Spirituality and health is a growing field of healthcare. It grew out of courses in spirituality
and health developed for medical students in the United States. Research in this area over …

Introduction: It is becoming increasingly important to address the spiritual dimension in the
integral care of the people in order to adequately assist them in the processes of their illness …

Nurses and health care professionals should have an active role in meeting the spiritual
needs of patients in collaboration with the family and the chaplain. Literature criticizes the …

Aims and objectives To map existing evidence about educational interventions or strategies
in nursing and allied healthcare concerning students' and staffs' spiritual care provision …

The spiritual dimension has been demonstrated by research to be an important and
fundamental aspect of human functioning, one that positively affects healing and health and …

ObjectiveA major barrier to the adoption of an approach that integrates spirituality into
palliative care is the lack of preparation/education of healthcare professionals on the topic …

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

Background and Objectives: Among a growing number of articles about spirituality and
medicine, there are no open-ended empirical inquiries about family physicians' …

Abstract Two conferences, Creating More Compassionate Systems of Care (November
2012) and On Improving the Spiritual Dimension of Whole Person Care: The …

In this article, we aimed to set out current problems that hinder a fully fledged integration of
spiritual and medical care, which address these obstacles. We discuss the following five …