[The importance of spiritual well-being for cancer patients' quality of life].
Research indicates unmet religious and spiritual needs among cancer patients both internationally and in a secular society like Denmark. Obtaining a patient's spiritual history is a way of identifying religious/spiritual needs. Spiritual well-being has been positively associated with global experience of quality of life and with increased psychological, social, and physiological well-being. Although religiosity/spirituality may represent a way of coping with cancer, at present no causality can be implied with respect to this relationship.
Pedersen
Christina G
CG
Arhus Universitetshospital. cpede@as.aaa.dk
Zachariae
Bobby
B
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D003718:Denmark; D005086:Existentialism; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*; D011788:Quality of Life; D012067:Religion; D013140:Spiritualism