Penman Joy, Oliver Mary, Harrington Ann
Nursing and Rural Health Unit, Centre for Regional Engagement, University of South Australia, Whyalla Norrie, South Australia, Australia.
Int J Nurs Pract. 2013 Feb;19(1):39-46. doi: 10.1111/ijn.12035.
This paper aims to explicate the essence of spiritual engagement from the perspective of palliative care clients and their caregivers. Van Manen's hermeneutic phenomenological approach guided this study. In-depth interviews of 14 rural Australian participants with experience of a life-limiting condition provided rich discourse of the lived experience of spiritual engagement. This research highlights spiritual engagement represented in a relational model developed from a creative synthesis of the emerging themes. Spiritual engagement is associated with 'personal transformation', 'human values of love, compassion and altruism', 'maintaining relationships', 'participating in religious practices' and 'culture'. The findings of this research are supported by Mayes' observations on spirituality, that is, the 'pursuit of a trans-personal and trans-temporal reality that serves as the ontological ground for an ethic of compassion and service'.
本文旨在从姑息治疗患者及其照护者的角度阐释精神参与的本质。范·曼恩的诠释现象学方法指导了本研究。对14名有生命受限状况经历的澳大利亚农村参与者进行的深入访谈，提供了关于精神参与生活体验的丰富论述。本研究强调了从新出现主题的创造性综合中发展而来的关系模型中所体现的精神参与。精神参与与“个人转变”、“爱、同情和利他主义的人类价值观”、“维持关系”、“参与宗教活动”和“文化”相关。本研究的结果得到了梅斯对灵性的观察结果的支持，即“对超个人和超时间现实的追求，这为同情和服务伦理提供了本体论基础”。
