Severe mental illness disrupts daily functioning, burdening family caregivers, who often adopt spiritual coping strategies. With comprehensive skills, mental health nurses can promote well-being and mental health. The aim is to develop and test the nursing intervention “promoting spiritual coping” in the family caregivers of home-dwelling people with mental illness. This study was conducted in two distinct stag...
Severe mental illness disrupts daily functioning, burdening family caregivers, who often adopt spiritual coping strategies. With comprehensive skills, mental health nurses can promote well-being and mental health. The aim is to develop and test the nursing intervention “promoting spiritual coping” in the family caregivers of home-dwelling people with mental illness. This study was conducted in two distinct stag...
Suffering is a complex, multidimensional and individual experience extensively described in literature concerning different life and health conditions, but often reduced to a physical perspective as a symptom. The relationship between suffering and meaning in life led to the development of measurement tools such as it is the case of the Meaning in Suffering Test (MIST). Additionally, recent studies have awakene...
Background Sufering is a complex, multidimensional and individual experience extensively described in literature concerning diferent life and health conditions, but often reduced to a physical perspective as a symptom. The relationship between sufering and meaning in life led to the development of measurement tools such as it is the case of the Meaning in Sufering Test (MIST). Additionally, recent studies have ...
Background According to the World Health Organization, between 250,000 and 500,000 people worldwide sufer a spinal cord injury (SCI) each year, and more than 90% cases are traumatic. These injuries cause profound changes in life and have a negative implication on well-being and quality of life. Spirituality may represent a critical dimension in living and overcoming this condition which usually happens unexpect...
Background Severe mental illness is characterized by severe changes in functionality interfering with daily life activities. The home-dwelling person with severe mental illness often needs support from family members who assume the role of caregivers. The performance of the role of family caregiver often leads to a burden, with an impact on physical and mental health. As so, the caregiver develops coping strate...
Background Being a family caregiver often leads to a burden, with an impact on diferent dimensions of life. As so, the caregiver develops coping strategies to deal with stressful situations. Coping is a multifactorial and individual process related to responding to stressful situations, such as being a caregiver of a relative with health conditions. There are diferent coping strategies, such as spiritual/religi...