Category Archive for: "oncology"

Religion as an empowerment context in the narrative of women with breast cancer

January 21, 2019 oncology, women

This qualitative study out of Iran involved interview with eight breast cancer patients. (From the abstract:) Two main themes discovered in this research were fatalism on the one hand, and the [...]
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Case Study of a Chaplain’s Spiritual Care for a Patient with Advanced Metastatic Breast Cancer

January 21, 2019 oncology, palliative care, thanatology

The case study seeks to describe an oncology chaplain’s pastoral relationship with a 64-year-old woman with advanced metastatic breast cancer. The patient’s distress was complicated [...]
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Nurse Spiritual Therapeutics Scale: Psychometric evaluation among cancer patients.

November 24, 2018 oncology

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To translate and validate the Nurse Spiritual Therapeutics Scale (NSTS) among cancer patients in Beijing, China. BACKGROUND: Spirituality is an essential and integrating [...]
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Taking Refuge in Spirituality, a Main Strategy of Parents of Children with Cancer: a Qualitative Study

October 22, 2018 oncology

Due to the rise in prevalence of childhood cancer the impact on family caregivers is increasing. Spirituality may be an alleviating factor for improving the quality of parent life. There is a [...]
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TC Fellow published in Supportive Care in Cancer

October 12, 2018 News, oncology, patient reporting

Transforming Chaplaincy Fellow Petra Sprik recently co-authored an article in Supportive Care in Cancer. You can read the abstract to “Using patient-reported religious/spiritual concerns to [...]
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