Background: It is important to identify, from the patients' perspectives, the different factors
that contribute toward psycho-social-spiritual healing. Methods: This was a qualitative study …

Background: Modern palliative care defines four key domains fundamental to a patients'
holistic care: physical, emotional, social, and spiritual. Regardless of the symptom being …

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 …

Context Spiritual care refers to practices and rituals addressing spiritual/religious concerns.
It supports coping with loss and finding hope, meaning, and peace. Although integral to …

CONTEXT: Spirituality is a distinctive subject within palliative care practice and literature, but
research to date is relatively undeveloped in this field and studies often throw more light on …

Spirituality and spiritual care are gaining increasing attention but their potential contribution
to palliative care remains unclear. The aim of this study was to synthesize qualitative …

Since the beginning of hospice and then the development of palliative care, spirituality has
been recognized as an essential element of palliative care. Cecily Saunders 1, the founder …

There is a paucity of research relating to how palliative caregivers conceptualize, identify,
and provide for spiritual and existential domains of care. Focus groups comprising …

Background: Spirituality and spiritual care are well recognized as important facets of patient
care, particularly in the palliative care population. Challenges remain, however, in the …

This journal, Palliative & Supportive Care, has described itself as the first international
palliative care journal that focuses on the psychiatric, psychosocial, spiritual, existential …