Spiritual Care for Nasopharyngeal Cancer Patients with Risk of Spiritual Distress: A Case Study
Implementasi Teori Sosial Kogntif Bandura Pada Rencana Asuhan Keperawatan
Abstract
Background : Complications from cancer treatment therapy will cause physical and psychological problems for the rest of their lives. The physical and psychological problems experienced by cancer sufferers will rise spirituality within them. Spirituality sometimes becomes negative when an individual's spiritual needs are not facilitated properly or is called spiritual distress. Spiritual distress can be overcome through khusyuk in prayer therapy which can increase positive motivation and change behavior for the better.
Purpose : This report aims to determine the effect of spiritual care of khusyuk prayer therapy on Nasopharyngeal Cancer patient with risk of spiritual distress to increase their ability to make sense of life and reduce feelings of guilt over their illness.
Result : After doing the khusyuk prayer therapy intervention for 7 days, there was an increase in the patient's self-efficacy and quality of life. This shows that khusyuk prayer therapy can increase positive motivation in patients.
Conclusion : Spiritual care with khusyuk prayer therapy can increase the motivation of nasopharyngeal cancer patients to make behavioral changes.
Keyword : Khusyuk prayer, nasopharyngeal cancer, religious coping, self-efficacy, spiritual distress
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Published
2025-05-30
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PRANATARINI, Nur Azizah; MULYONO, Wastu Adi; SUMARWATI, Made.
Spiritual Care for Nasopharyngeal Cancer Patients with Risk of Spiritual Distress: A Case Study.
Journal of Bionursing, [S.l.], v. 7, n. 2, p. 36-44, may 2025.
ISSN 2685-6484.
Available at: <https://jos.unsoed.ac.id/index.php/job/article/view/12521>. Date accessed: 17 sep. 2025.
doi: https://doi.org/10.20884/1.job.2025.7.2.12521.
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