Methods
As the nursing activities of the Spiritual Support
intervention had not previously been systematically
investigated in the Czech Republic, a pilot study
using focus groups was conducted (Kisvetrová and
Kutnohorská, 2010). The outcomes of the pilot
study were used as the basis for setting the main
objectives for the study reported in the present
paper. Although the international classification NIC
was developed in the USA, which has a different
culture to the Czech Republic, the pilot study found
that some of the Spiritual Support interventions
may be valid for the Czech Republic (Kisvetrová
and Kutnohorská, 2010).