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(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.
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Keywords
Nursing assessment Spirituality Vulnerability Public bathhouse
Pedagogical Context
Citation
Simões Figueiredo, A., Rasquilho Vidal, T., Ferrito, C., Neves-Amado, J., Sarreira-Santos, A., Medeiros-Garcia, L., Roldán-Merino, J., et al. (2020). Community Mental Health Nursing Consultation in a Public Bathhouse: A Spiritual Coping Resource. Religions, 11(11), 618.
Publisher
MDPI