Spiritual care is an important component of high-quality health care, especially for critically ill
patients and their families. Despite evidence of benefits from spiritual care, physicians and …

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

The experiences of patients with cancer—from diagnosis through treatment, survivorship,
and death—encompass many aspects of their lives—physical, social, emotional, and …

Objective Spiritual well-being was found to have some protective effect against end-of life
despair in cancer patients. We aimed at assessing the impact of spirituality on the quality of …

Context Assessment and response to patients' spiritual concerns are crucial components of
high-quality supportive care. Better measures of spiritual needs across the cultural spectrum …

Experiencing life‐threatening illness could impact on an individual's spirituality or religious
beliefs. In this paper, we report on a study which explored cultural elements that influence …

Spiritual sickness troubles American medicine. Through a death-denying culture, medicine
has gained enormous power-an influence it maintains by distancing itself from religion …

Purpose: Approaching death seems to be associated with physiological/spiritual changes.
Trajectories including the physical–psychological–social–spiritual dimension have indicated …

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 …

Background The main aim of the study was to explore the attitudes and health perceptions of
faith healing users in Kumasi Metropolis, Ghana. This has become necessary because faith …