Religion and spirituality can influence decisions about diet, animal-based medications, modesty, and the preferred gender of your health care providers. Some religions have strict prayer schedules that can interfere with medical treatment. Diverse religious and spiritual beliefs can influence patients' experiences and influence their decisions regarding treatment. People can approach medical problems in completely different ways depending on the teachings and traditions of their religion.
Spiritual well-being was significantly correlated with higher levels of physical, emotional and functional well-being and with a better quality of life. Greater spiritual well-being was associated with less decision-making conflict, lower uncertainty, a sense of being more informed and supported, and greater satisfaction with one's own decision. Most patients successfully implemented their decision and identified themselves as capable of making decisions early. Patients who were able to implement their decision had less decision-making conflict and higher levels of spiritual well-being and quality of life.
Within the 16 topics identified, spirituality was mainly described through the family. Patients who had received spiritual care showed better spiritual well-being and quality of life scores and showed fewer decision-making conflicts. Patients considered spirituality important during illness and believed that the need for spiritual support and specialized care could allow them to make decisions taking into account their own values and beliefs. The multidimensionality of spirituality was identified as a single and individual dimension that can be related to oneself, to others and to the world.
In addition, patients who were able to implement their decisions showed better emotional and spiritual well-being and a better quality of life. Facit-SP, which is one of the most used instruments in a palliative care setting to measure quality of life in general and spiritual well-being in particular, showed sufficient or very good internal consistency. In fact, spiritual well-being was associated with higher rates of physical, emotional, and functional well-being and with a better quality of life. Cultural adaptation and validation of the Portuguese questionnaire on spiritual well-being at the end of life in palliative care patients.
Exploring the relationships between depression, hopelessness, cognitive status, pain, and spirituality in patients with advanced cancer. The determinants of the decision-making process are not fully understood, and spirituality is essential to dealing with illness. 18% of those patients said that their spiritual needs were not met, and of those with unmet spiritual needs, they reported lower satisfaction with their medical care. Health professionals should provide patients with an opportunity to discuss their religious and spiritual beliefs and adapt their evaluation and treatment to meet their specific needs.
The challenge for health professionals is to understand that patients often rely on their religious and spiritual beliefs when making medical decisions. Therefore, this study aims to explore the influence of spirituality on health decision-making in palliative care outpatients, in particular by analyzing patients' personal perceptions of decision-making conflict and the relationship with spiritual well-being, and exploring patients' perceptions of spirituality and autonomy in health care decision-making. An independent analysis of these same data revealed that faith greatly contributed to the functional quality of life of cancer survivors, and nearly 70% of the participants stated that religion and spirituality had helped them overcome their experience with cancer. Pilot test of the French version of an interim measure by the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) on the spiritual well-being of people receiving palliative care for cancer.
