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 …

Research related to spirituality and health has developed from relative obscurity to a thriving
field of study over the last 20 years both within palliative care and within health care in …

Despite an empirical evidence for spiritual care as part of palliative care, R/S remains
insufficiently addressed by the medical system. Further research is required in order to more …

Background: Spiritual distress is prevalent in advanced disease, but often neglected,
resulting in unnecessary suffering. Evidence to inform spiritual care practices in palliative …

Many studies on spiritual care in palliative care are performed in the US, leaving other
continents unexplored. The objective of this systematic review is to map the recent studies …

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 …

Although spiritual caregiving is a key domain of palliative care, it lacks a clear definition,
which impedes both caregiving and research in this domain. The aim of this study was to …

Spirituality is an essential component of the care of patients with serious illness and those
that are dying. Dame Cicely Saunders developed the hospice movement based on the …

In recent years, medical and allied health publications have begun to address various topics
on spirituality. Scholars have posited numerous definitions of spirituality and wrestled with …

The definition of spirituality is the subject of endless debates in the empirical literature. This
content analysis sought to:(1) exhaustively review the empirical literature on end-of-life …