Ensuring quality of life in patients with cancer is a key priority because the growing number of survivors experience many different disease-related physical, psychological, and social effects, as well as treatment-related symptoms. Healthrelated quality of life (HRQOL) has become increasingly important in relation to patient outcomes and is recognized as a patient-reported, multidimensional co...

Background Spiritual leadership and spirituality in organizations have the capacity to develop individual and organizational outcomes. This concept, as a newly established paradigm, has many ambiguities and definitions highly affected by cultural contexts. Objective This study aimed at determining the concept of spiritual leadership from nurses' perspective and recognizing aspects of spiritua...

BACKGROUND Worldwide, disaster exposure and consequences are rising. Disaster risk in New Zealand is amplified by island geography, isolation, and ubiquitous natural hazards. Wellington, the capital city, has vital needs for evacuation preparedness and resilience to the devastating impacts and increasing uncertainties of earthquake and tsunami disasters. While poor quality of life (QoL) is wide...

a bstract background: spiritual care should be considered an important part of holistic and multidisciplinary care and it has not been given much importance so far. we should begin with student nurses, who will soon be clinicians, to fi nd out about potentiality of the nursing profession to put spiritual care into practice. little has been known about spiritual well-being, spirituality, and spi...

The theory of Ayurveda rests on the concepts of matter, vital principle, mind, and pure consciousness. It is a holistic theory of medicine, which aims at restoration of physical and mental health, and spiritual well-being in a sick person, so that he may self-actualize himself, and eventually, realize his nature as pure consciousness. Modern Western medicine tries to reduce consciousness, and v...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to use a qualitative approach to better understand the importance and efficacy of addressing spiritual issues within an interdisciplinary bone marrow transplant clinic from the perspectives of patients and healthcare providers. SETTING Participants were recruited from the bone marrow transplant clinic of a large urban outpatient cancer care centre in w...

Protective factors for fostering reasons for living were examined among low-income, suicidal, African American women. Bivariate logistic regressions revealed that higher levels of optimism, spiritual well-being, and family social support predicted reasons for living. Multivariate logistic regressions indicated that spiritual well-being showed unique predictive value for reasons for living. Furt...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether interventions that promote meditation improve quality of life in cancer patients. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE data bank (1966 to 2004) using the terms "spiritual well-being" and the MeSH terms "meditation", "neoplasm", "cancer", and "spiritual therapies". STUDY SELECTION Clinical trials evaluating the effect of meditation on cancer patients. SYNTHESIS Five studies we...