title: Expectation in Life Review: A Term of Spiritual Needs Easily Understood by Chinese Hospice Patients.
abstract: Terms such as spirituality and spiritual needs are abstract and difficult to understand. Realization of spirituality of hospice patients was premise in addressing expression of their spiritual needs. This study investigated expectations expressed during life review and tried to prove that the expectation was intelligible term for spiritual needs in Chinese hospice from May 2011 to June 2013. Among the 107 recruited patients, families were the most frequent emotion-expressing recipients, and 133 expectations related to patients' spiritual needs were identified. The emotion-expressing recipients and the patient's expectations were not affected by demographic characteristics. The expectations in life review with hospice patients and their families had the features of spiritual essence. The identified expectation contents could be used to address spiritual needs in hospice care in Chinese.
authors: Radiation and Medical Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China Hospice Center of Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
authors: Di
authors: D
authors: Deng
authors: Department of General Surgery, First Affiliated hospital of Changjiang University, Jingzhou, China.
authors: Qing
authors: Q
authors: Deng
authors: National Hospice Service Program, Li Kashing Foundation, Shantou, China.
authors: Xiaofang
authors: X
authors: Liu
authors: Radiation and Medical Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
authors: Cong Hua
authors: CH
authors: Xie
authors: Hospice Center of Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China wuxinbaobei6889@126.com.
authors: Xin
authors: X
authors: Wu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D017051:Hospice Care; D006738:Hospices; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D029181:Spirituality; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D019452:Terminally Ill / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Chinese; expectation; hospice care; life review; spiritual need; spirituality