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McPhail, Paula, Sandhu, Harbinder, Dale, Jeremy and Stewart-Brown, Sarah L. (2018) Acupuncture in hospice settings : a qualitative exploration of patients’ experiences. European Journal of Cancer Care, 27 (2). e12802. doi:10.1111/ecc.12802 ISSN 0961-5423.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecc.12802
Abstract
Whilst acupuncture has the potential to impact on many aspects of health and well‐being, including end‐of‐life care, there is little research regarding patients’ experiences of its effects within the context of palliative care in hospice settings. The aim of this study was to address this gap, by exploring patients’ experiences of acupuncture within this setting. In‐depth, semi‐structured interviews were conducted with a sample of eighteen patients who had received acupuncture as part of hospice care. Transcription of data, with thematic analysis, identified two overarching themes: (1) participant perceptions of the effects of acupuncture including pain control, improved physical and emotional health, spiritual well‐being and awareness of health as a holistic phenomenon; and (2) factors which participants believed enabled acupuncture to have these effects including the quality of the practitioner relationship, engagement of participants in the process of their treatment and prior expectations that acupuncture could work. Acupuncture was found to be a highly acceptable, accessible and popular treatment with positive holistic effects reported across the domains of physical, mental and spiritual health and no serious adverse effects. By enabling awareness of the holistic nature of health and well‐being, acupuncture was experienced as having the potential to contribute to a better death, an emergent theory that needs testing in further studies. In the meanwhile, the results of this study offer encouragement to hospices currently providing or considering investing in acupuncture provision.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine R Medicine > RC Internal medicine R Medicine > RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Statistics and Epidemiology Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Acupuncture , Hospice care, Hospices (Terminal care) , Palliative treatment , Patient satisfaction, Patient advocacy | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | European Journal of Cancer Care | ||||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0961-5423 | ||||||||
Official Date: | March 2018 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 27 | ||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||
Article Number: | e12802 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/ecc.12802 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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