Structured Individiual Reminiscence on Self Transcendence of Palliative Care Patients

The Effect of Structured Individiual Reminiscence on Symptom Management, Life Satisfaction and Self Transcendence of Palliative Care Patients

Palliative Care is the care offered by a simultaneous multidisciplinary approach with all treatments aimed at preventing/alleviating suffering and increasing the quality of life by early identifying all physical, psycho-social and spiritual needs, especially pain, to individuals and their families who face problems arising from life-threatening diseases. philosophy. For this reason, it includes the quality of life and the positive effect of the disease process. Symptom management starts from the moment of diagnosis and lasts until the moment of death, and as in all areas, complementary therapies are very important in palliative care as well as pharmacological treatment.

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Palliative Care
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: structured individual reminiscence; Other: unstructured social interview

Detailed Description

It is thought that increasing the quality of life of palliative care patients, making sense of the past life and transforming the negative perspective into a positive one, as well as the symptoms seen in the process until death, can contribute positively to the quality of life of the individual. The reason for this is personality development, which he mentioned in the Psychosocial Development Theory, which was introduced in the 1950s. He reported that personality development lasts for a lifetime and consists of eight stages, and the last stage will be hopeless in an individual whose self-integrity is not complete. Because, according to the theory, every individual has accepted all the experiences he has lived in his life as they are, assimilated and adapted to complete the integrity of the self. In this totality, there is no regret for the past, no fear and anxiety for the future. Despair will cause the individual to experience fear of death because death is an inevitable end and should be expected in peace as a natural part of life. Based on this theory, a gerontologist and psychiatrist argued in his 1963 study Life Review that the act of reviewing the past is about integrating and interpreting experiences in the dimension of analyzing the past. After the word reminiscence was derived, studies emerged as Reminiscence Therapy by structuring the review process of life. Although it originally emerged as a psychoanalytic concept, reminiscence therapy has been used as a component of nursing in long-term care settings. Nurses began using Reminiscence Therapy in the late 1960s and published their experiences in the 1970s. At that time, the purpose of nurses in applying Reminiscence Therapy was to help older individuals reframe their experiences and prepare for death. In 1978, a nurse described some of the therapeutic factors of Reminiscence Therapy as identification, socialization, intergenerational sharing, memory stimulation, and self-actualization. As a definition of self-transcendence, it was first defined in British literature by Maslow in 1969 as the highest, most inclusive or holistic consciousness that transcends time, culture and self. Later, Maslow modified the "Hierarchy of Needs" model and reported adding self-actualization as a motivational step. Over time, a middle-class nursing theory named "Self-Transcendence Theory" was developed by Pamela G. Reed (1991). Nursing as a science is thought to be based on the self-transcendence theory developed by Pamela G. Reed for the nursing care they will apply to palliative care patients in a conceptual framework. Because in his theory, Reed argues that individuals who experience chronic illness, loss and aging or who accompany others with these events should face vulnerability. It has been reported that nurses can facilitate the individual's self-transcendence and support the welfare potential of individuals. Meditation, prayer, visualization, life review, structured reminiscence, self-reflection, and journaling are techniques of self-transcendence that nurses can facilitate to help their patients recognize their own patterns of healing. In the light of this information, the aim of this study is to investigate the effect of structured individual reminiscence on symptom management, life satisfaction and self-transcendence of palliative care subordinates.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 48
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Turkey
  • Balikesi̇r
    • Bandirma, Balikesi̇r, Turkey, 10200
      • Recruiting
      • Bandirma Training and Research Hospital
      • Contact: Muzaffer Şenveli, MD; Phone Number: 10999 +90.266 738 00 22; Email: balikesirdhs3@saglik.gov.tr

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Speaking and understanding Turkish
• Those who volunteered to participate in the research
• Inpatient in Palliative Care Service
• Without clinical diagnosis of dementia, cognitive impairment, agitation and delirium
• No hearing or vision problems

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients who are planned to be transferred and/or discharged to another unit/institution within the estimated period of investigation (15 days) by the physician and who do not have a life expectancy

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

3

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: structured individual reminiscence; Sessions, in chronological order; Starting with birth, it is planned to progress through life years by focusing on important events. In the sessions, considering the age and individual characteristics of the patients, the house and region where they were born and raised, childhood and school memories, childhood and school friends, youth years and friends, business life, if any, marriage process, birth of the first child, happy memories about children, successful events, old holidays It is talked about subjects such as unforgettable people or events, happy places to visit, old meals, old items, old songs. In each session, different sensory stimuli (visual, auditory, tactile, smelling, tasting) are used according to the subject.	Other: structured individual reminiscence; reminiscence therapy
Placebo Comparator: unstructured social interview; Unstructured social interviews are conducted on topics such as current events not related to recollection, information specific to the individual patient wants to share, illness/diseases, hobbies, and activities.	Other: unstructured social interview; placebo
No Intervention: Control; There is no intervention other than standard nursing care.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
self-transcendence scale	The change in self-transcendence scores of the patients in the structured individual reminiscence group after the application compared to the pre-application. The self-transcendence scale score ranges from 15 to 60, and an increase in scores indicates that the individual is self-actualizing.	15 days
life satisfaction	The change life satisfaction in scores of the patients in the structured individual reminiscence group after the application compared to the pre-application. The life satisfaction scale score ranges from 5-35, and an increase in the score indicates that the individual's life satisfaction is high.	15 days

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Bandırma Onyedi Eylül University
• Collaborators: Ege University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): November 4, 2021
• Primary Completion (Actual): March 31, 2022
• Study Completion (Estimated): May 25, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: January 2, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 12, 2022
• First Posted (Actual): February 16, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): May 26, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 24, 2023
• Last Verified: May 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: palliative care; well-being; symptom management; life satisfaction; self-transcendence; structured reminiscence
• Other Study ID Numbers: bandirma

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No