Specialist palliative care (PC) often embraces a “less is more” philosophy that runs counter to the revenue-centric nature of most health care financing in the U.S. A special business [...]
This statement provides guidance to advocacy groups, professional health care associations, health care administrators, clinical teams, researchers, government and other funders, faith [...]
Fifteen-minute consultation: Not the whole story-considering children’s spirituality and advance care planning.
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In a society of diverse views, faiths and beliefs, what can paediatric palliative care contribute to our understanding of children’s spirituality? By failing to recognise and respond to [...]
BACKGROUND:: Spiritual care is a fundamental component of holistic end-of-life (EoL) care. AIM:: To explore what is known about the spiritual concerns of people experiencing homelessness towards [...]
Taking Refuge in Spirituality, a Main Strategy of Parents of Children with Cancer: a Qualitative Study
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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 [...]
Effects of Religious versus Standard Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy on Optimism in Persons with Major Depression and Chronic Medical Illness
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Background: We compared the effectiveness of religiously integrated cognitive behavioral therapy (RCBT) versus standard CBT (SCBT) on increasing optimism in persons with major depressive disorder [...]
Telomere length (TL) is an indicator of cellular aging associated with longevity and psychosocial stress. We examine here the relationship between religious involvement and TL in 251 stressed [...]
The ‘safe death’: An ethnographic study exploring the perspectives of rural palliative care patients and family caregivers
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Background: In rural settings, relationships between place and self are often stronger than for urban residents, so one may expect that rural people would view dying at home as a major feature of [...]
PURPOSE: A previous survey of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC) members found low frequency of spiritual care provision. We hypothesized that physicians with [...]
Transforming Chaplaincy Fellow Paul Galchutt will present at a gathering of the program Interprofessional Spiritual Care Education Curriculum, the first curriculum at the global level that offers [...]