OBJECTIVES: For some people, diagnosis with a serious illness or other adverse life events can precipitate a period of religious struggle. While evidence of the harmful effects [...]
Background: The large body of empirical research suggesting that patients’ spiritual and existential experiences influence the disease process has raised the need for health care professionals to [...]
BACKGROUND: This study sought to inductively derive core themes of religion and/or spirituality (R/S) active in patients’ experiences of advanced cancer to inform the development of [...]
OBJECTIVE: Health care professionals and policy makers acknowledge that spiritual needs are important for many patients with life-limiting illnesses. We asked such patients to describe [...]
Spiritual AIM (Spiritual Assessment & Intervention Model) is a “brief, chaplain-delivered spiritual care intervention” [MS p. 8] that “was developed through 25 years of [...]
BACKGROUND: As professional spiritual care (chaplaincy) is introduced to new cultures worldwide, it bears examining which elements of screening and care are universal and, for those elements [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]