title: Blessings: the influence of a spirituality-based intervention on psychospiritual outcomes in a cardiac population.
abstract: Cardiovascular disease affects an individual's body, mind, and spirit. The multidimensional impact of heart disease requires holistic care that includes the spiritual dimension for patients to achieve optimal healing and recovery. This pretest, posttest repeated-measures quasi-experimental study sought to examine the influence of a spiritual intervention on psychospiritual outcomes in a cardiac population.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA. Colleen.Delaney@uconn.edu
authors.forename: Colleen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Delaney
authors.forename: Cynthia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Barrere
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D018939:Holistic Nursing; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D026443:Spiritual Therapies / Q000379:methods*