New insights on the emotional response of cancer patients and their spouses: where do they find help?
Reports the results of a questionnaire survey designed to discover relationships of the emotional responses of cancer patients and their spouses to variables of age, gender, and church attendance. Claims that contemporary high-tech health care developments tend toward a process of despiritualization, and that one-on-one spiritual relationships seldom occur with physicians, nurses, or pastors. Notes that pastors need to assume a greater role as spiritual leaders, encouraging all members of the health care team to contribute to healing the whole person.
Humphrey
L J
LJ
Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans' Hospital, Columbus, OH 65201, USA.
D000367:Age Factors; D002977:Clergy; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006694:Holistic Health; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D010327:Pastoral Care; D012008:Recurrence; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D012737:Sex Factors; D018454:Spouses / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States