Spiritual care in patients hospitalized with COVID-19: scoping review

• Autor(a) principal: Dantas, Ana Clara
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Araújo, Jéssica Naiara de Medeiros, Borges, Bárbara Ebilizarda Coutinho, Silva, Amanda Barbosa da, Medeiros, Hanna Priscilla da Silva, Carvalho, Leandro Melo de, Vitor, Allyne Fortes
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Rev Rene (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufc.br/rene/article/view/81367
• topic: Spiritual Therapies; Spirituality; Hospital Care; COVID-19.; Terapias Espirituais; Espiritualidade; Assistência Hospitalar; COVID-19.

Objective: to map existing evidence on spiritual care for patients hospitalized with COVID-19. Methods: scoping review developed in accordance with methodological processes developed by the Joanna Briggs Institute, carried out through a search in the data bases SCOPUS, Science Direct, MEDLINE, Web of Science, CINAHL, and Google Scholar®, in addition to a reverse search in the works selected. The review included studies with evidence on the topic at hand, which had been published in any language, in any time frame. Results: 19 studies were analyzed, and 8 different spiritual care interventions were mapped, which were: listening to the spiritual pain of the patient; grief support; on-line video tools with content on faith and resilience; on-line calls with relatives; availability of religious representatives; spiritual triage; training professionals to provide spiritual care; and music therapy as an instrument of spirituality.  Conclusion: this review allowed mapping the evidence about spiritual care in patients hospitalized with a diagnosis of COVID-19, addressing strategies to bring spirituality into health care. Contributions to practice:this study contributes for the advancement of the practice of nursing regarding spirituality and patients with COVID-19, providing subsidies to use spirituality as a tool to support care and facilitate dealing with difficult situations.