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Balboni: Nurse and Physician Barriers to Spiritual Care Provision at the End of Life

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CONTEXT: Spiritual care (SC) from medical practitioners is infrequent at the end of life (EOL) despite national standards. OBJECTIVES: The study aimed to describe nurses' and physicians' desire to provide SC to terminally ill patients and assess 11...

Epstein-Peterson: Examining Forms of Spiritual Care Provided in the Advanced Cancer Setting

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Spiritual care (SC) is important to the care of seriously ill patients. Few studies have examined types of SC provided and their perceived impact. This study surveyed patients with advanced cancer (N = 75, response rate [RR] = 73%) and oncology nurses and...

Peteet: The Relationship between Medicine, Spirituality and Religion: Three Models for Integration

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The integration of medicine and religion is challenging for historical, ethical, practical and conceptual reasons. In order to make more explicit the bases and goals of relating spirituality and medicine, we distinguish here three complementary...

Rodin: Whose role? Oncology practitioners' perceptions of their role in providing spiritual care to advanced cancer patients.

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The purpose of this study is to determine how oncology nurses and physicians view their role in providing spiritual care (SC), factors influencing this perception, and how this belief affects SC provision.This is a survey-based, multisite study conducted...

Zollfrank: Teaching Health Care Providers to Provide Spiritual Care - a pilot study

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Authors: A.Zollfrank, K.M. Trevino, W.Cadge, M.J.Balboni, M. Thiel, G.Fitchett, K.GAllivan, T.VanderWeele, T.A.Balboni Background : Health care providers’ lack of education on spiritual care is a significant barrier to the integration of spiritual care...

Balboni: Religion, Spirituality, and the Hidden Curriculum: Medical Student and Faculty Reflections

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CONTEXT:Religion and spirituality play an important role in physicians' medical practice, but little research has examined their influence within the socialization of medical trainees and the hidden curriculum. OBJECTIVES:To explore the role of religion...

Rosmarin: Interest in Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy Among Acute Psychiatric Patients

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OBJECTIVE: Spiritually integrated psychotherapy (SIP) is increasingly common, though systematic assessment of interest in such treatments, and predictors of such interest, has not yet been conducted among acute psychiatric patients. METHODS: We conducted...

LeBaron: Clergy Views on a Good Versus a Poor Death: Ministry to the Terminally Ill

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Clergy are often important sources of guidance for patients and family members making medical decisions at the end-of-life (EOL). Previous research revealed spiritual support by religious communities led to more aggressive care at the EOL, particularly...

Balboni T.: Religion, Spirituality, and the Intensive Care Unit: The Sound of Silence

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Visualize for a moment the philosophical quandary of a tree falling in the uninhabited forest and whether it makes a sound—the dying tree, its surroundings of fellow trees, foliage, and earth— with no person to hear its fall. This visualization hardly...

Bandini: Student and Faculty Reflections of the Hidden Curriculum: How Does the Hidden Curriculum Shape Students' Medical Training and Professionalization?

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The hidden curriculum, or the socialization process of medical training, plays a crucial role in the development of physicians, as they navigate the clinical learning environment. The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine medical faculty and...

LeBaron: How Community Clergy Provide Spiritual Care: Toward a Conceptual Framework for Clergy End-of-Life Education

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Context: Community-based clergy are highly engaged in helping terminally ill patients address spiritual concerns at the end of life (EOL). Despite playing a central role in EOL care, clergy report feeling ill-equipped to spiritually support patients in...

Kim: Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide of Patients With Psychiatric Disorders in the Netherlands 2011 to 2014

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IMPORTANCE: Euthanasia or assisted suicide (EAS) of psychiatric patients is increasing in some jurisdictions such as Belgium and the Netherlands. However, little is known about the practice, and it remains controversial. OBJECTIVES: To describe the...