Abstract The State of the Science in Spirituality and Palliative Care was convened to
address the current landscape of research at the intersection of spirituality and palliative …

Spirituality has been identified as an important dimension of quality-of-life. The objective of
this study was to review the literature on quality-of-life and spirituality, their association, and …

Background Patients with advanced cancer have reduced quality of life, which tends to
worsen towards the end of life. We assessed the effect of early palliative care in patients with …

The Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Spiritual Well-Being (FACIT-Sp-12)
is a 12-item questionnaire that measures spiritual well-being in people with cancer and …

Objective: Cancer places many demands on the patient and threatens the person's sense of
meaning to life. It has been shown that cancer patients use their spirituality to cope with …

Objective: The purpose of this systematic review was to examine the literature for
associations between spiritual well-being and quality of life (QOL) among adults diagnosed …

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 …

Background Anxiety and depression are common in seriously ill patients and may be
associated with spiritual concerns. Little research has examined how concerns in different …

BACKGROUND Health‐related quality of life measures are common in oncology research,
trials, and practice. Spiritual well‐being has emerged as an important aspect of health …

Purpose The burden of serving as a caregiver is known to impair quality of life (QOL) and
mental health caregivers of cancer patients. However, few studies focused on the caregivers …