Pedersen Christina G, Zachariae Bobby
Arhus Universitetshospital.
Ugeskr Laeger. 2008 Mar 3;170(10):847-9.
Research indicates unmet religious and spiritual needs among cancer patients both internationally and in a secular society like Denmark. Obtaining a patient's spiritual history is a way of identifying religious/spiritual needs. Spiritual well-being has been positively associated with global experience of quality of life and with increased psychological, social, and physiological well-being. Although religiosity/spirituality may represent a way of coping with cancer, at present no causality can be implied with respect to this relationship.
研究表明，在国际上以及在丹麦这样的世俗社会中，癌症患者都存在未得到满足的宗教和精神需求。获取患者的精神病史是识别宗教/精神需求的一种方式。精神健康与总体生活质量体验呈正相关，也与心理、社会和生理健康状况的改善相关。尽管宗教信仰/精神性可能是应对癌症的一种方式，但目前还不能就此关系推断出因果联系。
