cancer is deemed the century’s major health problem, and its increasing growth during the last decades has made experts concerned more than ever. of all types of cancer, breast cancer is regarded as the second most common disease among women. the aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of spiritual group therapy on quality of life and spiritual well-being among patients suffering f...

background: several studies are available on the lifestyle, psychological and mental health of the elderly adults. this study aimed to compare the spiritual well-being and happiness in the elderly who lived in sanitariums with those lived in the community. methods: a comparative study was conducted on 384 elderly adults. a census sampling was used in sanitariums and a convenience sampling was p...

BACKGROUND Spiritual well-being is an important dimension of quality of life (QOL) and is a core component of quality oncology and palliative care. In this analysis, we aimed to describe spiritual well-being outcomes in a National Cancer Institute (NCI)-supported Program Project that tested the effectiveness of an interdisciplinary palliative care intervention in lung cancer patients and their ...

BACKGROUND Sleep disorders are considered as one of the most important problems in hemodialysis patients, making their everyday life a serious hazard. Sleep quality of hemodialysis patients and consequences of sleep disorders on other aspects of health such as spiritual well-being are important issues. OBJECTIVES This study examined the relationship between spiritual well-being and quality of...

The current study examined the role of spiritual well-being at Time 1 (T1) in satisfaction with singlehood six months later a sample 335 Polish single adults aged 19–51 (M = 32.23, SD 6.44). analyses provided evidence suppression effect 2 (T2) on link between T1 and T2. Lower changes over were related to higher subsequent singlehood. findings imply that greater may be an important, although wea...

The purpose of this exploratory study was to evaluate the relationship between emotional eating and spiritual well-being. It was found that among college women lower levels of spiritual well-being correlated with higher levels of emotional eating (r=-.22, p=.0015). In other studies emotional eating has been found to contribute to higher caloric intake, binge eating, and bulimic eating attitudes...

Patients with lung cancer report more disease burden and lower spiritual well-being (SWB) compared with other cancer patients. Understanding variables that lessen disease burden and improve SWB is essential. The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between motivational level for physical activity and SWB in patients with lung cancer. Linear regression showed increased SWB as stage ...

Dimensions of religious/spiritual well being (RSWB; such as hope, forgiveness, or general religiosity) have been examined comprehensively, and its positive relation to subjective well-being has been confirmed. However, there also might be facets of RSWB linked to mental illness (e.g. delusional ideas). The aim of the present study was to investigate the association between different dimensions ...