Improving Spiritual Well-Being of Polish Pain Outpatients: A Feasibility Mixed Methods Study.

: A physician in a chronic pain treatment clinic must recognize that the relationship between pain and spirituality is bidirectional. Chronic pain can decrease the level of spiritual well-being, and low spiritual well-being can also significantly intensify the perception of pain and worsen coping with it. Currently, for many scientific and medical communities, it is evident that spiritual care is an indispensable element of holistic medicine.

Spiritual Distress and Spiritual Needs of Chronically Ill Patients in Poland: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Introduction: Spiritual care is needed in a clinical setting to improve the patients' quality of life. Deep connection with another person and delight with the beauty of nature or art and (in some cases) with God are all transcendental experiences. They may enable patients to ascribe meaning to their life with a chronic illness, find hope and well-being despite burdening symptoms.

Spiritual care in the intensive care unit.

The aim of the present paper is to describe the real possibilities of providing spiritual care in intensive care units (ICUs) in Poland. Faced with suffering and death, critically ill patients and their families need a source of comfort and hope. Spiritual care is intended to bring relief to them by responding to their spiritual needs.