“ Spirituality ” and Sensation

Relationship between Spirituality and sensation seeking with tanatophobia in hemodialysis patients

       Patients are exposed to stressors such as death anxiety despite the effectiveness of hemodialysis in renal failure. The aim of this study was to investigate relationship between spiritual well-being and sensation seeking with death anxiety in hemodialysis patients. The statistical population included 215 hemodialysis patients in 2013 that 138 patients wer...

Spirituality, music and psychiatry

Religion and spirituality.

Many clients highly value religious and spiritual (R/S) commitments, and many psychotherapists have accommodated secular treatments to R/S perspectives. We meta-analyzed 51 samples from 46 studies (N = 3,290) that examined the outcomes of religious accommodative therapies and nonreligious spirituality therapies. Comparisons on psychological and spiritual outcomes were made to a control conditio...

Nursing and spirituality.

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the spiritual well-being of nurses; to appraise their opinions as to the importance of offering patients spiritual assistance, and to verify whether nurses received any specific type of preparation during their professional training for giving spiritual assistance to patients. METHODS This is an exploratory and descriptive study, carried out with a sample of 30 nurses w...

‘ Religion , Spirituality and Psychiatry ’

Introduction: Religion is an important constituent of culture or the way of life of a society. Man’s faith is as old as humankind itself. Priests and physicians were often the same individuals in different civilizations (Bhugra 1996). For a considerable time, psychologists and psychiatrists have largely neglected this important area of human experience. Over the last few years, however, a subst...