Table 8 Descriptions of patients’ spirituality
Topics | N = 95 (%) | Example |
|---|---|---|
Family | 49 (51.6) | ‘My family’ ‘Family that I love and support’ |
God/Religion | 29 (30.5) | ‘God gives me courage’ ‘Jesus Christ is our salvation’ |
To live | 16 (16.9) | ‘Will to live’ ‘I think about living’ |
Faith | 11 (11.6) | ‘Faith’ |
Inner strength | 11 (11.6) | ‘Courage inside me’ ‘To face good and evil’ |
World | 9 (9.5) | ‘To see the world’‘society, travel …’ |
Friends | 7 (7.4) | ‘To hang out with friends …’ ‘Neighbours …’ |
Basic needs | 7 (7.4) | ‘Be able to eat …’ ‘Walk again …’ |
Work | 7 (7.4) | ‘My profession, I feel useful’ ‘A working man’ |
Autonomy | 6 (6.3) | ‘Have strength to do what I did before’ ‘Have a normal life again …’ |
Hope | 6 (6.3) | ‘Have hope’ |
Healing/Health | 5 (5.3) | ‘I want to heal myself’‘It’s health!’ |
Nature | 4 (4.2) | ‘The mountain air …’ ‘Gardening and taking care of my chickens’ |
Believe | 4 (4.2) | ‘To believe’ |
Suffering | 4 (4.2) | ‘It’s a sacrifice. I don’t have the will to live. The faster this is settled, the better’ ‘I would like to join my husband, he passed away less than a year ago …’ |
Superior forces | 3 (3.2) | ‘Some superior force …’ ‘Destiny, I have this, and I have to face it’ |