Spiritual support of cancer patients and the role of the doctor

Best, Megan; Butow, Phyllis; Olver, Ian

doi:10.1007/s00520-013-2091-1

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“…(8,9,30,32) This allowed the doctor to provide improved care. (52,58,64) Thus patients distinguished between a doctor asking about spirituality with a view to being aware of this dimension of the patient, versus collecting information in order to deal with spiritual problems within the consultation. In fact, many patients expressed strong objections to doctors acting as spiritual advisors or proselytizing.…”

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“…(63) Barriers to patients talking about R/S with their doctors included thinking it is not part of the physician's job, that doctors did not have the time or were not interested, or that they did not know what to say either because they had not decided or were not ready. (26,32,52,55,66) Hospital patients in one study felt that the vulnerability they experienced by being in their pyjamas discouraged spiritual discussions in a way which would not have been present A c c e p t e d M a n u s c r i p t 18 doctor they knew, rather than a stranger (as found in Theme 1), although it was also suggested that some of these so-called barriers may be excuses for patients who were unwilling to initiate discussion themselves, putting the blame on the doctor. (55) Theme 2 would suggest that it may not be so much a matter of being unwilling so much as disempowered.…”

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Do patients want doctors to talk about spirituality? A systematic literature review

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Olver

2015

Patient Education and Counseling

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Do patients want doctors to talk about spirituality? A systematic literature review

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Olver

2015

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“…Many models exist for each stage. It is recommended that the purpose of the questioning be considered carefully before a tool is chosen [64,65].…”

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An EAPC white paper on multi-disciplinary education for spiritual care in palliative care

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Background: The EAPC White Paper addresses the issue of spiritual care education for all palliative care professionals. It is to guide health care professionals involved in teaching or training of palliative care and spiritual care; stakeholders, leaders and decision makers responsible for training and education; as well as national and local curricula development groups. Methods: Early in 2018, preliminary draft paper was written by members of the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) spiritual care reference group inviting comment on the four core elements of spiritual care education as outlined by Gamondi et al. (2013) in their paper on palliative care core competencies. The preliminary draft paper was circulated to experts from the EAPC spiritual care reference group for feedback. At the second stage feedback was incorporated into a second draft paper and experts and representatives of national palliative care organizations were invited to provide feedback and suggest revisions. The final version incorporated the subsequent criticism and as a result, the Gamondi framework was explored and critically revised leading to updated suggestions for spiritual care education in palliative care. Results: The EAPC white paper points out the importance of spiritual care as an integral part of palliative care and suggests incorporating it accordingly into educational activities and training models in palliative care. The revised spiritual care education competencies for all palliative care providers are accompanied by the best practice models and research evidence, at the same time being sensitive towards different development stages of the palliative care services across the European region. Conclusions: Better education can help the healthcare practitioner to avoid being distracted by their own fears, prejudices, and restraints and attend to the patient and his/her family. This EAPC white paper encourages and facilitates high quality, multidisciplinary , academically and financially accessible spiritual care education to all palliative care staff.

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“…Beliefs and values are recognised as fundamental elements of current understandings of a person's spirituality and therefore important to any assessment of spiritual needs (Puchalski et al 2014). While current data reveals Australia to be an increasingly secular society (Australian Bureau of Statistics 2016), research demonstrates that patients want their spiritual needs considered as part of their overall health care (Best et al 2014). The provision of spiritual care in response to spiritual needs has increasingly appeared in state and government reports in Australia, and while spiritual care is being provided in Australian hospitals, there has been little attention given nationally to how it is provided, who is providing it and how the contribution of this essential element of care is measured.…”

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Towards National Consensus: Spiritual Care in the Australian Healthcare Context

Holmes

2018

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The Enhancing Quality and Safety: Spiritual Care in Health National Consensus Conference brought together key stakeholders from across Australia to agree a national framework to ensure quality and safety in spiritual care services through a nationally consistent approach to the provision of spiritual care in Australian hospitals. A working group planned the conference that was held over two days. Invitations were distributed to a wide range of stakeholders to ensure a diversity of voices contributed to the outcomes. The conference proceedings included presentations, small group work and facilitated discussion to enable progress on the conference objective. A conference report of the key outcomes was produced and widely distributed. The national consensus conference outcomes described five principles for the design and delivery of spiritual care services for the Australian context. Ten policy statements described key deliverables that could be used to benchmark and measure a nationally consistent approach to spiritual care.

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Spiritual support of cancer patients and the role of the doctor

Abstract: Spirituality is a universal phenomenon. Patients in a secular society want their doctor to take an interest in their spiritual support and facilitate access to it during illness.

Cited by 53 publications

References 40 publications

Do patients want doctors to talk about spirituality? A systematic literature review

Do patients want doctors to talk about spirituality? A systematic literature review

An EAPC white paper on multi-disciplinary education for spiritual care in palliative care

Towards National Consensus: Spiritual Care in the Australian Healthcare Context

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