ReviewBMJ supportive & palliative care2024
How can existential or spiritual strengths be fostered in palliative care? An interpretative synthesis of recent literature.
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- The impact of spiritual care on the psychological health and quality of life of adults with heart failure: a systematic review of randomized trials.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Pooled it
- The spiritual dimension of parenting a child with a life-limiting or life-threatening condition: A mixed-methods systematic review.Palliative medicine · 2023Pooled it
- Person-Centered Care at the End of Life: Challenging Ableism in Conversations About What Matters Most.Journal of general internal medicine · 2026Review
- The Palliation of Pediatric Kidney Transplantation.Pediatric transplantation · 2026Review
- Spiritual care for Latinx youth with type 1 diabetes (T1D) and their caregivers: qualitative analysis of focus groups.Diabetology & metabolic syndrome · 2026Article
- Culture and context shapes spiritual distress: A phenomenological study of spiritual distress in hospitalised people with advanced COPD in India.BMC palliative care · 2025Article
- Hope and Acceptance at the End of Life: Impact of Spirituality on Patients in Palliative Care.Cureus · 2025Article
- "To Have the Encounter with Our Own Finiteness in that Existential Way": Descriptions of Existential Experience in Patients with Cancer and Major Depression Participating in Psilocybin-Assisted Group Therapy.Psychedelic medicine (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2025Article
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A narrative synthesis of its hallmarks for palliative care clinicians.European journal of internal medicine · 2025Review
- Exploring efficacy of spiritual-based interventions (SBIs) in addressing depressive symptoms among cardiac patients in MENA region: a scoping review.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Attending to the Existential Experience.Journal of palliative medicine · 2024Article
- Spiritual Care through the Lens of Portuguese Palliative Care Professionals: A Qualitative Thematic Analysis.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- An exploratory study on becoming a traditional spiritual healer among Baganda in Central Uganda.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Regaining Autonomy in a Holding Environment: Patients' Perspectives on the Existential Communication with Physicians When Suffering from a Severe, Chronic Illness: A Qualitative Nordic Study.Journal of religion and health · 2023Article
- SPACEE Protocol: "Spiritual Care Competence" in PAlliative Care Education and PracticE: Mixed-Methods Research in the Development of Iberian Guidelines.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- "Keeping the Light On": A Qualitative Study on Hope Perceptions at the End of Life in Portuguese Family Dyads.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundPatients receiving palliative care may benefit greatly when their existential or spiritual strengths are fostered. To date however, there has not been a comprehensive literature review of patient and care professional approaches that are available.
aimsTo describe and synthesise existential or spiritual strength-based approaches within the context of palliative care.
methodsLiterature search of 2436 articles between January 1999 and March 2019 in Scopus, Web of Science, CINAHL and PsycINFO. Articles were included if they deal with a palliative care situation, focus on the patient, specific existential/spiritual strength, discernible strength approach and an analysis of the workings of that approach. The interpretative synthesis consisted of a thematic analysis of the included articles and an integration of themes.
resultsIn the 14 included articles, 5 different strengths were found to be fostered by 16 approaches: (1)
conclusionsThe constructed Propeller framework can be used to become aware of, apply and further develop approaches to foster existential or spiritual strengths among patients receiving palliative care.
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