ba ck g r oun d & aim: spiritual care is an integral part of a holistic nursing care. providing spiritual care has a positive impact on patients’ health outcomes. although nurses understand the importance of incorporating  patient’s  spiritual  beliefs  into the care practice,  understanding  their  spirituality before addressing the spirituality of patients is also important. therefore, the ai...

Disease is a matter with which each person may face in his life. If caregivers want to provide real and complete health care services, comprehensive attention to the spiritual needs of a patient is indispensibe. Since many people obtain spirituality through religion, appropriate religious care can promote spiritual health of patients. This research aimed at examining religious care program and ...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To measure the prevalence of spiritual needs and identify factors associated with spiritual needs among patients with cancer and family caregivers. DESIGN Descriptive, cross-sectional, quantitative. SETTING Inpatients and outpatients at a university medical center in the southwestern United States. SAMPLE 156 patients with cancer and 68 family caregivers who were primar...

A. (2012). Integrating spiritual care within palliative care: An overview of nine demonstration projects.

Objective: To understand spirituality from the point of view of nurses who care for patients under palliative care. Methods: This is a qualitative field study, conducted with ten nurses working at a hospital in João Pessoa (PB). The empirical material was collected through semi-structured interviews and analyzed using the content analysis technique. Results: The results showed that nurses consi...

This study explored the views of professional nurses in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa regarding the role of spirituality and spiritual care in nursing practice and investigated whether professional nurses utilize spiritually based care in nursing practice. A cross-sectional descriptive design using multistage random sampling was utilized. Five hundred and fifty questionnaires were distributed to ...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To examine the relationships between spiritual, religious, and sociodemographic factors and post-traumatic growth, quality of life, and spiritual well-being in outpatients undergoing bone marrow and/or stem cell transplantation (BMSCT).
. DESIGN Cross-sectional, descriptive, exploratory.
. SETTING Outpatient bone marrow transplantation clinic at the Tom Baker Cancer Centr...

CONTEXT The National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care includes spiritual care as one of the eight clinical practice domains. There are very few standardized spirituality history tools. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this pilot study was to test the feasibility for the Faith, Importance and Influence, Community, and Address (FICA) Spiritual History Tool in clinical settings. Correlates...

INTRODUCTION Stroke is a chronic condition that necessitates multidimensional and overwhelming care. The caregivers of stroke patients are faced with various stressors that can threaten different aspects of their health, especially their mental health. Spiritual attitude and being spiritually oriented contribute significantly to mental health and can be used as a strategy for adapting to the st...

In 13 years of publishing Palliative and Supportive Care, we have tried to be true to our mission of focusing the scientific and editorial content of the journal on psychiatric, psychosocial, existential and spiritual domains of palliative, and supportive care. I believe we’ve been true to this mission, and somewhat successful in providing an academic publishing home for clinicians and research...