Spirituality and People With Poetentially Fatal Diagnoses

Fryback, Patricia B.; Reinert, Bonita

doi:10.1111/j.1744-6198.1999.tb00231.x

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“…As professionals, it is important to pick up on clues from patients, as informal spiritual assessment can take place anytime-for example, discussions around the search for meaning and making sense or fear or what the future holds may indicate spiritual distress [1]. Patients can then be helped to address this distress through presence, empathy and understanding from professionals [1,9,13] as well as through helping the patient to think about things that renew inner peace and comfort or through measures such as relaxation, meditation, music or, for some, through religion [1].…”

Section: Spiritual Carementioning

confidence: 99%

“…It has been suggested that general spiritual care can be provided by any member of the multidisciplinary team and includes presence, listening and compassion [1,13,25,42,43]. As professionals, it is important to pick up on clues from patients, as informal spiritual assessment can take place anytime-for example, discussions around the search for meaning and making sense or fear or what the future holds may indicate spiritual distress [1].…”

Section: Spiritual Carementioning

confidence: 99%

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Is there a correlation between spirituality and anxiety and depression in patients with advanced cancer?

McCoubrie

Davies

2005

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Section: Spiritual Carementioning

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Section: Spiritual Carementioning

confidence: 99%

Is there a correlation between spirituality and anxiety and depression in patients with advanced cancer?

McCoubrie

Davies

2005

Support Care Cancer

156

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“…In studies conducted in Western countries [2,3,5,6,8,9,10,11,12,15], spirituality has been described in terms of "the reliance on a powerful external being, beyond the self", of "being linked with God", as involving "a search for the aim or meaning of life and for meaning in why illness has struck", and as "personal values and a sense of being".…”

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Distress of inpatients with terminal cancer in Japanese palliative care units: from the viewpoint of spirituality

Kawa

Kayama

Maeyama

et al. 2003

Supportive Care in Cancer

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A qualitative study was conducted in an attempt to improve our understanding of the spiritual distress of terminally ill cancer patients in Japan. The subjects were inpatients at four approved palliative care units in Japan. The patients were interviewed and they expressed their own experiences in which spirituality was considered to be identifiable. Literal records of the interviews were analyzed using constant comparative analyses as proposed in relation to the grounded theory approach. The analysis included 11 inpatients and a variety of expressions of distress were obtained. After the conditions of the subjects were evaluated in order to search for common factors related to distress, consciousness of the gap between the patient's aspirations and the present situation were found to cause gap-induced distress. Distress was classified into three categories: distress due to the gap between the present situation and how the individual wanted to live, how the individual wished to die, and the individual's wish to maintain relations with others. The aspirations causing the gap were then interpreted from the viewpoint of spirituality as "anchors in life" for Japanese patients with terminal cancer. It was also revealed that in patients who possessed pictures of how they wished to die as their "anchors in life" and who were in a severe physical condition, distress increased and they became confused after their physical symptoms were relieved following admission to PCU.

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“…The mean QOL score of the test group was significantly lower than that of the control group for all domains except the spiritual domain. Fryback and Reinert (1999) suggested that spirituality is an essential component to feelings of health and well-being. Many of the subjects viewed spirituality as a bridge between hopelessness and meaningfulness in life.…”

Section: International Journal Of Research Studies In Psychology 65mentioning

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Spiritually and mental health among normal and chronic disease group

Sodhi¹,

Manju²

2012

IJRSP

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The current study investigates the impact of spirituality on mental health among normal healthy individuals and chronic disease group. This study is based on primary as well as secondary data that has been collected from the various sources. Sample size of the study is 100 respondents (50 normal healthy individuals, 50 chronic disease group individuals). Spirituality assessment Inventory (SAI) and General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) were used for the purpose of data collection. In statistical tools Pearson correlation and t-test has been applied. The major findings of the study shows that spirituality is significantly correlated with mental health and normal healthy individuals have higher spirituality and better mental health in comparison to chronic disease group.

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Spirituality and People With Poetentially Fatal Diagnoses

Cited by 79 publications

References 12 publications

Is there a correlation between spirituality and anxiety and depression in patients with advanced cancer?

Is there a correlation between spirituality and anxiety and depression in patients with advanced cancer?

Distress of inpatients with terminal cancer in Japanese palliative care units: from the viewpoint of spirituality

Spiritually and mental health among normal and chronic disease group

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