Table1.

Characteristics of the articles

Reference no.	Researcher/Year	Attributes	Antecedents	Consequences
5	Coventry/2006	Dignity is an inner feeling of being good, personal valuation and self-esteem. Preserving HD is not limited to clinical environments and involves all patients in various areas of the community. HD is influenced by the relationship with others.	In order to provide care services while preserving HD, one needs to get help first and foremost. In order to preserve HD, autonomy of patients and respect for their individuality must be taken into account. Providing care services while preserving HD requires truth- clarification, observance of patients’ rights, and equity in care provision.	Taking HD into account leads to providing care that considers patients’ values and beliefs and their cultural diversity. Providing health care services by preserving HD brings about patients’ respect and strengthens their independence.
14	Pleschberger/2007	Dignity is rooted in people’s beliefs. Dignity is influenced by social relationships, including those with family and friends.	Disease and the need for care threaten HD.
24	Slettebø et al./2009		Providing patients with relevant information about the disease helps them maintain their HD. If patients are neglected by staff or are faced with staff who lack adequate knowledge, their HD will be threatened.	The sense of HD improves patients’ ability to cope with their disease and gives them a sense of meaningfulness in life.
9	Lin et al./ 2011	HD is based on the values, attitudes and perceptions of individuals. HD is a cultural concept.	Preserving information about the disease and meeting the needs of patients will enhance their dignity.	Preserving HD increases patients’ satisfaction with care services.
2	Ebrahimi et al./2012		Taking patients’ privacy into consideration and effective communication with care workers lead to the preservation of HD. The paucity of supplies such as blankets and linen in the ward, which prevents patients from using the existing facilities and leads to admission into a dirty and noisy ward, adversely affects their HD.
27	Lindwall et al./ 2012		HD is promoted in patients through nurses’ moral responsibility in taking care of patients. Restricting patients undermines their HD.
26	Bagheri et al./ 2012		Having authority in interpersonal relationships plays a role in promoting HD.
28	Holmberg et al./2012			Preserving HD improves patients’ self-esteem and their trust in nurses.
15	Hall et al./2013	HD forms the essence of patient care.		Preserving HD helps patients with their lives in the future. Violation of HD in patient care leads to spiritual and psychological distress and loss of the will to survive.
19	Hamooleh et al./2013	HD is an important concept in care that considers the integrity of patients and sees them as human beings to the very last moment of their life.	HD-based care services provision comprises respect for patients, paying attention to their values and empathy. HD is achieved by respecting patients’ values.
17	Lohne et al./2014	HD is a complex concept combined with elements such as respect, assurance and security for patients.
12	Hall et al./ 2014	HD is an important aspect of a person's quality of life structure.	Preserving HD in old age is possible through respect, observing their privacy and autonomy, and considering elderly people as human beings.
22	Cheraghi et al./2014	HD is based on social, cultural, religious and spiritual factors.	Respecting patients and providing patient-centered care are effective in providing HD-based care
10	Manookian et al./2014	All humans have dignity and must always be respected, but patients deserve special attention in this respect.	From patients’ point of view, factors promoting patients’ HD include respect for human nature and the rights of patient’s companions.
18	Cheraghi et al./2015	Taking HD into consideration means regarding patients as human beings and not as objects. In patient care, HD is characterized by equality of all human beings.		Taking HD into consideration leads to providing care services based on kindness and affection.
16	Papastavrou et al./2016	Respect for HD is one of the essential parts of care.	Considering patients as unique human beings, paying attention to their preferences, confidentiality, and preserving their privacy and autonomy are factors that help promote HD.
20	Gysels et al./2016	HD is a fixed value in end-of- life care.	Having a disease is a threat to people’s dignity.
25	Borhani et al./2016		Paying attention to the needs of patients at the time of admission and after discharge, and the proper nurse-patient relationship are effective factors on preserving patients’ dignity.	Preserving HD will make patients feel that they matter to the care system.
13	Bagheri et al./ 2016	Dignity is an intrinsic characteristic of human existence that is experienced mentally.	Violation of patient privacy, lack of patients’ participation in the decision-making processes and lack of support threaten patients’ dignity.
21	Granero-Molina et al./2016	HD is one of the pillars of good death for patients at the end of life stage.	Lack of proper space in the ward to provide patients with end of life care and lack of palliative care services lead to a decline in HD.
23	Høy et al./ 2016	Preserving HD is an important goal in caring for the elderly people.		Preserving HD in providing care services causes patients to have fewer problems adapting to the community. Violation of HD harms patients.