Spiritual needs among patients with chronic pain diseases and cancer living in a secular society

Pain Medicine (United States)

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1362-1373

  Büssing, Arndt ^a,b   Janko, Annina ^c   Baumann, Klaus ^b   Hvidt, Niels Christian ^b,d   Kopf, Andreas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cancer; Chronic Pain Diseases; Coping; Interpretation of Illness; Life Satisfaction; Religiosity; Spiritual Needs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRIEF MULTIDIMENSIONAL LIFE SATISFACTION SCALE; CANCER PAIN; CHRISTIAN; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COPING BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ESCAPE FROM ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPRETATION OF ILLNESS QUESTIONNAIRE; LIFE SATISFACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPIRITUAL CARE; SPIRITUAL NEED QUESTIONNAIRE; SPIRITUAL WELL BEING; SPIRITUALITY RELIGIOSITY AND COPING; TRUST;

CANCER; CHRONIC PAIN DISEASES; COPING; INTERPRETATION OF ILLNESS; LIFE SATISFACTION; RELIGIOSITY; SPIRITUAL NEEDS;

CHRONIC PAIN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SECULARISM; SPIRITUALITY;

EID: 84883763897     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: 15264637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pme.12198     Document Type: Article

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