The acceptability of the Revie ⊕ intervention: Nurses’ perceptions and experiences
Persons with advanced cancer experience high levels of existential distress due to being confronted with their mortality. This leads to feelings of loss of meaning or discouragement. It is important to develop interventions to relieve existential distress so as to promote the dignity of persons with advanced cancer in order to help them live this difficult experience in the best possible way. A new intervention, called Revie ⊕, carried out by nurses, has been developed. A feasibility study was conducted with forty-one patients with advanced cancer in both the outpatient and inpatient hospital departments of a university hospital in Switzerland in order to determine the acceptability of Revie ⊕. The purpose of this article is to present the intervention’s acceptability from the perspective of the nurses. Nurses conducting the intervention were asked to complete a questionnaire, keep personal notes, and to participate in one focus group. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the questionnaire. Thematic analysis was used to analyze the nurses’ personal notes and focus group data. Results indicate that nurses consider Revie ⊕ to be a beneficial intervention for patients and also for their own professional attitude. As a consequence, the nurses would like it to be implemented into practice. Recommendations are proposed to promote further implementation
Keywords
- life review intervention
- dignity
- advanced cancer
- nursing intervention
- thematic analysis