ArticleJournal of pain and symptom management2020
The Urgency of Spiritual Care: COVID-19 and the Critical Need for Whole-Person Palliation.
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41 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Impact of a Standardised Screening on the Assessment and Addressing of Spiritual Needs in Inpatient Palliative Care in Germany: A Mixed-Methods Study.Journal of religion and health · 2026Article
- Exploring Spiritual Concerns, Needs, and Resources in Outpatient Healthcare Facilities Serving Under-Resourced Black Patients: A Qualitative Study.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on palliative care services in the Cape Metro District of South Africa.Palliative care and social practice · 2026Article
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- Understanding and Addressing Morally Injurious Events of Healthcare Chaplains in Texas: Insights for Health and Well-Being.Journal of religion and health · 2025Article
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- Psychometric Properties of the Polish Version of the FACIT-Sp-12: Assessing Spiritual Well-Being Among Patients with Chronic Diseases.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2023Article
- Postvaccine Era COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Distress in Palliative Care Patients With Advanced Cancer.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2023Article
- The Perception of Spirituality and Its Assessment among Those with Different Health Statuses in Saudi Arabia.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Spiritual needs during COVID 19 pandemic in the perceptions of Spanish emergency critical care health professionals.Intensive & critical care nursing · 2023Article
- Spiritual Pain: A Symptom in Search of a Clinical Definition.Journal of religion and health · 2023Article
- Earbuds, smartphones, and music. Spiritual care and existential changes in COVID-19 times.Social theory & health : STH · 2023Article
- COVID-19, Suffering and Palliative Care: A Review.The American journal of hospice & palliative care · 2022Review
- Analysis of the Spiritual Orientations and the Hopelessness Levels of the Patients Diagnosed with COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Study.Florence Nightingale journal of nursing · 2022Article
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Abstract
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis has amplified the importance of palliative care to countless patients suffering with and dying from this disease, as well as to their families, communities, and the worldwide cadre of overburdened health care workers. Particularly urgent is the need for spiritual care specialists and generalists to address spiritual suffering given the degree of isolation, loneliness, and vulnerability caused by this pandemic. Although spiritual care has long been recognized as one of the domains of quality palliative care, it is often not fully integrated into practice. All disciplines are ultimately responsible for ensuring that spiritual care is prioritized to improve quality of life and the experience of patients and families facing spiritual emergencies amid the complex life-and-death scenarios inherent to coronavirus disease 2019. Although the pandemic has revealed serious fault lines in many health care domains, it has also underscored the need to recommit to spiritual care as an essential component of whole-person palliative care.
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