Evaluación del bienestar espiritual de pacientes en fase terminal, en los hospitales Manuel Ygnacio Monteros, Isidro Ayora e Instituto del Cáncer Solca de la ciudad de Loja, período junio 2013 - marzo

Abstract

Objective: Evaluate the influence that the spiritual well-being of patients with terminal illness, performing the acceptance of their illness and death in different hospitals of Loja city, through surveys and test to improve palliative care. Methodology: Descriptive cross-sectional study. Results: The spiritual well-being of one hundred patients with terminal illness of the three institutions was evaluated through test as FACIT - Sp and FACIT - Ex, as well as their depression and their anxiety using the HADS, and it was detected the influence of the spiritual well-being of the latter two entities. The result was obtained by means of the Pearson correlation between spiritual well-being with anxiety and depression. Conclusions: Greater spiritual well-being in these patients was strongly associated with lower depression score (r. -, 506, p. <0.001). It was also found that older patients had a higher depression score, although the relationship was not very strong (r. ,248; p. <0.013). No relationship between spiritual well-being and anxiety was found.