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Published on: April 20, 2018
[Religiosity and spirituality as ressources for head neck cancer patients]
Petr Vitek1,2, Sven Koscielny2, Arndt Büssing3
1Klinik für Hämatoonkologie, Universitätsklinikum Jena, Germany.
Objective:
Spiritual Care is a well established part of palliative medicine. Are religiosity / spirituality also ressources of patients during the early phases of a head neck cancer (HNC) disease?
Material And Methods:
We included 113 HNC patients (27 women, 84 men, 2 divers) to a prospective study using questionnaires focused on actual burden (NRS), spirituality as ressource (SpREUK-15, spiritual needs (SpNQ-20), interpretation of illness (IIQ), and life satisfaction of patients (BMLSS-10, BMLSS-Support, WHO-5). 39 patients were still under therapy, 74 participants were cancer-survivors.
Results:
Only 31/111 (28 %) patients feel themselve as spiritual and/or religious. 72 % are neither spiritual nor religious. 51/111 see reflexion about their cancer disease as a specific ressource to overcome their actual cancer situation. Spiritual needs are religious in 35/112, existential in 67/112, inner peace in 90/112, and generativity in 84/112 patients. The accepted own religiosity and the actual stadium of disease are highly relevant impact factors on spiritual needs and ressources. HNC patients show a high part of depressive moods (WHO-5) and are (in trend) un-satisfied with their life and support situation.
Conclusion:
Up to 90 % of HNC patients have specific spiritual needs which are often hidden. Modern concepts of integrative oncology discover them, and enourage via these ressources the quality of life and the coping of cancer patients.
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