ArticleBehavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2023
Self-Transcendence: Association with Spirituality in an Italian Sample of Terminal Cancer Patients.
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- Spiritual needs, spiritual well-being and related factors among patients with gynecologic cancer: A cross-sectional study.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026Article
- Cultural Adaptation and Preliminary Assessment of the Italian Version of the FICA© Spiritual History Tool in the context of End-Of-Life Cancer Patients.Journal of religion and health · 2026Article
- Using chills-inducing music to augment self-transcendence, emotional breakthrough, and psychological insight during mindfulness and loving kindness meditation.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Exploring the relationship between illness perception, self-transcendence, and demoralization in patients with lung cancer: A latent profile and mediation analysis.Asia-Pacific journal of oncology nursing · 2025Article
- Spiritual Care and Spiritual Perspective: Assessing Oncology Patients' Perspectives and Their Implications for Healthcare Management.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The impact of illness perception on self-transcendence in gastric cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy: the chain mediating effect of hope levels and coping styles.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
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Abstract
Terminally ill cancer patients often experience demoralization and loss of dignity, which undermines their spiritual wellbeing, which could, however, be supported by the presence of other factors such as self-transcendence and religious coping strategies. To assess self-transcendence and religious coping strategies and how they influence spirituality, we studied 141 end-stage cancer patients (64.3% male; mean age 68.6 ± 14.6) with a Karnofsky Performance Status ≤ 50 and a life expectancy ≤ 4 months using the Self-Transcendence Scale, the Demoralization Scale, the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Spiritual Wellbeing (FACIT-Sp-12), the Brief Religious COPE, and the Patient Dignity Inventory. To understand the effects of these variables on spirituality, hierarchical multiple regression was performed on FACIT-Sp-12. The final model predicted 67% of the variance in spiritual wellbeing. Demoralization was the strongest influencing factor (β = -0.727,
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