background: researches indicated that spirituality in workplace and ethical leadership have important role in creating and developing of psychological capital. for this reason, main purpose of this research was to study simple and multiple relationships between spirituality in workplace and ethical leadership with psychological capital. methods: research method of this study is a descriptive-co...

INTRODUCTION Studies on the relationship between spirituality and health are increasingly common in the international literature, showing the association of spirituality with lower levels of depression and anxiety, better quality of life, and lower hospitalization and mortality rates. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the relationship between spirituality/religiosity and health in dialysis patients. M...

BACKGROUND Religion and spirituality remain important social and psychological factors in the lives of older adults, and there is continued interest in examining the effects of religion and spirituality on health status. The purpose of this study was to examine the interaction of religion and spirituality with self-reported health status in a community-dwelling geriatric population. METHODS W...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the current status of teaching on spirituality in medicine in UK medical schools and to establish if and how medical schools are preparing future doctors to identify patients' spiritual needs. METHODS We carried out a national questionnaire survey using a 2-part questionnaire. Section A contained questions relating to the quantity of teaching on spirituality and the t...

Spirituality has been identified as an important dimension of quality-of-life. The objective of this study was to review the literature on quality-of-life and spirituality, their association, and assessment tools. A search was conducted of the keyterms 'quality-of-life' and 'spirituality' in abstract or title in the databases PsycINFO and PubMed/Medline between 1979-2005, complemented by a new ...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To examine the theoretical congruency between uncertainty and spirituality at the end of life (EOL). DATA SOURCES Relevant empirical and theoretical articles using the key words spirituality, uncertainty, terminal illness, and similar derivatives were drawn from the databases of CINAHL®, MEDLINE®, PsycINFO, and SocINDEX. DATA SYNTHESIS Spirituality and uncertainty were co...

Every ethos implies a mythos in the sense that every systematic approach to ethics is inevitably based on some fundamental religious or religion-like story that gives answers to questions such as: Where did I come from? Where am I going? How am I to live? These narratives generally lay hidden beneath the plane of the interpersonal interactions that characterize all clinical encounters, but cari...

The decline of attention to the facade of modernity and the inclination toward spirituality and theism in the third millennium is the evidence of human natural tendency toward spirituality, theism, and faith. This is, also, to some extent connected to discussions of identity and semantics in organizations. This paper tries to review the works of researchers on spirituality and theism along with...

Objective: To review scientific literature relating to the spiritual dimension of children and adolescents with cancer. Methods: We conducted an integrative literature review in the LILACS, SciELO, PsycINFO and MEDLINE databases in the period between 1990 to 2011. Results: Twenty-one studies were analyzed and grouped into thematic categories: quality of life and elements of spirituality; altern...

Often religion and spirituality are used interchangeably. Spirituality may or may not include religion, which is related to an organized institution. Spirituality on the other hand is the transcendent relationship between the person and a higher being, a quality that goes beyond a specific religious application (Peterson & Nelson 1989). Both religion and spirituality offer a sense of meaning an...