Empty Wells: How well are we doing at spiritual well-being?

Hypertension control: how well are we doing?

BACKGROUND We compared blood pressure (BP) control in a recent cohort of hypertensive military veterans with BP control in a previous cohort and examined whether hypertension treatment practices, as defined by the frequency of antihypertensive medication dosage increases, have changed over time. METHODS We abstracted 1999 outpatient chart data including visit type, BP measurements, comorbidit...

Perinatal and infant postmortem examinations: how well are we doing?

AIM To investigate the quality of perinatal and infant necropsies and assess the relation between the quality and value of this investigation in different outcome groups. METHODS Cohort analysis of 540 deaths during 1993 of babies between 20 weeks' gestation and one year of age born to women usually resident in Wales. Cases were identified from the All Wales Perinatal Survey. Each case was as...

Management of congestive heart failure: how well are we doing?

Domains of spiritual well-being and development and validation of the Spiritual Well-Being Questionnaire

Fisher (1998) proposed a spiritual well-being model, comprising the domains of personal, communal, environmental and transcendental well-being, and a single global spiritual well-being dimension. This paper reports on four studies aimed at testing Fisher’s theoretical model, and establishing the validity and reliability of a new self-rating questionnaire (Spiritual Well-Being Questionnaire; SWB...

Can Spiritual Well-Being Predict Successful Aging?

Objectives: Successful aging is a positive, inner feeling and satisfaction with the past and present lives. Thus, the study was conducted to determine the predicting factors of the successful aging in a sample of Iranian elderly. Materials and methods: This cross-sectional and descriptive-analytic study was conducted on 291 elderly people in Qazvin in 2018 selected using two-stage cluster samp...