Evaluación de la esperanza en pacientes con enfermedad crónica y en familiares o cuidadores

OBJETIVOS: Avaliar o escore de esperança entre os três diferentes grupos e suas variáveis sociodemográficas e clínicas e correlacionar esperança com essas variáveis. MÉTODOS: Estudo descritivo com amostra constituída por 131 indivíduos - 47 pacientes oncológicos, 40 pacientes diabéticos e 44 acompanhantes/ familiares/cuidadores - que responderam às Escalas de Esperança de Herth e de Autoestima de Rosenberg, o Inventário de Depressão de Beck, e um instrumento com dados pessoais. RESULTADOS: Não houve diferença nos escores de esperança entre os grupos. A esperança correlacionou-se positivamente com autoestima e negativamente com a depressão. Para pacientes oncológicos, o escore de esperança não se relacionou a nenhuma variável clínica. Para os pacientes diabéticos, as diferentes formas de tratamento e outras comorbidades não influenciaram na esperança. CONCLUSÃO: Os pacientes com doença crônica e seus familiares apresentaram escores altos de esperança. A mensuração da esperança pode melhorar o cuidado de enfermagem.OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the level of hope among the three different groups and correlate their levels with demographic and clinical variables. METHODS: Descriptive study with a sample of 131 individuals (including 47 cancer patients, 40 diabetic patients and 44 caregivers/ family / caregivers) responding to Hertha's Scale of Hope, Rosenberg's Self-esteem Scale, the Beck Depression Inventory, and an instrument including personal data. RESULTS: There was no difference in hope scores between groups. Hope was positively correlated with self-esteem and negatively correlated with depression. For cancer patients, the hope score was not related to any clinical variable. For diabetic patients, different forms of treatment and other comorbidities were not found to influence hope. CONCLUSION: Patients with chronic disease and their families had high hope scores. The measurement of hope can improve nursing care.OBJETIVOS: Evaluar el escore de esperanza entre los tres diferentes grupos y sus variables sociodemográficas y clínicas y correlacionar la esperanza con esas variables. MÉTODOS: Estudio descriptivo con una muestra constituida por 131 individuos - 47 pacientes oncológicos, 40 pacientes diabéticos y 44 acompañantes/ familiares/cuidadores - que respondieron a las Escalas de Esperanza de Herth y de Autoestima de Rosenberg, el Inventario de Depresión de Beck, y un instrumento con datos personales. RESULTADOS: No hubo diferencia en los escores de esperanza entre los grupos. La esperanza se correlacionó positivamente con la autoestima y negativamente con la depresión. Para pacientes oncológicos, el escore de esperanza no se relacionó a ninguna variable clínica. Para los pacientes diabéticos, las diferentes formas de tratamiento y otras co-morbidades no influyeron en la esperanza. CONCLUSIÓN: Los pacientes con enfermedad crónica y sus familiares presentaron escores altos de esperanza. La mensuración de la esperanza puede mejorar el cuidado de enfermería

The Concept of Hope in Nursing 3: Hope and Palliative Care Nursing

This article is the third in a series of six that explores the nature of hope, reviews the existing theoretical and empirical work in several discrete areas of nursing, and provides case studies to illustrate the role that hope plays in clinical situations. This article focuses on hope within the specialty area of palliative care nursing. Nurse researchers have been instrumental in our current early understandings of hope in palliative care. Studies of hope in palliative care, over the past decades, have focused primarily on those individuals in the advanced stages of cancer and the human immunodeficiency virus. Studies using quantitative methodology have focused on exploring hope levels across the dying trajectory and the relationship between hope and other psychosocial variables while those using qualitative methodology have focused on the meaning of hope and elucidating how terminally ill individual maintain and engender their hope. Research supports that the clinician is an instrument through which hope can be assessed and administered. There is a need for further rigorous investigation of the role of hope during the terminal phase of an illness with specific emphasis on capturing the intangible inner experiences of hope and on the validation of interventions/strategies that develop and maintain hope for both the terminally ill person and his/her family caregivers and significant others

The Concept of Hope in Nursing 3: Hope and Palliative Care Nursing

This article is the third in a series of six that explores the nature of hope, reviews the existing theoretical and empirical work in several discrete areas of nursing, and provides case studies to illustrate the role that hope plays in clinical situations. This article focuses on hope within the specialty area of palliative care nursing. Nurse researchers have been instrumental in our current early understandings of hope in palliative care. Studies of hope in palliative care, over the past decades, have focused primarily on those individuals in the advanced stages of cancer and the human immunodeficiency virus. Studies using quantitative methodology have focused on exploring hope levels across the dying trajectory and the relationship between hope and other psychosocial variables while those using qualitative methodology have focused on the meaning of hope and elucidating how terminally ill individual maintain and engender their hope. Research supports that the clinician is an instrument through which hope can be assessed and administered. There is a need for further rigorous investigation of the role of hope during the terminal phase of an illness with specific emphasis on capturing the intangible inner experiences of hope and on the validation of interventions/strategies that develop and maintain hope for both the terminally ill person and his/her family caregivers and significant others

The Concept of Hope in Nursing 5: Hope and Critical Care Nursing

This article is the fifth of a series of six that explores the nature of hope, reviews the existing theoretical and empirical work in several discrete areas of nursing, and provides case studies to illustrate the role that hope plays in clinical situations. In this article we focus on hope within the formal area of critical care nursing. The article points out that there is a distinct paucity of theoretical and empirical work on hope in this formal area. A very limited empirical literature exists, and this work has produced some preliminary findings on the nature and range of interventions for inspiring hope in this client group. Interestingly, while the nature of critical illness appears to indicate the need for the individual to draw upon all his/her intra- and interpersonal sources of help and support, and thus similarly draw upon his/her internal and external hope, the substantive issue of hope inspiration in this client group is not well researched. There exists, no doubt, a range of explanations for this disparity and this article outlines two and introduces a third. Yet hope and hope maintenance/inspiration may just be equally relevant and important to people with critical problems as they are to individuals with chronic problems; this view is supported by the limited empirical work in this area. Consequently, there is a clear need for future qualitative and quantitative research, some of which needs to explore the experiences of hope/hoping/hopelessness for people with a range of critical care needs. Furthermore, despite the apparent emphasis on ‘high-tech’, overt, and tangible practices within some critical care settings, this article would urge practitioners to remain open to the value of the more subtle, less visible, implicit, approaches to inspiring and maintaining hope in these clients

The Concept of Hope in Nursing 1: Its Origins, Background and Nature

Hope has been described in theoretical terms for many years but the recognition of the importance of hope within the practice of nursing is a more recent phenomenon. Despite the recent growth of references to hope within contemporary nursing literature, it is reasonable to suggest that there remain gaps in the substantive knowledge base and that there appears to be room for both additional research and further discursive literature. Accordingly, this series of six articles will explore the nature of hope, review the existing theoretical and empirical work in several discrete areas of nursing, and provide case studies to illustrate the role that hope plays in clinical situations. This article focuses on the origins, background and definitions of hope. The next article will examine hope within mental health nursing, and further articles will focus on hope within palliative care nursing, hope in gerontological nursing and hope in critical and acute care nursing

The Concept of Hope in Nursing 2: Hope and Mental Health Nursing

This article is the second in a series of six that explores the nature of hope, reviews the existing theoretical and empirical work in several discrete areas of nursing, and provides case studies to illustrate the role that hope plays in clinical situations. In this article we focus on hope within the formal area of psychiatric/mental health nursing. The article points out that there is a limited empirical literature covering several aspects and issues of hope, hopelessness and hope inspiration within the domain of psychiatry. However, despite these studies many questions still remain unanswered. The bulk of this empirical literature focuses on hopelessness, and in the main hopelessness associated with suicide/depression. As a result of these investigations, a range of interventions have been identified for inspiring hope in different client groups with mental health problems, and a summary of these is given. Importantly, however, the basic social process of hope inspiration for each of these client groups is fundamentally the same, in that the process remains subtle, unobtrusive and associated with the therapy/relationship. We conclude by indicating key areas/questions for future research, and raise key questions regarding future policy/education issues

The Concept of Hope in Nursing 1: Its Origins, Background and Nature

Hope has been described in theoretical terms for many years but the recognition of the importance of hope within the practice of nursing is a more recent phenomenon. Despite the recent growth of references to hope within contemporary nursing literature, it is reasonable to suggest that there remain gaps in the substantive knowledge base and that there appears to be room for both additional research and further discursive literature. Accordingly, this series of six articles will explore the nature of hope, review the existing theoretical and empirical work in several discrete areas of nursing, and provide case studies to illustrate the role that hope plays in clinical situations. This article focuses on the origins, background and definitions of hope. The next article will examine hope within mental health nursing, and further articles will focus on hope within palliative care nursing, hope in gerontological nursing and hope in critical and acute care nursing

The Concept of Hope in Nursing 4: Hope and Gerontological Nursing

Explores the role of hope in gerontological nursing. Nature of hope; Hope in elderly patients in different health care settings; Assessment of hope in the elderly