Providing dignity therapy to patients with advanced cancer: a feasibility study within the setting of a hospital palliative care unit.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Dignity is a basic principle of palliative care and is intrinsic in the daily practice of professionals assisting individuals with incurable diseases. Dignity Therapy (DT) is a short-term intervention aimed at improving the sense of purpose, meaning and self-worth and at reducing the existential distress of patients facing advanced illness. Few studies have examined how DT works in countries of non-Anglo Saxon culture and in different real-life settings. Moreover, most studies do not provide detailed information on how DT is conducted, limiting a reliable assessment of DT protocol application and of its evaluation procedure. The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility and acceptability of a nurse-led DT intervention in advanced cancer patients receiving palliativ

SUBMITTER: Nunziante F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8369621 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature