Background There is widespread agreement about the importance of spiritual training
programs (STPs) for healthcare professionals caring for cancer patients, and that reflecting …

Objectives: Patients value health-care professionals' attention to their spiritual needs.
However, this is undervalued in health-care professionals' education. Additional training is …

Abstract Background The EAPC White Paper addresses the issue of spiritual care education
for all palliative care professionals. It is to guide health care professionals involved in …

Purpose Integrating spirituality into the patient care within a healthcare team, increases the
ability to provide “holistic care” for cancer patients. The spiritual care experiences of different …

Objective: Physicians and nurses do not assess spirituality routinely, even though spiritual
care is a vital part of palliative care for patients with an advanced serious illness. The aim of …

Objective: Although spirituality as it relates to patients is gaining increasing attention, less is
known about how health care professionals (HCP) experience spirituality personally or …

Background Patients approaching the end of their life do not experience their existential and
spiritual needs being sufficiently met by the healthcare professionals responsible for their …

Further improvement of spiritual care in palliative care is warranted. Particularly reducing
barriers and enhancing spiritual care competencies among the healthcare professionals is …

Purpose This paper aimed to discover the requirements of hospital-based spiritual care for
cancer patients. Methods This study was a descriptive qualitative-exploratory research, in …

Background: Spiritual care is reported to be important to palliative patients. There is an
increasing need for education in spiritual care. Aim: To measure the effects of a specific …