Challenges and Innovations in Hospice Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review.

In addition to addressing nursing and medical needs, the social needs of patients within hospice care require assessment (i.e., relationships, isolation, loneliness, societal inclusion or exclusion, negotiating adequate formal and informal support, or living with a life-limiting condition).

The impact of COVID-19 on palliative care social work: An online survey by a European Association of Palliative Care Task Force.

Background: The SARS-Cov-2 (COVID-19) pandemic affected the delivery of health and social care services globally. However, little is known about how palliative care social work services were impacted.

Aim: The aim of this study was to capture and analyse data from palliative care social workers who provided professional support in a range of settings across 21 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic.

External support factors utilized by patients in coping with cancer: a European perspective.

Purpose: The article presents the results of research on psychosocial aspects of living with cancer in the Slovak Republic focusing on hospitalized and outpatient cancer patients in treatment during the curative stage of the disease. Assessing cancer patient's interest in receiving help from individual members of a multidisciplinary team was a part of the research.

Methods: The research was done through a questionnaire designed to focus on individual psychosocial aspects of cancer treatment.

Attitude of society towards people with mental illness: The result of national survey of the Slovak population.

Aims: Our survey has been aimed at identifying the society attitude towards people with mental illness in Slovakia.

Method: Selected group comprised 1,624 adult respondents with 18 years of age as the bottom limit. We applied reduced 26-item Community Attitudes Toward Mentally Ill Scale (CAMI) to the survey of the society attitude towards people with mental illness.

The Effect of Social Support and Meaning of Life on the Quality-of-Life Care for Terminally Ill Patients.

This study examines the effect of 2 indicators on quality of life (QOL): social support and meaning of life for terminally ill patients. These 2 indicators are very important from a psychological and spiritual point of view. The findings suggest that there is a statistically significant correlation between meaning of life and QOL (r = .