"Oh, yeah, I'm getting closer to god": spirituality and religiousness of family caregivers of cancer patients undergoing palliative care.
Purpose: Within the cancer palliative care setting, where both patients and family caregivers (FCs) undergo a transition from the end of curative treatment to palliative therapy, spirituality and religiousness (S/R) may be a strategy to help the patients and FCs better cope with the disease, in addi...
| Published in: | Supportive Care in Cancer Vol. 23; no. 8; pp. 2383 - 2390 |
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| Format: | research Journal Article |
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Springer Nature
Aug2015
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