Desafios na comunicação entre paciente, familiares/cuidadores e profissionais da saúde em cuidados paliativos: revisão integrativa

Abstract

Palliative Care (PC) configures a set of practices directed at the patient who has a lifethreatening illness, which aims to provide comfort and quality of life. In Brazil, this practice began to be consolidated in the late 1970s, but there are still gaps in its dissemination and communication. The study proposes an integrative review of the national scientific production on the Challenges of communication in PC. The review was carried out using the Lilacs, Medline and Scielo databases, using two combinations of descriptors: “Palliative Care”, “Communication” and “Challenges”, and later “Palliative Care”, “Challenges” and “Adult”. A total of 68 available articles were found, after the article selection stage, 34 were excluded because they were duplicated, and another 12, because they did not have relationship with the theme, thus, 23 articles remained for analysis. It is concluded that despite the challenges in communication in PC were pointed out by the triad family, patient and health professionals, the latter are the ones that present the greatest divergences and can benefit from National Policies that regularize the teaching of PC in theirtraining .