THE IMPORTANCE OF SPIRITUALITY FOR ONCOLOGY PATIENTS: INTEGRATIVE REVIEW

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.159442409017

• Palavras-chave: oncology, Religion; Spirituality

• Keywords: oncology, Religion; Spirituality

• Abstract:

  In the last decade, greater attention has been paid to the study of spirituality/religiosity as a coping strategy used by people with cancer, given its protective role against psychological morbidity, since each individual relates spirituality to the hope of surviving the disease. cancer. Therefore, this study aimed to identify how religiosity/spirituality influences patients undergoing cancer treatment. This is an integrative review of the literature, in the Medline, Lilacs, Bdenf databases, through the grouping of the following Health Science (DeCS) descriptors: oncology, Religion and Spirituality, together with the Boolean operator AND. 16 articles were identified. After reading these, 11 studies were identified that made up the selection, 5 of which were published by Medline, 5 by LILACS and 4 by BDENF. Data integration resulted in the frequency of data distributed into two categories: a) Religiosity/spirituality as a coping strategy in the face of illness and cancer treatment and b) The role of the health professional in religious/spiritual support during hospitalization. It is concluded that the recognition of spirituality-religiosity as a coping strategy and the identification of spiritual needs provide health professionals with a better scope of information for the care plan and for more comprehensive assistance.