ReviewSouthern medical journal2016
A Comprehensive Approach to the Patient at End of Life: Assessment of Multidimensional Suffering.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Toward a socio-spiritual approach? A mixed-methods systematic review on the social and spiritual needs of patients in the palliative phase of their illness.Palliative medicine · 2021Pooled it
- Trends in Reported End-of-Life Concerns after the Legalization of Physician-Assisted Suicide.Southern medical journal · 2026Article
- Implementation of psycho-existential symptom distress screening among Italian healthcare providers.Palliative & supportive care · 2025Article
- Culture and context shapes spiritual distress: A phenomenological study of spiritual distress in hospitalised people with advanced COPD in India.BMC palliative care · 2025Article
- The Spiritual Aspect of Pain: An Integrative Review.Journal of religion and health · 2024Review
- Psychological Intervention on Reducing Stress of Nurses Caring for Terminally Ill Cancer Patients: A Quasi-Experimental Study.Alpha psychiatry · 2023Article
- Benefits of Spiritual and Religious Support in the Pain Management of Cancer Patients: A Literature Scoping Review.Journal of religion and health · 2023Article
- Transcending the self to transcend suffering.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- New Sulfamethoxazole Derivatives as Selective Carbonic Anhydrase IX and XII Inhibitors: Design, Synthesis, Cytotoxic Activity and Molecular Modeling.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Medicine in Between: Thomas Wolfe, Spirituality, and the Meaning of Life.Journal of religion and health · 2022Article
- A Call to Action to Address Disparities in Palliative Care Access: A Conceptual Framework for Individualizing Care Needs.Journal of palliative medicine · 2021Article
- Association of Religious and Spiritual Factors With Patient-Reported Outcomes of Anxiety, Depressive Symptoms, Fatigue, and Pain Interference Among Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer.JAMA network open · 2020Article
- Enhancing meaning in the face of advanced cancer and pain: Qualitative evaluation of a meaning-centered psychosocial pain management intervention.Palliative & supportive care · 2020Article
- A gap between the philosophy and the practice of palliative healthcare: sociological perspectives on the practice of nurses in specialised palliative homecare.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2020Article
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Abstract
Pain is a multidimensional, complex experience. There are many challenges in identifying and meeting the needs of patients experiencing pain. Evaluation of pain from a bio-psycho-social-spiritual framework is particularly germane for patients approaching the end of life. This review explores the relation between the psychospiritual dimensions of suffering and the experience of physical pain, and how to assess and treat pain in a multidimensional framework. A review of empirical data on the relation between pain and suffering as well as interdisciplinary evidence-based approaches to alleviate suffering are provided.
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