Influence of spirituality in nursing assistance to patients with mental disorders

Introduction: Nursing professionals deal directly, and most of the time, with patients with mental disorders and thus play an essential role in front of the public through different strategies, such as encouraging spirituality in these patients. Objective: To describe the influence of spirituality encouragement in nursing care for patients with mental disorders. Methods: This integrative literature review is carried out in the LILACS, MEDLINE, and BDENF databases. The inclusion criteria were: articles being in full, in the Portuguese language; published between 2016 and 2020. The Ursi instrument and the Bardin content analysis were used to interpret the results. Results: The sample consisted of six articles. The central approach of these articles focused on two axes, the first one entitled: “Spirituality as a change in lifestyle for mental health” and the second one entitled: “Nursing care in mental health through spirituality”. Conclusion: Spirituality contributes to nursing care for patients with mental disorders, helping to reduce stress, improving interpersonal relationships, alleviating suffering and coping with the disease, social reintegration, and protecting against recurrences of new crises and the consumption of alcohol and other drugs.