title: [Spiritual pain].
abstract: We defined a spiritual pain as feelings of failure and regret at end-of-life, followed by hopelessness and worthlessness in patient's own life. In Japanese, spiritual pain should be assessed in patient's dignity, psycho-social factor, and prognostic stage, not only in religious context. And patient's spirituality should be supported with providing pain and symptom relief based on human relationships. "Sterbebegleitung" is a German proverb, introduced by Alfons Deeken, and seemed to be a suggestive word for such hope-recovering relationships.
authors.affiliation: Department of Palliative Care, Hachinohe City Hospital, Hachinohe 031-8555.
authors.forename: Satoru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sato
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*; D029181:Spirituality; D014342:Truth Disclosure