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Patients' And Caregivers' Needs, Experiences, Preferences And Research Priorities In Spiritual Care: A Focus Group Study Across Nine Countries., Lucy Ellen Selman, Lisa Jane Brighton, Shane Sinclair, Ikali Karvinen, Richard Egan, Peter Speck, Richard A Powell, Ewa Deskur-Smielecka, Myra Glajchen, Shelly Adler, Christina Puchalski, Joy Hunter, Nancy Gikaara, Jonathon Hope

Medicine Faculty Publications

Background:

Spiritual distress is prevalent in advanced disease, but often neglected, resulting in unnecessary suffering. Evidence to inform spiritual care practices in palliative care is limited.

Aim:

To explore spiritual care needs, experiences, preferences and research priorities in an international sample of patients with life-limiting disease and family caregivers.

Design:

Focus group study.

Setting/participants:

Separate patient and caregiver focus groups were conducted at 11 sites in South Africa, Kenya, South Korea, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Finland and Poland. Discussions were transcribed, translated into English and analysed thematically.

Results:

A total of 74 patients participated: median age …

Integrating Spirituality As A Key Component Of Patient Care, Suzette Bremault-Phillips, Joanne Olson, Pamela Brett-Maclean, Doreen Oneschuk, Shane Sinclair, Ralph Magnus, Jeanne Weis, Marjan Abbasi, Jasneet Parmar, Christina M. Puchalski

Medicine Faculty Publications

Patient care frequently focuses on physical aspects of disease management, with variable attention given to spiritual needs. And yet, patients indicate that spiritual suffering adds to distress associated with illness. Spirituality, broadly defined as that which gives meaning and purpose to a person’s life and connectedness to the significant or sacred, often becomes a central issue for patients. Growing evidence demonstrates that spirituality is important in patient care. Yet healthcare professionals (HCPs) do not always feel prepared to engage with patients about spiritual issues. In this project, HCPs attended an educational session focused on using the FICA Spiritual History Tool …

Improving The Spiritual Dimension Of Whole Person Care: Reaching National And International Consensus, Christina M. Puchalski, Robert Vitillo, Sharon K. Hull, Nancy Reller

Medicine Faculty Publications

Two conferences, Creating More Compassionate Systems of Care (November 2012) and On Improving the Spiritual Dimension of Whole Person Care: The Transformational Role of Compassion, Love and Forgiveness in Health Care (January 2013), were convened with the goals of reaching consensus on approaches to the integration of spirituality into health care structures at all levels and development of strategies to create more compassionate systems of care. The conferences built on the work of a 2009 consensus conference, Improving the Quality of Spiritual Care as a Dimension of Palliative Care. Conference organizers in 2012 and 2013 aimed to identify consensus-derived care …

Spirituality And Health, Arndt Bussing, Klaus Baumann, Niels Christian Hvidt, Harold G. Koenig, Christina M. Puchalski, John Swinton

Medicine Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Integrating Spiritual Care Within Palliative Care: An Overview Of Nine Demonstration Projects, Shirley Otis-Green, Betty Ferrell, Tami Borneman, Christina Puchalski, Gwen Uman, Andrea Garcia

Medicine Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.