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...

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The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) has held a consistent testimony of abstinence and moderation regarding alcohol and other substances. This paper outlines the historical background, and describes modern Quaker understandings of moderation. It then outlines hitherto unpublished results regarding spirituality from the only study to date about Quaker behaviour and atttitudes regarding sub...

This article argues that secular humanists’ scholars like postmodernists are developing great interest in spirituality as though they beginning to have a positive approach towards religion and abandon their humanistic beliefs. Despite such spiritualism, not changed position against religion. In fact, the spiritual practices of Eastern religions transcendental meditation Buddhism Hinduism healin...

This article uses a sibling metaphor to outline the relationship between science and spirituality. This metaphor forms the backdrop for exploring several directions in spiritual care research. It argues that science and functional spirituality were born as siblings and need to dance now without either estrangement or incest, intent on measuring the material effects of excellent pastoral care.

RATIONALE The austere setting of the intensive care unit (ICU) can suppress expressions of spirituality. OBJECTIVES To describe how family members and clinicians experience and express spirituality during the dying process in a 21-bed medical-surgical ICU. METHODS Reflecting the care of 70 dying patients, we conducted 208 semistructured qualitative interviews with 76 family members and 150 ...

Religious thought and spirituality can be considered as a part of natural human capacities. There is an exponential rise in clinical research in the relationship between religion, spirituality and positive health outcomes. Most of these studies, however, have been primarily descriptive, rather than explanatory, focusing on identifying their underlying mechanisms. Almost no attempts have been ma...

Recent research on the impact of religiosity on sexuality has highlighted the role of the individual, and suggests that the effects of religious group and sexual attitudes and fantasy may be mediated through individual differences in spirituality. The present study investigated the role of religion in an ethnically diverse young adult sample (N = 1413, 69% women) using religious group as well a...

Chronic kidney disease is marked by a reduced life expectancy and a high symptom burden. For those who reach end-stage renal disease, the prognosis is poor, and this combined with the growing prevalence of the disease necessitates supportive and palliative care programmes that will address people's psychosocial, cultural and spiritual needs. While there is variation between countries, research ...

Romantic relationships are a specific type of connection relevant to our everyday lives. Given the monumental importance of romantic relationships, it is vital to investigate the factors that may influence them, as well as the factors that are affected by them. Two factors that may influence relationships are religiosity and spirituality. For the purpose of this study, we have defined religiosi...