PURPOSE: This study aims to evaluate the relationship between nurses’ views on spirituality and spiritual care and their level of burnout. METHOD: This cross-sectional study used a [...]
The present research tested a mediation model specifying that divine struggle (e.g., anger at God, feeling punished or abandoned by God) mediates the associations of beliefs about suffering with [...]
In his treatise “De Anima (On the Soul),” Aristotle teaches that the “psyche”—the soul—is the full actualization of a person, incorporating the body, the purpose, and ultimately the sum total of [...]
Physical and spiritual well-being are often connected. In hospitals across the country, physicians and chaplains are connecting with each other to help patients. The Erlanger Hospital’s [...]
On November 10, 2017, The Center for Spirituality and Health at Mount Sinai hosted the conference Religion as a Social Determinant of Health. Dr. Ellen Idler, a leader in chaplaincy research, [...]
Primary care needs new models to facilitate advance care planning conversations. These conversations focus on preferences regarding serious illness and may involve patients, decision makers, and [...]
Numerous factors impede effective and timely end-of-life (EOL) care communication. These factors include delays in communication until patients are seriously ill and/or close to death. Gaps in [...]
The free, open-access website called “Let’s Get Together and Talk about Death,” or Death over Dinner (DoD), provides resources for initiating end-of-life conversations with [...]
Current innovative psychological therapies have made great progress in addressing existential suffering in dying patients but are often begun too late in the end-of-life process and often ignore [...]