نتایج جستجو برای: seeking dignity

تعداد نتایج: 57567  

2017
Mohammad Zirak Mansour Ghafourifard Ebrahim Aliafsari Mamaghani

Introduction: Dignity is considered as fundamental human needs and recognized as one of the central concepts in nursing science. The aim of this study was to assess the extent to which patients' dignity is respected and to evalutae its relationship with contextual variables. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 256 hospitalized patients in the two teaching hospitals affiliated t...

Journal: :Revista de salud publica 2013
Olga B Guzmán-Suárez

Given that one of the main reasons prioritising public policy agendas is related to implementing action responding to the increase in the prevalence of disability and the violation people of such people's rights, governments in many parts of the world have advanced disability certification as a tool for claiming rights, seeking to comply with the principles of dignity, liberty, equality and non...

Journal: :Journal international de bioethique = International journal of bioethics 2010
Katsunori Kai

In Japan, there are no acts and, specific provisions or official guidelines on euthanasia, but recently, as I will mention below, an official guideline on "death with dignity" has been made. Nevertheless in fact, this guideline provides only a few rules of process on terminal care. Therefore the problems of euthanasia and "death with dignity" are mainly left to the legal interpretation by liter...

Journal: :Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2005
Harvey Max Chochinov Thomas Hack Thomas Hassard Linda J Kristjanson Susan McClement Mike Harlos

PURPOSE This study examined a novel intervention, dignity therapy, designed to address psychosocial and existential distress among terminally ill patients. Dignity therapy invites patients to discuss issues that matter most or that they would most want remembered. Sessions are transcribed and edited, with a returned final version that they can bequeath to a friend or family member. The objectiv...

2017
Marina Martínez María Arantzamendi Alazne Belar José Miguel Carrasco Ana Carvajal María Rullán Carlos Centeno

BACKGROUND Dignity therapy is psychotherapy to relieve psychological and existential distress in patients at the end of life. Little is known about its effect. AIM To analyse the outcomes of dignity therapy in patients with advanced life-threatening diseases. DESIGN Systematic review was conducted. Three authors extracted data of the articles and evaluated quality using Critical Appraisal S...

2016
Genevieve N. Thompson Jennifer McArthur Malcolm Doupe

Ensuring that people living in nursing homes (NHs) are afforded with dignity in their daily lives is an essential and humane concern. Promoting dignity-conserving care is fundamentally important. By nature, however, this care is all-encompassing and holistic, and from current knowledge it is challenging to create explicit strategies for measuring dignity-conserving care. In practice the majorit...

Journal: :British journal of nursing 2017
Leah Macaden Richard G Kyle Wayne Medford Julie Blundell Sarah-Anne Munoz Elaine Webster

AIM The aim of this research was to investigate student nurses' perceptions of the concept of dignity in the care of older people. Student nurses regularly move between the classroom and the clinical setting and are thus ideally placed to cast light on the barriers that exist to providing dignity in care and the way in which their theoretical understanding of dignity is shaped by exposure to th...

Journal: :Age and ageing 2013
Andy Hau Yan Ho Cecilia Lai Wan Chan Pamela Pui Yu Leung Harvey Max Chochinov Robert A Neimeyer Samantha Mei Che Pang Doris Man Wah Tse

BACKGROUND the empirical Dignity Model has profoundly influenced the provision of palliative care for older terminally ill patients in the West, as it provides practical guidance and intervention strategies for promoting dignity and reducing distress at the end-of-life. OBJECTIVE to examine the concept of 'living and dying with dignity' in the Chinese context, and explore the generalisability...

Journal: :Palliative medicine 2013
Isis E van Gennip H Roeline W Pasman Pam J Kaspers Mariska G Oosterveld-Vlug Dick L Willems Dorly J H Deeg Bregje D Onwuteaka-Philipsen

BACKGROUND Death with dignity has been identified as important both to patients and their surviving family. While research results have been published on what patients themselves believe may affect the dignity of their deaths, little is known about what family caregivers consider to be a dignified death. AIM (1) To assess the prevalence of death with dignity in older adults from the perspecti...

Journal: :journal of medical ethics and history of medicine 0
roghayeh mehdipour-rabori assistant professor, department of medical-surgical nursing, razi school of nursing and midwifery, kerman university of medical sciences, kerman, iran; abbas abbaszadeh professor, department of medical-surgical nursing, school of nursing and midwifery, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences and academy of medical sciences, tehran, iran; fariba borhani associate professor, medical ethics and law research center, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, iran

the human dignity of patients with cardiovascular disease (cvd) is an important issue, because of patients’ dependence upon caregivers, and because it impacts all aspects of their quality of life (qol). therefore, understanding and improving the status of dignity among these patients is of great importance. this study aimed to determine the status of dignity in patients with cvd admitted to car...

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