The notion of "spiritual capital" has been the subject of growing interest in recent years; however, the concept remains poorly defined. Based on a review of the academic literature and on interviews and focus groups conducted with leaders and volunteers of over fifteen NGOs and community groups in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, this paper proposes a preliminary conceptual framework for understan...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To examine the differences among secular, traditional, and religious Israeli oncology nurses' intrinsic religiosity, extrinsic religiosity, spiritual well-being, and attitudes toward spiritual care. DESIGN A comparative, descriptive study. SAMPLE 148 Israeli Jewish nurses drawn from the membership of the Israeli Oncology Nursing Association. METHODS Nurses completed mai...

Early in the naughties (90s) we asked question 'How do our client see us?' The answer was clear - as a school that prioritised care and nurture. That gave us an opportunity to buy into intentionally or try change that. We decided deeply.

BACKGROUND Although nurses acknowledge that spiritual care is part of their role, in reality, it is performed to a lesser extent. The purpose of the present study was to explore nurses' and patients' experiences about the conditions of spiritual care and spiritual interventions in the oncology units of Tabriz. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study was conducted with a qualitative conventional cont...

Spiritual cares in nursery are those that are presented by the nurse and are related to their experiences about meaning, purpose, religion and spirit-uality. Spirituality and spiritual cares are two separated categories considering certain dimension of care. Spiritual competence in spiritual care refers to a set of skills that can be used in clinical nursery process (1). The tool used to measur...

Spas are places that enable mind, body and spiritual harmony, therefore inextricably linked to the pursuit of health wellbeing, as one most prominent forms wellness tourism. Recent growth in global spa industry is fuelled by increasing consumer interest wellness. Concepts within remain largely unexplored, thus, this conceptual paper aims progress our understanding considering opportunities for ...

Muslim students' wellbeing is said to be impacted by zikr meditation because it fosters a sense of connection between the self and nature. Consequently, this study attempts look into how being in nature might help university ecopsychological, spiritual, physical, mental wellbeing. Using random selection method, assigned 160 students either (i) engage or (ii) not both green outdoor indoor settin...

Spirituality draws people to places of worship, prayer, meditation, sacred dance, mountain tops or other inspirational activity. Some of us find spirituality through religion; others find it through science, music, art or a connection with Nature, while still others find it in their personal values and principles. No matter how it’s defined, this elusive entity describes the way we find meaning...

Religiosity and spirituality are important factors for recovery of alcohol-addicted individuals. Previous studies have given some suggestions about the spiritual mechanism that influences wellbeing representatives this group. The purpose research was to examine whether religious practices experiences indirectly related, through optimism duration abstinence, happiness alcohol-dependent individua...