ArticleCanadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien2008
Predictors of spirituality at the end of life.
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- Assessment of the wish to hasten death in patients with advanced disease: A systematic review of measurement instruments.Palliative medicine · 2017Pooled it
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- The Effect of Spirituality in Quality of Life of Hemodialysis Patients.Journal of religion and health · 2022Article
- Spiritual Well-Being and Associated Factors in End-Stage Renal Disease.TheScientificWorldJournal · 2021Article
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- Signs of Spiritual Distress and its Implications for Practice in Indian Palliative Care.Indian journal of palliative careArticle
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Abstract
objectiveTo assess the relationship between spirituality and hopelessness, desire for hastened death, and clinical and disease-related characteristics among patients with advanced cancer, and to investigate predictors of spirituality. Spiritual well-being is thought to have a beneficial effect on patients' response to illness.
designPatients were asked to complete 4 questionnaires: the Greek version of the Spiritual Involvement and Beliefs Scale, the Greek version of the Schedule of Attitudes toward Hastened Death, the Beck Hopelessness Scale, and a questionnaire on demographics.
settingA palliative care unit in Athens, Greece.
participantsA total of 91 patients with advanced cancer.
main outcome measuresAssociations between scores on the Spiritual Involvement and Beliefs scale and scores on the Schedule of Attitudes toward Hastened Death scale and the Beck Hopelessness scale, and demographic characteristics.
resultsStatistically significant associations were found between spirituality and sex of patients (P = .001) and spirituality and stronger hopelessness (r = 0.252, P = .016). In multivariate analyses, stronger hopelessness, male sex, younger age, and receiving chemotherapy were found to be the strongest predictors of being spiritual.
conclusionDemographic and clinical characteristics and stronger hopelessness appeared to have statistically significant relationships with spirituality. Interventions to improve patients' spiritual well-being should take these relationships into account.
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