nurs Outlook. 2021;69(4):660–71.

[11] Bakar A, Nursalam, Adriani M, Kusnanto, Qomariah SN, Efendi F. The development of islamic caring model to improve psycho-spiritual comfort of coronary disease patients. Indian J Public Heal Res Dev. 2018 Oct;9(10):312–7.

[12] Chiang Y-C, Lee H-C, Chu T-L, Han C-Y, Hsiao Y-C. A spiritual education course to enhance nursing students’ spiritual competencies. Nurse Educ Pract. 2020;49:102907.

[13] de Diego-Cordero R, López-Gómez L, Lucchetti G, Badanta B. Spiritual care in critically ill patients during COVID-19 pandemic. Nurs Outlook. 2022;70(1):64–77.

[14] Bolt SR, van der Steen JT, Mujezinović I, Janssen DJA, Schols JMGA, Zwakhalen SMG, et al. Practical nursing recommendations for palliative care for people with dementia living in long-term care facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic: A rapid scoping review. Int J Nurs Stud. 2021;113:103781.

[15] Struyf T, Deeks JJ, Dinnes J, Takwoingi Y, Davenport C, Leeflang MM, et al. Signs and symptoms to determine if a patient presenting in primary care or hospital outpatient settings has COVID‐19. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2022;(5).

[16] McBride O, Murphy J, Shevlin M, Gibson‐Miller J, Hartman TK, Hyland P, et al. Monitoring the psychological, social, and economic impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic in the population: Context, design and conduct of the longitudinal COVID‐19 psychological research consortium (C19PRC) study. Int J Methods Psychiatr Res. 2021;30(1):e1861.

[17] Haraldstad K, Wahl A, Andenæs R, Andersen JR, Andersen MH, Beisland E, et al. A systematic review of quality of life research in medicine and health sciences. Qual life Res. 2019;28(10):2641–50.

[18] Jeppesen SS, Bentsen KK, Jørgensen TL, Holm HS, Holst-Christensen L, Tarpgaard LS, et al. Quality of life in patients with cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic–a Danish cross-sectional study (COPICADS). Acta Oncol (Madr). 2021;60(1):4–12.

[19] Poudel AN, Zhu S, Cooper N, Roderick P, Alwan N, Tarrant C, et al. Impact of COVID-19 on health-related quality of life of patients: A structured review. PLoS One. 2021;16(10):e0259164.

Spiritual care on quality of life patients exposed to COVID-19 in the city area of Semarang

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