What does the word healing mean to you? Perceptions of patients with life-limiting illness.
| Autor: | Hendricks Sloan D; Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD., BrintzenhofeSzoc K; University of Louisiana, Kent School of Social Work, Louisville, KY., Mistretta E; Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ., Cova J; Cincinnati, OH., Li L; Division of Geriatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA., Willis G; National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD., Weaver MS; Department of Pediatrics, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE.; VA National Center for Ethics in Health Care, Washington, DC., Berger A; Department of Pain and Palliative Care, National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Palliative & supportive care [Palliat Support Care] 2024 Jun; Vol. 22 (3), pp. 577-581. |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S1478951522000839 |
| Abstrakt: | Introduction: There is a growing consensus that patient-centered care is more effective in treating patients than a strictly biomedical model, where there are known challenges to involving the patient in assessments, treatment goals, and determining preferred outcomes. Objectives: The current study seeks to integrate patient values and perspectives by exploring how people diagnosed with a life-limiting disease define healing in their own words. Methods: As a part of a larger study that included cognitive interviewing, we asked the question "what does the word healing mean to you?" Data were collected during face-to-face interviews with patients from three metropolitan healthcare facilities. Results: Thirty participants responded to the question "what does healing mean to you?" Seven themes were identified through the data analysis. These themes include acceptance, feeling better, pain, social support, process, religion/spirituality, and make whole. The feeling better, pain, and process themes have subthemes. Significance of Results: Probing to understand patient perspectives and how to provide a holistic approach to care is essential to patient treatment. Patients defined healing in a broader way than how it is typically defined in literature. The patients' definitions provide greater insight into perceptions and expectations regarding the healing process. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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