Spiritual reminiscence therapy for older people with loneliness, anxiety and depression living in a residential aged care facility, Malaysia: A qualitative approach

Objective: To explore how older people with loneliness, anxiety and depression experience a spiritual reminiscence therapy (SRT) program and to explore its acceptability within the Malaysian population. Methods: Unstructured observations and a focus-group discussion were carried out with 18 par...

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Main Authors:	Syed Elias, Sharifah Munirah, Petriwskyj, Andrea, Scott, Theresa, Neville, Christine
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Language:	English English English
Published:	Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2019
Subjects:	RT Nursing
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spelling	iium-676392019-04-23T01:24:02Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/67639/ Spiritual reminiscence therapy for older people with loneliness, anxiety and depression living in a residential aged care facility, Malaysia: A qualitative approach Syed Elias, Sharifah Munirah Petriwskyj, Andrea Scott, Theresa Neville, Christine RT Nursing Objective: To explore how older people with loneliness, anxiety and depression experience a spiritual reminiscence therapy (SRT) program and to explore its acceptability within the Malaysian population. Methods: Unstructured observations and a focus-group discussion were carried out with 18 participants involved in a six-week SRT program in a residential care facility in Kuala Lumpur. Results: Analysis revealed four themes: (i) Enthusiastic participation; (ii) Connections across boundaries; (iii) Expressing and reflecting; and (iv) Successful use of triggers. Conclusions: The findings suggest that the process of reminiscence, on which the program was based, was enjoyable for the participants and created opportunities to form connections with other members of the group. The use of relevant triggers in the SRT program that related to Malaysian cultures, ethnicities and religions was helpful to engage the participants and was acceptable across the different religions and ethnicities. Policy Impact: The findings contribute to understanding social identity theory. Shared spiritual identity is possible in multiethnic and multireligious populations through connecting across different religions and finding similarities from shared memories and stories. Practice Impact: Spiritual reminiscence therapy is a worthwhile program for older people with loneliness, anxiety and depression, and future development of spiritual reminiscence therapy among older people living in residential aged care facilities is supported. Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2019-03 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/67639/1/67639_Spiritual%20reminiscence%20therapy_article.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/67639/2/67639_Spiritual%20reminiscence%20therapy_wos.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/67639/3/67639_Spiritual%20reminiscence%20therapy_scopus.pdf Syed Elias, Sharifah Munirah and Petriwskyj, Andrea and Scott, Theresa and Neville, Christine (2019) Spiritual reminiscence therapy for older people with loneliness, anxiety and depression living in a residential aged care facility, Malaysia: A qualitative approach. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 38 (1). E25-E30. ISSN 1440-6381 E-ISSN 1741-6612 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ajag.12598 10.1111/ajag.12598
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spellingShingle	RT Nursing Syed Elias, Sharifah Munirah Petriwskyj, Andrea Scott, Theresa Neville, Christine Spiritual reminiscence therapy for older people with loneliness, anxiety and depression living in a residential aged care facility, Malaysia: A qualitative approach
description	Objective: To explore how older people with loneliness, anxiety and depression experience a spiritual reminiscence therapy (SRT) program and to explore its acceptability within the Malaysian population. Methods: Unstructured observations and a focus-group discussion were carried out with 18 participants involved in a six-week SRT program in a residential care facility in Kuala Lumpur. Results: Analysis revealed four themes: (i) Enthusiastic participation; (ii) Connections across boundaries; (iii) Expressing and reflecting; and (iv) Successful use of triggers. Conclusions: The findings suggest that the process of reminiscence, on which the program was based, was enjoyable for the participants and created opportunities to form connections with other members of the group. The use of relevant triggers in the SRT program that related to Malaysian cultures, ethnicities and religions was helpful to engage the participants and was acceptable across the different religions and ethnicities. Policy Impact: The findings contribute to understanding social identity theory. Shared spiritual identity is possible in multiethnic and multireligious populations through connecting across different religions and finding similarities from shared memories and stories. Practice Impact: Spiritual reminiscence therapy is a worthwhile program for older people with loneliness, anxiety and depression, and future development of spiritual reminiscence therapy among older people living in residential aged care facilities is supported.
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author	Syed Elias, Sharifah Munirah Petriwskyj, Andrea Scott, Theresa Neville, Christine
author_facet	Syed Elias, Sharifah Munirah Petriwskyj, Andrea Scott, Theresa Neville, Christine
author_sort	Syed Elias, Sharifah Munirah
title	Spiritual reminiscence therapy for older people with loneliness, anxiety and depression living in a residential aged care facility, Malaysia: A qualitative approach
title_short	Spiritual reminiscence therapy for older people with loneliness, anxiety and depression living in a residential aged care facility, Malaysia: A qualitative approach
title_full	Spiritual reminiscence therapy for older people with loneliness, anxiety and depression living in a residential aged care facility, Malaysia: A qualitative approach
title_fullStr	Spiritual reminiscence therapy for older people with loneliness, anxiety and depression living in a residential aged care facility, Malaysia: A qualitative approach
title_full_unstemmed	Spiritual reminiscence therapy for older people with loneliness, anxiety and depression living in a residential aged care facility, Malaysia: A qualitative approach
title_sort	spiritual reminiscence therapy for older people with loneliness, anxiety and depression living in a residential aged care facility, malaysia: a qualitative approach
publisher	Blackwell Publishing Ltd
publishDate	2019
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/67639/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/67639/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/67639/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/67639/1/67639_Spiritual%20reminiscence%20therapy_article.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/67639/2/67639_Spiritual%20reminiscence%20therapy_wos.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/67639/3/67639_Spiritual%20reminiscence%20therapy_scopus.pdf
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Spiritual reminiscence therapy for older people with loneliness, anxiety and depression living in a residential aged care facility, Malaysia: A qualitative approach

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