BACKGROUND According to World Health Organization (WHO), spirituality is an important domain of quality of life especially in terminal, life threatens chronic diseases. For many people spirituality and religion are not just very important dimensions of their existence, but also a source of support that contributes to wellbeing and coping with everyday difficulties of life. AIM Aim of the stud...

Many countries in Europe and the world have to cope with an aging population. Although health policy in many countries aims at increasing disability-free life expectancy, elderly patients represent a significant proportion of all patients admitted to different hospital departments. The aim of the research was to investigate the relationship between health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and the...

Spirituality is a multifaceted construct related to health outcomes that remains ill defined and difficult to measure. Spirituality in patients with advanced chronic illnesses, such as chronic heart failure, has received limited attention. We compared two widely used spirituality instruments, the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Spiritual Well-Being (FACIT-Sp) and the Ironson-Wo...

OBJECTIVE The 12-item Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Spiritual Well-being Scale (FACIT-Sp) is a popular measure of the religious/spiritual (R/S) components of quality of life (QoL) in patients with cancer. The original factor analyses of the FACIT-Sp supported two factors: Meaning/Peace and Faith. Because Meaning suggests a cognitive aspect of R/S and Peace an affective compon...

Objective To translate and perform the cultural adaptation of the tool Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy - Cervical Dysplasia (FACIT-CD) to the Portuguese language. Methods A descriptive cross-sectional study, with translation and cultural adaptation of the assessment tool performed according to international guidelines and the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy (...

BACKGROUND Fatigue is an important symptom to patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD). The aim of this study is to examine the prevalence and severity of fatigue among non-dialysis-dependent CKD and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients, to examine the association of fatigue with subjective and objective sleep quality, and to identify other modifiable factors associated with fatig...

We agree that fatigue is a common and important symptom of patients with active systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and that it is multidimensional, as has been elegantly described in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. In fact, randomised controlled trials in SLE have assessed fatigue, as early as the prasterone dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) studies (published in 2002–2004) that employed the (...

BACKGROUND Parkinson's Disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder of the central nervous system. Motor symptoms are the focus of pharmacotherapy, yet non-motor features of the disease (e.g. fatigue, mood disturbances, sleep disturbances and symptoms of anxiety) are both common and disabling for the patient. The pathophysiological mechanisms behind the non-motor symptoms i...

INTRODUCTION Fatigue is one of the most common symptoms in patients with advanced cancers. Despite its high prevalence, it is often unrecognized and undetected. This study assessed the feasibility and validity of a one-item fatigue scale (OIFS) in an outpatient oncology clinic. METHODS Over a 3-month trial period, all patients in a thoracic oncology clinic were screened for fatigue with a one...