Abstract:Background: The palliative care provided to cancer patients should also contemplate the psychological and spiritual dimensions of care. Aims: This study aimed to compare religiosity and spiritual/religious coping (SRC) of cancer patients in palliative care with a group of healthy volunteers and determine whether sociodemographic characteristics affected this association. Methods: This was a case-control study conducted with 86 patients living with cancer from an outpatient palliative care clinic of the São Pau… Show more
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