Community Mental Health Nursing Consultation in a Public Bathhouse

A Spiritual Coping Resource

Bibliographic Data

ID3515924
AuthorsArthur Soares Figueiredo (0000-0003-2908-4052, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, corresponding author), Teresa Rasquilho Vidal (0000-0001-5109-9504), Teresa Vidal (0000-0001-6269-4114, Universidade Católica Portuguesa), Cândida Ferrito (0000-0002-2834-8573, Universidade Católica Portuguesa), João Neves-Amado (0000-0002-5330-779X, Universidade Católica Portuguesa), Alexandra Sarreira-Santos (0000-0003-2004-0803, Universidade Católica Portuguesa), Lurdes Medeiros-Garcia (0000-0001-5390-1820, Universidade Católica Portuguesa), Juan Roldán-Merino (0000-0002-7895-6083, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona), Antonia Vollrath Ramirez (0000-0001-7652-7106, Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences)
Year2020
Volume11
Issue11
Pages618
Publication date2020-11-19
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel11110618
OpenAlexW3102716080
LanguageEN
References cited14

1) Background: The spiritual dimension's importance in health/disease processes is widely recognized, also being demonstrated by scientific evidence. Hence, its study is crucial, particularly with respect to a Mental health nursing consultation occurring in a community resource, such as a public bathhouse. This study aims to identify the nursing interventions of spiritual nature developed over 5 years in the abovementioned setting, thus characterizing the Portuguese reality; (2) Methods: Observational, cross-sectional and quantitative study, based on a sample comprising all users who attended a community Mental health nursing consultation, from March 2015, to 31 December 2019; (3) Results: A total of 205 nursing appointments were performed, from which emerged a set of 346 diagnoses, resulting in 455 nursing interventions. Of the latter, some deserve to be highlighted, due to a greater prevalence: "listening" (61; 13%), "supporting" (38; 8%), "promoting self-esteem" (37; 8%), "monitoring vital signs" (31; 7%), and "identifying attitude towards care" (25; 5%); (4) Conclusions: even though some of the interventions performed during the consultations were associated with the spiritual dimension, the collected data points towards a need for new diagnoses and nursing interventions, namely, those which may help mitigate spiritual distress

Mental distress · Mental health · Nursing Interventions Classification · Observational study · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Public health · Public health nursing · Health and Wellbeing Research · Medicine · Nursing · Religion and Society in Latin America · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology

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