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This study aims to identify the nursing interventions of spiritual nature developed over 5 years in the abovementioned setting, thus characterizing the Portuguese reality; (2) Methods: Observational, cross-sectional and quantitative study, based on a sample comprising all users who attended a community Mental health nursing consultation, from March 2015, to 31 December 2019; (3) Results: A total of 205 nursing appointments were performed, from which emerged a set of 346 diagnoses, resulting in 455 nursing interventions. Of the latter, some deserve to be highlighted, due to a greater prevalence: \u201clistening\u201d (61; 13%), \u201csupporting\u201d (38; 8%), \u201cpromoting self-esteem\u201d (37; 8%), \u201cmonitoring vital signs\u201d (31; 7%), and \u201cidentifying attitude towards care\u201d (25; 5%); (4) Conclusions: even though some of the interventions performed during the consultations were associated with the spiritual dimension, the collected data points towards a need for new diagnoses and nursing interventions, namely, those which may help mitigate spiritual distress.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rel11110618","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,11,19]],"date-time":"2020-11-19T10:46:26Z","timestamp":1605782786000},"page":"618","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Community Mental Health Nursing Consultation in a Public Bathhouse: A Spiritual Coping Resource"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2908-4052","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Am\u00e9lia","family":"Sim\u00f5es Figueiredo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Health, Institute of Health Sciences, Universidade Cat\u00f3lica Portuguesa, 1649-023 Lisbon, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5109-9504","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Teresa","family":"Rasquilho Vidal","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Health Sciences, Universidade Cat\u00f3lica Portuguesa, 1649-023 Lisbon, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2834-8573","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"C\u00e2ndida","family":"Ferrito","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Health, Institute of Health Sciences, Universidade Cat\u00f3lica Portuguesa, 1649-023 Lisbon, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5330-779X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jo\u00e3o","family":"Neves-Amado","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Health, Institute of Health Sciences, Universidade Cat\u00f3lica Portuguesa, 4169-005 Porto, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2004-0803","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Alexandra","family":"Sarreira-Santos","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Health Sciences, Universidade Cat\u00f3lica Portuguesa, 1649-023 Lisbon, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5390-1820","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lurdes","family":"Medeiros-Garcia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Health Sciences, Universidade Cat\u00f3lica Portuguesa, 1649-023 Lisbon, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7895-6083","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Juan","family":"Rold\u00e1n-Merino","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Campus Docent Sant Joan de D\u00e9u, Escuela Universitaria de Enfermer\u00eda Adscrita a la Universidad de Barcelona, 08034 Barcelona, Spain"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7652-7106","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Antonia","family":"Vollrath Ramirez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Regi\u00f3n Metropolitana, Escuela de Enfermeria, Santiago 8320000, Chile"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,11,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Amado, Jo\u00e3o Neves, Festas, Constan\u00e7a, Braga, Clara, and Vieira, Maragarida (, January March). 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