Category Archive for: "gerontology"

Religious Struggle as a Predictor of Mortality Among Medically Ill Eldery Patients: A 2-Year Longitudinal Study

October 13, 2017 gerontology

BACKGROUND: Although church attendance has been associated with a reduced risk of mortality, no study has examined the impact of religious struggle with an illness on mortality. OBJECTIVE: To [...]
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Religious coping methods as predictors of psychological, physical and spiritual outcomes among medically ill elderly patients: a two-year longitudinal study

October 13, 2017 gerontology

A total of 268 medically ill, elderly, hospitalized patients responded to measures of religious coping and spiritual, psychological and physicalfunctioning at baseline and follow-up two years [...]
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Exploring the spiritual needs of people dying of lung cancer or heart failure: a prospective qualitative interview study of patients and their carers

October 13, 2017 gerontology

BACKGROUND: We set out to explore whether patients with life-threatening illnesses and their informal carers consider they experience significant spiritual needs, in the context of their [...]
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Validation of the Spiritual Distress Assessment Tool in older hospitalized patients

October 13, 2017 gerontology, Uncategorized

BACKGROUND: The Spiritual Distress Assessment Tool (SDAT) is a 5-item instrument developed to assess unmet spiritual needs in hospitalized elderly patients and to determine the presence [...]
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