More than 80 percent of Americans perceive religion as important. Issues of belief can affect the health care encounter, and patients may wish to discuss spirituality with their physician. Many physicians report barriers to broaching the subject of spirituality, including lack of time and experience, difficulty identifying patients who want to discuss spirituality, and the belief that addressin...

The purpose of this study was to address the importance of spiritual well-being and hope among cancer patients diagnosed with its different stages. Through stratified sampling techniques, 120 cancer patients from four stages evenly divided into male and female participated in this study. Spiritual Well-being Scale (Paloutzian & Ellison, 1982) and Hope Scale (Snyder, Harris, Anderson, et al, 199...

Healthcare professionals express difficulties in delivering spiritual care, despite it being a core component of palliative care national policies. The patient perspective on professional training to address difficulties has not previously been sought. The aim of this study is to describe patient suggestions for development of training to deliver spiritual care. Qualitative semi-structured in-d...

The core hypothesis in this text is that oral tradition, too, as a signi cant component of cultural identity and the main determinant of the folkloristic profession, is a continuous –– historical and contemporary –– process of multi-layered interpretation of repetitive procedures and symbols in the human community, and not an inherited cluster of unquestionable facts, spiritual values and comp...

In contrast, Hoby’s record of her detailed but subjectively opaque daily activities anxiously measures her distance from a template of a well-lived Christian life. In Clifford’s diary, worldly affairs outshine the spiritual events, and, unlike Mildmay and Hoby, she often considers her spiritual life only in reaction to her secular troubles. The final chapter on women’s wills similarly comprises...

The focus of the research project presented in this article is on the structure of the life stories of elderly people living in old age homes and its relationship to wellbeing or quality of life and the quality of the caring relationship. In an experimental design, we are testing the hypothesis that intervention with narrative methods has a positive effect on existential well-being and quality ...

Nurses and health care professionals should have an active role in meeting the spiritual needs of patients in collaboration with the family and the chaplain. Literature criticizes the impaired holistic care because the spiritual dimension is often overlooked by health care professionals. This could be due to feelings of incompetence due to lack of education on spiritual care; lack of inter-prof...

BACKGROUND A majority of people in Western Europe and the USA die in hospitals. Spiritual and existential care is seen to be an integral component of holistic, compassionate and comprehensive palliative care. Yet, several studies show that many nurses are anxious and uncertain about engaging in spiritual and existential care for the dying. The aim of this study is to describe nurses' experience...

Background: Current studies mainly emphasized the spiritual needs and care of cancer and hospice patients; few deal with the other critically ill patients. Aim: This study aimed to describe the spiritual needs and care of ICU patients from nurses’ perspectives. Design: This is a qualitative study. Method: The semi-structured guided interviewing on ICU nurses in a medical center of southern Taiw...

BACKGROUND Patients' spiritual needs increase drastically after a diagnosis of cancer because of its threatening nature. It is very important to recognize any spiritual crisis. This study aimed to determine needs among Iranian patients with cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS This crosssectional study was undertaken among 200 patients with cancer referred to Alinasab and Shahid Ghazi Tabatabaie hos...