This case report shares a nursing experience that applied Swanson's Caring Theory as part of the care regimen for a terminal lung cancer patient suffering from spiritual distress. The nursing care was provided from March 20th to April 25th, 2012. Data were collected through observation and conversation and recorded using sketches and written notes. The nurse assessed the patient's relationships...

OBJECTIVE to investigate the use of religious/spiritual coping among people with cancer undergoing chemotherapy. METHODS a quantitative, descriptive and cross-sectional study of 101 patients undergoing intravenous chemotherapy in an oncology outpatients center in a public hospital in Minas Gerais, made in the first semester of 2011. For data collection, an interview was held, using a question...

OBJECTIVE This pilot study was designed to describe changes in spiritual well-being (SWB), spiritual coping, and quality of life (QOL) in patients with brain cancer or other neurodegenerative diseases participating in a chaplain-led spiritual life review interview and development of a spiritual legacy document (SLD). METHODS Eligible participants were enrolled and completed baseline questionn...

BACKGROUND Many efforts have been made to better integrate spiritual assessment into the care of patients with cancer, with varying degrees of success in different parts of the United States. Little work has been done to describe challenges that face those who seek to implement assessment in busy ambulatory settings, particularly in the northeastern section of the United States. OBJECTIVES Th...

Background: During the past three decades, the concepts of recovery and person-centredness have become familiar in mental health policy, practice and research, as well as in the voicing of service users’ experiences of moving from mental distress and processes towards wellbeing and citizenship. Recovery, like person-centredness, is about a person retaining and keeping control over their life si...

This paper shows similarities and differences in perceptions and competences regarding spirituality and spiritual care of nurses in different health care settings. Research on this specific topic is limited and can contribute towards a nuanced implementation of spiritual care in different nursing care settings. Four hundred forty nine nurses in different health care settings completed a questio...

Time is a limited product for every person. Nowadays time poverty an emerging issue and symptom of more fundamental problems. A man said to be time-poor if he/she not able allocate their properly among all the activities, which leads poor health, mental stress, low productivity reduced wellbeing. The essential target review investigate effect from perspectives divine economics framework. existi...

Rivers provide a range of Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES) such as aesthetic values, sense place and inspiration, which remain insufficiently studied due to challenges associated with the assessment their subjective intangible attributes. However, understanding CES remains important they are strongly linked human wellbeing. This study utilizes questionnaire-based survey capture views from two ...

The biopsychosocial model is a modern humanistic and holistic view of the human being in health sciences. Currently, many researchers think the biopsychosocial model should be expanded to include the spiritual dimension as well. However, "spiritual" is an open and fluid concept, and it can refer to many different things. This paper intends to explore the spiritual dimension in all its meanings:...