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Bem-estar espiritual e felicidade em pessoas idosas institucionalizadas
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Introdução: O envelhecimento populacional é inquestionável. Os cuidados de saúde melhoraram, as pessoas vivem mais tempo e a institucionalização dos idosos tornou-se uma realidade. Os cuidados paliativos, focando-se nas necessidades da pessoa, visam a qualidade de vida através da promoção da dignidade e da prevenção e alívio de todos os tipos de sofrimento. Perante a finitude da vida, oportunidade privilegiada de questionamento interior, importa conhecer a realidade e saber se os idosos institucionalizados encontram significado e propósito na sua vida (bem-estar espiritual) e se se sentem felizes (felicidade subjetiva). Objetivos: Avaliar o bem-estar espiritual e a felicidade subjetiva de pessoas idosas institucionalizadas e analisar a sua relação. Material e métodos: Estudo observacional e transversal, realizado num lar de idosos da cidade de Lisboa com cerca de 100 residentes. A amostra foi constituída por 49 pessoas com mais de 65 anos, sem alterações cognitivas impeditivas da sua participação, avaliadas através do Mini-Mental State Examination. Os participantes completaram o Questionário de Bem-Estar Espiritual (SWBQp) e a Escala de Felicidade Subjetiva de Lyubomirsky e Lepper. Os dados foram analisados utilizando o SPSS 24®. Resultados: Os idosos da amostra apresentam um nível médio-elevado de bem-estar espiritual (BEE) e uma felicidade subjetiva mediana. A variável BEE apresenta uma correlação positiva moderada com todas as suas dimensões – pessoal, comunitária, ambiental e transcendental – e com a felicidade subjetiva. O BEE global, pessoal e comunitário apresenta uma correlação moderada positiva com a felicidade subjetiva e o BEE ambiental uma correlação baixa positiva. A idade apresenta uma correlação negativa baixa com as duas variáveis. Conclusões: Os idosos institucionalizados apresentam felicidade e BEE medianos, os quais parecem correlacionar-se positivamente. Atendendo à missão dos cuidados paliativos, os enfermeiros, na equipa, devem implementar intervenções individualizadas que melhorem o bem-estar espiritual e a felicidade dos idosos.
Introduction: Population aging is undeniable. Health care has improved, people live longer and the institutionalization of the elderly has become a reality. Palliative care, focusing on people needs, aim at the quality of life through the promotion of dignity and prevention and relief of all kinds of suffering. Facing the finitude of life, a privileged opportunity for interior questioning, it is important to know the reality and to know if the institutionalized elderly find a meaning and a purpose in their lives (spiritual wellbeing) and if they are happy (subjective happiness). Objectives: Evaluate the spiritual well-being and the subjective happiness of institutionalized people and analyze their relation. Materials and methods: Observational and cross-sectional study, conducted in a nursing home in Lisbon with about 100 residents. The sample consisted of 49 people over 65 years old, without cognitive changes that might be impairment for the participation in the study, evaluated through the Mini-Mental State Examination. The participants completed the Spiritual Well-being Questionnaire (SWBQ) and the Lyubomirsky and Lepper Subjective Scale of Happiness. The data were analyzed using the SPSS 24®. Results: Participants scored medium-high level of spiritual well-being (SWB) and a medium subjective happiness. The SWB variable presents a moderate positive correlation with all its dimensions – personal, community, environmental and transcendental – and with the subjective happiness. The global, personal and community SWB presents a moderate positive correlation with the subjective happiness; and the environmental SWB presents a low positive correlation. Age presents a low positive correlation with the two variables. Conclusions: The institutionalized elderly present medium happiness and SWB, which seems to correlate positively. Bearing in mind the palliative care mission, the nurses in the team should implement individualized interventions that improve the elderly spiritual well-being and happiness.
Introduction: Population aging is undeniable. Health care has improved, people live longer and the institutionalization of the elderly has become a reality. Palliative care, focusing on people needs, aim at the quality of life through the promotion of dignity and prevention and relief of all kinds of suffering. Facing the finitude of life, a privileged opportunity for interior questioning, it is important to know the reality and to know if the institutionalized elderly find a meaning and a purpose in their lives (spiritual wellbeing) and if they are happy (subjective happiness). Objectives: Evaluate the spiritual well-being and the subjective happiness of institutionalized people and analyze their relation. Materials and methods: Observational and cross-sectional study, conducted in a nursing home in Lisbon with about 100 residents. The sample consisted of 49 people over 65 years old, without cognitive changes that might be impairment for the participation in the study, evaluated through the Mini-Mental State Examination. The participants completed the Spiritual Well-being Questionnaire (SWBQ) and the Lyubomirsky and Lepper Subjective Scale of Happiness. The data were analyzed using the SPSS 24®. Results: Participants scored medium-high level of spiritual well-being (SWB) and a medium subjective happiness. The SWB variable presents a moderate positive correlation with all its dimensions – personal, community, environmental and transcendental – and with the subjective happiness. The global, personal and community SWB presents a moderate positive correlation with the subjective happiness; and the environmental SWB presents a low positive correlation. Age presents a low positive correlation with the two variables. Conclusions: The institutionalized elderly present medium happiness and SWB, which seems to correlate positively. Bearing in mind the palliative care mission, the nurses in the team should implement individualized interventions that improve the elderly spiritual well-being and happiness.
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Bem-estar espiritual Felicidade subjetiva Cuidados paliativos Idosos Spiritual well-being Subjective happiness Palliative care Elderly
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