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MARTINS, Rosa et al. Hope in Hospitalized Patients on Continuous Care Units. Revista Portuguesa de Enfermagem de Saúde Mental [online]. 2017, n.spe5, pp.81-85. ISSN 1647-2160.  https://doi.org/10.19131/rpesm.0172.

BACKGROUND: The vulnerability of the human person emerges when the disease appears as a threat, causing demoralization, despair and suffering. The binomial health / disease appears to be affected positively by hope, helping the person / family to deal with the uncertainties of the future more effectively. AIM: To assess levels of hope in patients admitted to Continuous Care Units (CCU), and to identify sociodemographic, clinical, and psychosocial determinants correlated with this construct. METHODS: Quantitative, transversal, descriptive and correlational study. It was performed in two CCU of the central region of Portugal and the questionnaire was applied to 92 patients, with a mean age of 74.39 years. The data collection instrument integrated, sociodemographic, clinical, Hope Scale (Herth Hope Index), the Quality of Life Scale (Functinal Assessement of Cancer Therapy) and Sleep Questionnaire Oviedo. RESULTS: The data show that 45.7% of the respondents present less hope, 39.1% high hope and 15.2% moderate hope. Only the Quality of Life, "functional well-being" and the "adverse phenomena" of the sleep scale correlate significantly (p = 0.000; p = 0.035) with the expectation explaining respectively 55.2% and 31.1% of their variance. The gender, age, marital status, professional status, schooling, monthly income, typology and number of hospitalizations showed no correlation with hope. CONCLUSIONS: Hope is a belief or virtue inherent in man, which assumes different levels, and accompanies the human being in the process of living and dying conditioning adjustments in times of crisis, affecting and / or being affected by the well-being and quality of life.

Palavras-chave : Hope; Patients; Continuing Care; Quality of Life.

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