Introduction Spirituality is a multidimensional aspect of human experience. In the context of
palliative care, it is an individual resource that can be used to cope with illness and to assign …

Objective. The recent literature addresses the need to improve care for dying patients. The
purpose of this study was to identify barriers to the psychosocial spiritual care of these …

Background: One's spirituality or religious beliefs and practices may have a profound impact
on how the individual copes with the suffering that so often accompanies advanced disease …

Palliative care can easily focus on physical and psychosocial problems but, for various
reasons, ignore the spiritual needs of patients. There is confusion between the words …

Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the lived experience of spirituality and
spiritual engagement as perceived by palliative care clients and their caregivers. Design: A …

Spiritual care is, perhaps, the most mysterious and most often misunderstood part of
palliative care. There is much discussion about what constitutes good spiritual care, and to …

Spirituality is the most unknown aspect of palliative care despite being the need that is most
altered in the last moments of life. Objective. To identify on the one hand the spiritual needs …

Background S piritual care is an essential domain of quality palliative care as determined by
the National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care (NCP, 2009) 1 and the National …

Context Spiritual, existential, and psychological issues represent central components of
quality of life (QOL) in palliative care. A better understanding of the dynamic nature …

Members of the Quality of Life Group (QLG) of the European Organisation for Research and
Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) are developing a stand-alone functional measure of spiritual …