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Predictors of spirituality at the end of life.
OBJECTIVE To assess the relationship between spirituality and hopelessness, desire for hastened death, and clinical and disease-related characteristics among patients with advanced cancer, and to investigate predictors of spirituality. Spiritual well-being is thought to have a beneficial effect on patients' response to illness. DESIGN Patients were asked to complete 4 questionnaires: the Gree...
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As dying patients adjust to the irreversible nature of their illness, their needs and focus of care changes. Spiritual issues may become a central concern for them, and addressing these issues can be key to relieving suffering. Physicians, unfortunately, have little training in this area and are often uncomfortable discussing spirituality. In this article, we address the role of spirituality in...
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15 صفحه اولSpirituality and the care of patients at the end-of-life: an essential component of care.
Spirituality is an essential component of the care of patients with serious illness and those that are dying. Dame Cicely Saunders developed the hospice movement based on the biopsychosocialspiritual model of care, in which all four dimensions are important in the care of patients. Of all the models of care, hospice and palliative care recognize the importance of spiritual issues in the care of...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Palliative Medicine
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1096-6218,1557-7740
DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2009.0103