OBJECTIVE Examine longitudinal relationships between spiritual coping and psychological adjustment among adolescents with chronic illness. METHODS Adolescents (N = 128; M = 14.7 years) with cystic fibrosis or diabetes completed measures of spiritual coping and adjustment at 2 time points ∼2 years apart; parents also reported on adolescent adjustment. Prospective relationships between spiritua...

BACKGROUND Although spirituality is usually considered a positive resource for coping with illness, spiritual distress may have a negative influence on health outcomes. Tools are needed to identify spiritual distress in clinical practice and subsequently address identified needs. This study describes the first steps in the development of a clinically acceptable instrument to assess spiritual di...

CONTEXT The objective of the present review was to collect published spiritual needs questionnaires and to present a clear image of the research condition of this domain. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION First, an electronic search was conducted with no limits on time span (until June 2015) or language in the following databases: PubMed, Scopus, Ovid, ProQuest and Google Scholar. All derivations of the k...

As concerns on health care increases, many people look for various kinds of exercises for maintaining their own healthy conditions. Especially recent days, many people want to live a well-being life and prevent any harmful factors of unhealthy conditions from their life. Among numerous types of sports or physical activities for health care, yoga is one of the most popular sports in the world. T...

From drawing to sculpture, poetry to journaling, and dance to music and song, the arts can have a major impact on patients' spiritual well-being and health. The arts empower patients to fulfill the basic human drive to create and give patients a sense of possibility. Through creative expression, patients regain a feeling of wholeness, individually and as part of the larger world. Although spiri...

Purpose: To explore the level of and the experiences with spiritual care by nurses in curative cancer care. Methods: In this mixed-method study, nurses were recruited in eight hospitals in The Netherlands. Questionnaire scores were quantitatively analyzed (n=57), and concerned a spirituality and a competence scale, and five questions about spiritual care. Because of data saturation, qualitativ...

BUMC PROCEEDINGS 2001;14:352–357 The technological advances of the past century tended to change the focus of medicine from a caring, serviceoriented model to a technological, cure-oriented model. Technology has led to phenomenal advances in medicine and has given us the ability to prolong life. However, in the past few decades physicians have attempted to balance their care by reclaiming medic...

this study is aimed at investigating the impact of training moral, spiritual and cultural intelligence on the dimensions of women’s familial functioning. the research method is quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest design and a control group. the population consisted of all the women attending counseling centers in islamabad gharb, iran in the year 2014. using the availability sampling tec...