Personal prayer in patients dealing with chronic illness: a review of the research literature

K Jors, A Büssing, NC Hvidt… - … and Alternative Medicine, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Background. Prayer is commonly used among patients for health purposes. Therefore, this
review focused on three main questions:(1) why do people turn to prayer in times of …

Spiritual coping, psychosocial adjustment, and physical health in youth with chronic illness: a meta-analytic review

N Reynolds, S Mrug, K Wolfe, D Schwebel… - Health psychology …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: The current systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to assess the strength of
the relationships between religious/spiritual coping strategies and psychosocial adjustment …

Spiritual coping and adjustment in adolescents with chronic illness: A 2-year prospective study

N Reynolds, S Mrug, M Hensler, K Guion… - Journal of pediatric …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Objective Examine longitudinal relationships between spiritual coping and psychological
adjustment among adolescents with chronic illness. Methods Adolescents (N= 128; M= 14.7 …

Iranian and English women's use of religion and spirituality as resources for coping with infertility

R Latifnejad Roudsari, HT Allan, PA Smith - Human Fertility, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The study reported in this paper explores how infertile women cope with infertility using their
religious and spiritual beliefs. In total, 30 infertile women affiliated to different denominations …

The role of spirituality and religiosity in persons living with sickle cell disease: a review of the literature

D Clayton-Jones, K Haglund - Journal of Holistic Nursing, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Purpose: Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a serious debilitating chronic illness, affecting
approximately 90,000 Americans and millions globally. Spirituality and religiosity (S/R) may …

Spirituality and religiosity in adolescents living with sickle cell disease

D Clayton-Jones, K Haglund… - Western Journal of …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
This study purports to address paucity in the literature regarding how adolescents with sickle
cell disease (SCD) describe and experience spirituality and religiosity (S/R). This was a …

From qualitative work to intervention development in pediatric oncology palliative care research

TF Akard, MJ Gilmer, DL Friedman… - Journal of Pediatric …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Qualitative methods can be particularly useful approaches to use with individuals who are
experiencing a rare disease and thus who comprise a small sample (such as children with …

Spiritual well-being and related factors in Children with Cancer

E Juškauskienė, O Riklikienė… - Journal of pediatric …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Introduction: There are specific gaps that call for empirical research in the experiences of
spiritual well-being among children 12 years old and younger with cancer. Understanding …

Spirituality and children's coping with representation of death during the COVID-19 pandemic: Qualitative research with parents

S Pompele, V Ghetta, S Veronese, MD Bucuță… - Pastoral psychology, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the related lockdown
measures have had intense negative impacts on the psychological well-being of both adults …

The relationship between spirituality and the developing brain: A framework for pediatric oncology

RS Werk, DM Steinhorn, A Newberg - Journal of religion and health, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Development, whether motor, language, social, or spiritual, is the functional
expression of complex brain processes throughout one's life span, the foundations of which …