The traditional health care system in Ghana is a holistic one that integrates our social ethics, religious morals and cultural values. We believe that the health of an individual has a link with the metaphysical and supernatural world; with the Creator, divinities and ancestral spirits. With this belief, disease has a spiritual dimension. In spite of this the scientific theory of disease is als...

After Christians, Muslims represent the largest religious grouping in the UK. According to census statistics, there are approximately 1.6 million Muslims in the UK, approximately 54% of who were born outside of the UK. There has been emerging interest in the use of traditional healers by South Asians in the UK. Early studies by Aslam3 and Healey & Aslam4 focused upon health seeking behaviour am...

BACKGROUND Spiritual well-being (SWB) is an important quality-of-life dimension for cancer patients in the palliative phase. Therefore, it is important for healthcare professionals to recognize the concept of SWB from the patient's point of view. A deeper understanding of how patients experience and reflect upon these issues might influence patient care. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was t...

RATIONALE The austere setting of the intensive care unit (ICU) can suppress expressions of spirituality. OBJECTIVES To describe how family members and clinicians experience and express spirituality during the dying process in a 21-bed medical-surgical ICU. METHODS Reflecting the care of 70 dying patients, we conducted 208 semistructured qualitative interviews with 76 family members and 150 ...

UNLABELLED Impairment of the Self has been described in frontal-temporal dementia but little research has been carried out in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to explore changes in the self in patients with AD. METHOD Forty-seven patients with mild to moderate AD were examined using a semi-structured scale designed to assess the self-concept along ...

W hen it comes to discerning a spiritual dimension in occupational therapy, it helps to consider the kind of seeing that causes three-dimensional picrures to emerge from designs called steteograms. Stereograms are patrerns of brightly rendered bands or figures, their overall effect much like gift wrapping. Experts give this cue for finding the rhird dimension: Gaze through the patrern to some p...

Even though psychotic disorders can have debilitating effects, many clinicians and researchers have observed that some psychotic episodes result in improvements in an individual’s functioning. Karl Menninger, often recognized as a founder of American psychiatry, noted: “Some patients have a mental illness and then get well and then they get weller! I mean they get better than they ever were. Th...

<p class="abstrak">The objective of this article is to examine the spiritual philosophy Ibn al-‘Arabi especially stages start from religious teaching aspects (exoteric) and (esoteric). The complexity al-‘Arabi’s teachings needs be investigate respond accusations conservative groups that state practices done by spiritualists are deviant even considered as strange behavior a symptom mental ...

PURPOSE Some major competitions (e.g. London Olympics, 2012) are scheduled during the Ramadan fasting month. Little attention has been given to explore the archers' performance related subjective experiences with a qualitative method. Therefore, this study addressed individual archers' subjective experiences within the framework of self-regulation during Ramadan. METHODS Eleven elite Malaysia...