Cuidados paliativos nas mídias sociais: revisão integrativa de literatura

The study presented in this article aims to identify publications which reveal how palliative care is approached on social media. It is an integrative literature review, using search of articles in the bases Medical  Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (Medline), Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences  Literature (Lilacs) and Scientifi Electronic Library Online (SciELO), in Portuguese, English and Spanish  languages. Fifteen articles that met the proposed selection criteria were selected, and they are presented  here through the construction of a synoptic table, containing the title of the study, the journal in which  it was published, its publication date and the specifi approaches to palliative care in social media. The  results of the studies demonstrate that the palliative care needs to be better disseminated on social media.  However, caution should be taken while such dissemination occuring, in order to prevent risks damaging  the quality of information and to follow ethical issues involving patients and health professionals. The role  of nurses in health education actions regarding the palliative care should be highlighted.