Category Archive for: "palliative care"

The Role of Spirituality and Religious Coping in the Quality of Life of Patients with Advanced Cancer Receiving Palliative Radiation Therapy

August 31, 2019 oncology, palliative care, quality of life

Objectives: National palliative care guidelines outline spiritual care as a domain of palliative care, yet patients’ religiousness and/or spirituality (R/S) are underappreciated in the palliative [...]
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A Palliative Care Specific Spiritual Assessment: How This Story Evolved

August 25, 2019 assessment, palliative care

This article reflects a project to create, refine, and use a palliative care specific spiritual assessment, with the intent to implement its use for both an inpatient Palliative Consult Service [...]
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The Relief of Existential Suffering

August 25, 2019 palliative care

Advanced and progressive illnesses bring existential suffering to patients as an inevitable consequence of the disease and its treatment. Physicians need a typology of existential distress to aid [...]
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The Landscape of Distress in the Terminally Ill

August 25, 2019 palliative care

Understanding the complexities of distress and knowing who is most vulnerable is foundational to the provision of quality, palliative end-of-life care. Although prior studies have examined the [...]
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Which items on the distress thermometer problem list are the most distressing?

August 4, 2019 oncology, palliative care

To determine the feasibility and measure the effects of chaplain-led picture-guided spiritual care for mechanically ventilated adults in the intensive care unit (ICU). METHODS: We conducted a [...]
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