Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Dignity therapists' experience of conducting dignity therapy with terminal cancer patients in mainland China: A descriptive qualitative study

Dignity therapists' experience of conducting dignity therapy with terminal cancer patients in... INTRODUCTIONThe fundamental tenet of palliative care is described as supporting patient dignity to help them achieve a good death (Chochinov, 2002; Ternestedt et al., 2002). To achieve this goal, dignity therapy (DT) was developed as a novel, individualised intervention of dignity‐conserving care based on the basic values of the model of dignity in the terminally ill developed by Chochinov et al. (2002). Guided by a core question protocol, DT provides terminally ill patients with an opportunity to discuss about their life events and innermost feelings of major significance, as well as convey their gratitude, wishes and guidance to their loved ones. The whole session is audio‐recorded, transcribed and edited to formulate a final generativity document that can be given to the patients to be bequeathed to their families as a memoir (Chochinov et al., 2011).Considering the brief conduction and perceived benefits to patients, DT has been widely applied to patients with advanced cancers, end‐stage chronic illnesses and dementia in many countries and cultural contexts across the world (Chochinov et al., 2011; Hall et al., 2011; Julião et al., 2017; Vuksanovic et al., 2017; Wang et al., 2020). Robust evidence has demonstrated great satisfaction with DT among patients and family members, which is rare for psychological–spiritual interventions (Fitchett et http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png European Journal of Cancer Care Wiley

Dignity therapists' experience of conducting dignity therapy with terminal cancer patients in mainland China: A descriptive qualitative study

Download PDF
10 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/wiley/dignity-therapists-experience-of-conducting-dignity-therapy-with-inUEuAW7kT

References (36)

Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
© 2022 John Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISSN
0961-5423
eISSN
1365-2354
DOI
10.1111/ecc.13670
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

INTRODUCTIONThe fundamental tenet of palliative care is described as supporting patient dignity to help them achieve a good death (Chochinov, 2002; Ternestedt et al., 2002). To achieve this goal, dignity therapy (DT) was developed as a novel, individualised intervention of dignity‐conserving care based on the basic values of the model of dignity in the terminally ill developed by Chochinov et al. (2002). Guided by a core question protocol, DT provides terminally ill patients with an opportunity to discuss about their life events and innermost feelings of major significance, as well as convey their gratitude, wishes and guidance to their loved ones. The whole session is audio‐recorded, transcribed and edited to formulate a final generativity document that can be given to the patients to be bequeathed to their families as a memoir (Chochinov et al., 2011).Considering the brief conduction and perceived benefits to patients, DT has been widely applied to patients with advanced cancers, end‐stage chronic illnesses and dementia in many countries and cultural contexts across the world (Chochinov et al., 2011; Hall et al., 2011; Julião et al., 2017; Vuksanovic et al., 2017; Wang et al., 2020). Robust evidence has demonstrated great satisfaction with DT among patients and family members, which is rare for psychological–spiritual interventions (Fitchett et

Journal

European Journal of Cancer Care – Wiley

Published: Nov 1, 2022

Keywords: dignity therapist; dignity therapy; mainland China; palliative care; qualitative study; terminal cancer patients

There are no references for this article.