Context Spirituality has been demonstrated to play an important role in healthcare, yet many
staff feel ill-equipped to deliver spiritual care. Spiritual care training programs have been …

Objectives With the increased emphasis on personalised, patient-centred care, there is now
greater acceptance and expectation for the physician to address issues related to spirituality …

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 …

Aims and objectives To develop and psychometrically test a self‐assessment tool that
measures undergraduate nursing and midwifery students' perceptions of spiritual care …

Given that spiritual formation of students is a key pursuit of theological training and in light of
the evolving landscape of Christian spiritual formation, designing an effective educational …

Objective In a recent study, we explored what kind of existential concerns patients with
advanced cancer disclose during a routine hospital consultation and how they communicate …

Introduction Talking about existential issues with patients is often experienced as
challenging for healthcare professionals. This paper describes our first steps towards …

Objective Advanced cancer poses a threat to all aspects of being, potentially causing
existential suffering. We explore what kind of existential concerns patients with advanced …

Objectives There are multitudes of existential feelings and considerations around childbirth,
with both positive and negative sources of existential meaning; often they are mixed up, but …

Research documents that many chronic non-malignant pain patients experience existential,
spiritual and religious needs; however, research knowledge is missing on if and how …