Spirituality and Quality of Life in Black Patients With Cancer Pain

Bai, Jinbing; Brubaker, Andrea; Meghani, Salimah H.; Bruner, Deborah Watkins; Yeager, Katherine A.

doi:10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2018.05.020

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“…Spirituality may help individuals to accept the cancer diagnosis (Park & Carney, 2018); find meaning and hope (Astrow et al, 2016); provide comfort, courage, satisfaction, and interconnectedness; and attain inner peace and harmony (Hatamipour et al, 2015). Spirituality is also known to contribute significantly to the overall wellbeing of African Americans (Bai et al, 2018).…”

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Quality of life and associated factors among adults living with cancer and their family caregivers

Gabriel

Creedy

Coyne

2021

Nursing & Health Sciences

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This study examined the association of needs, health literacy, and quality of life among adult Nigerians with cancer and family caregivers. A descriptive study was conducted involving 240 adults with cancer and family caregivers attending a tertiary hospital. More than two‐thirds of participants reported moderate or high needs. Information (90.8%) and spiritual support (85%) were the domains of highest need among adults with cancer. Family/social support (85%) and spiritual support (81.7%) ranked the highest among family caregivers. A negative correlation was found between needs and quality of life. Stepwise regression analysis showed that needs and literacy explained 36% of the variance in adults with cancer's quality of life and 28% of the variance in family caregivers’ quality of life. Spiritual need accounted l for 9.5% and 9.1% of variation for adults with cancer and family caregivers, respectively. Findings suggest that interventions with a focus on social/family and spiritual needs may improve wellbeing of adults with cancer and caregivers in Nigeria. This research are generalizable to other low‐income countries where family values and spirituality are often a strong feature of daily life.

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Quality of life and associated factors among adults living with cancer and their family caregivers

Gabriel

Creedy

Coyne

2021

Nursing & Health Sciences

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“…Another biological plausibility is that SWB can affect survival time based on its link with physical symptoms [2,3]. Spirituality could be protective against physical symptoms [29], while the intensity of physical symptoms is known to be associated with survival time of patients having advanced cancer [30,31]. Thus, better SWB may prolong survival time.…”

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Is spiritual well-being related to survival time of inpatients with advanced cancer? An East Asian cohort study

Hiratsuka

Suh

Won

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Purpose: It has been suggested that psychosocial factors are related to survival time in patients with cancer. However, there is no cross-cultural study examining the relationship between spiritual well-being (SWB) and survival time among countries. This study investigated the relationship between SWB and survival time among three East Asian countries. Methods: This international multicenter cohort study is a secondary analysis involving newly admitted inpatients with advanced cancer in palliative care units in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. SWB was measured at admission. We performed multivariate analysis using the Cox proportional hazards model to identify independent prognostic factors. Results: A total of 2638 patients treated at 37 palliative care units from January 2017 to September 2018 were analyzed. The median survival time was 18.0 days (95% confidence interval [CI] 16.5 to 19.5) in Japan, 23.0 days (95% CI 19.9 to 26.1) in Korea and 15.0 days (95% CI 13.0 to 17.0) in Taiwan. Four variables were significant in Japan, Korea and Taiwan. SWB was a significant factor correlated with survival in Taiwan (hazard ratio [HR] 1.27; 95% CI 1.01 to 1.59; p = 0.04), while it was insignificant in Japan (HR 1.10; 95% CI 1.00 to 1.22; p = 0.06), and Korea (HR 1.02; 95% CI 0.77 to 1.35; p = 0.89). Conclusion: SWB of patients with advanced cancer was related to survival time in Taiwan but not in Japan or Korea. The findings suggest that spiritual care may contribute to prolonged survival in patients with far advanced cancer.

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“…Spirituality makes changes in cognitive skills, such as the use of abstract thinking, the ability to understand metaphors. It can also mean the ability to observe a stressful situation and take the necessary action to deal with it [3]. The results of the research with elderly respondents who had gone through many life experiences as found in Celis' and [4], [6], [10], and [1] showed that one's spirituality levels had a significant positive relationship with his/her quality of life with moderate to strong categories.…”

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The Relationship between Spirituality, Quality of Life, and Resilience

Dewi¹,

Hamzah²

2019

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Community Development (ICCD 2019)

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A high spirituality level will lead to peace of mind and calmness in facing a life full of challenges. Thus, spirituality level determined how well someone's quality of life and resilience are. This library research aims to seek the relationship between spirituality, quality of life, and resilience. We reviewed journals that provide evidence that spirituality has a significant relationship with quality of life and resilience. Twenty quantitative research journals with correlational analysis in their hypotheses testing and published in 2013 to 2018 were reviewed. The result showed that all of the studies have proven that spirituality has a significant positive relationship with quality of life, as well as resilience in various sexes, ages, occupations, and illnesses. The higher a person's spiritual level, the better his quality of life and his resilience in facing life's problems.

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Spirituality and Quality of Life in Black Patients With Cancer Pain

Cited by 59 publications

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Quality of life and associated factors among adults living with cancer and their family caregivers

Quality of life and associated factors among adults living with cancer and their family caregivers

Is spiritual well-being related to survival time of inpatients with advanced cancer? An East Asian cohort study

The Relationship between Spirituality, Quality of Life, and Resilience

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