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Spiritual care interventions in nursing: an integrative literature review

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As an important part of the holistic care, spiritual care is considered an indicator of care quality. This study aims to identify and characterize nursing spiritual care interventions. In order to identify and select resources, an integrative review was done. The search was conducted in national and international databases such as Google Scholar, Scopus, INML, Iran Medex, Iran Doc, Web of Science, Wiley, SID, ProQuest, Ovid, Science Direct, PubMed, ebrary, Sage, CINAHL, and Magiran from 1994 to 2018. As a result, 1625 articles were detected, 59 of which were included in synthesis. Data extraction and analysis presented eight categories of spiritual care interventions in the field of nursing including (1) the exploration of spiritual perspective, (2) healing presence, (3) the therapeutic use of self, (4) intuitive sense, (5) patient-centeredness, (6) meaning-centered therapeutic interventions, (7) the creation of a spiritually nurturing environment, and (8) the documentation and evaluation of spiritual care.

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This project is financially supported by the Faculty of Medical Sciences of Tarbiat Modares University and the Vice-Chancellor for Research and Technology of Tarbiat Modares University.

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  1. Department of Nursing, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

    Mojtaba Ghorbani & Eesa Mohammadi

  2. Khansari Hospital and Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran

    Reza Aghabozorgi

  3. Nursing and Midwifery Care Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

    Monir Ramezani

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Ghorbani, M., Mohammadi, E., Aghabozorgi, R. et al. Spiritual care interventions in nursing: an integrative literature review. Support Care Cancer 29, 1165–1181 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-020-05747-9

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