Research in the field of “Spirituality and Health” has been growing, with spirituality/
religiousness (S/R) being consistently related to both physical and mental health. The …

Aims and objectives. The aim of this article was to analyse the scholarly discourse on the
ethical issues of incorporating spirituality and religion into clinical practice. Background …

Aim To discuss the definition of spirituality and its limitations for nursing research. It
proposes a definition that will capture more accurately the role of spirituality in health …

Background: Spirituality has always been present in the history of nursing and continues to
be a topic of nursing interest. Spirituality has ancient roots. The term 'spirituality'is interpreted …

Background A majority of people in Western Europe and the USA die in hospitals. Spiritual
and existential care is seen to be an integral component of holistic, compassionate and …

Spiritual health has attracted a lot of attention in health-related and nursing sciences and
numerous researches. Yet, this concept has remained complex and ambiguous, and there is …

Claims about religion's beneficial effects on physical and psychological health have
received substantial attention in popular media, but empirical support for these claims is …

Background Being with dying people is an integral part of nursing, yet many nurses feel
unprepared to accompany people through the process of dying, reporting a lack of skills in …

Background Sweden has a policy of supporting older people to live a normal life at home for
as long as possible. Therefore, it is often the oldest, most frail people who move into nursing …

OBJECTIVE: this article describes the assessment of the spiritual wellbeing of elderly
patients with cancer submitted to chemotherapy and possible predictive factors of the …