Benefits of spirituality and/or religiosity in patients with Chronic Kidney Disease: an integrative review.

Autor: Bravin AM; Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Faculdade de Medicina. Botucatu-SP, Brasil., Trettene ADS; Universidade de São Paulo, Hospital de Reabilitação de Anomalias Craniofaciais. Bauru-SP, Brasil., Andrade LGM; Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Faculdade de Medicina. Botucatu-SP, Brasil., Popim RC; Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Faculdade de Medicina. Botucatu-SP, Brasil.
Jazyk: English; Portuguese
Zdroj: Revista brasileira de enfermagem [Rev Bras Enferm] 2019 Mar-Apr; Vol. 72 (2), pp. 541-551. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Apr 18.
DOI: 10.1590/0034-7167-2018-0051
Abstrakt: Objective: Identify and analyze existing evidence regarding the benefits of spirituality and / or religiosity in patients with Chronic Kidney Disease.
Method: Integrative review carried out through consultation of databases: Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences, Scientific Electronic Library Online, US National Library of Medicine and Scopus. The following descriptors were used: chronic kidney disease, spirituality and religion. Primary articles published by December 2017 were included.
Results: Twenty-six articles were selected, from which four thematic categories emerged: benefits as a modality of coping, perception of quality of life, mental health and improvement of renal function after transplantation.
Conclusion: Benefits included those related to situational coping modalities, such as the strengthening of hope, social support and coping with pain; those related to mental health, such as the lower risk of suicide and fewer depressive symptoms; improvement in the perception of quality of life and in renal function after transplantation.
Databáze: MEDLINE