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The healing journey: incorporating psychological and spiritual dimensions into the care of cancer patients
Research on the factors that promote healing of the body through mind and spirit is at a very early stage. Reliance on experimental designs seems premature; we need much more exploratory research to identify relevant variables and useful therapeutic approaches before applying to them the same method...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2528559/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18769577 |
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description | Research on the factors that promote healing of the body through mind and spirit is at a very early stage. Reliance on experimental designs seems premature; we need much more exploratory research to identify relevant variables and useful therapeutic approaches before applying to them the same methods used to evaluate drugs. The Healing Journey is a program that has been in operation since 1982 at the Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Ontario. Observational data collection, followed by qualitative analysis has demonstrated benefits for many cancer patients. |
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spelling | pubmed-25285592008-09-03 The healing journey: incorporating psychological and spiritual dimensions into the care of cancer patients Cunningham, A.J. Curr Oncol E-Manuscript Article Summaries* Research on the factors that promote healing of the body through mind and spirit is at a very early stage. Reliance on experimental designs seems premature; we need much more exploratory research to identify relevant variables and useful therapeutic approaches before applying to them the same methods used to evaluate drugs. The Healing Journey is a program that has been in operation since 1982 at the Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Ontario. Observational data collection, followed by qualitative analysis has demonstrated benefits for many cancer patients. Multimed Inc. 2008-08 /pmc/articles/PMC2528559/ /pubmed/18769577 Text en 2008 Multimed Inc. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | E-Manuscript Article Summaries* Cunningham, A.J. The healing journey: incorporating psychological and spiritual dimensions into the care of cancer patients |
title | The healing journey: incorporating psychological and spiritual dimensions into the care of cancer patients |
title_full | The healing journey: incorporating psychological and spiritual dimensions into the care of cancer patients |
title_fullStr | The healing journey: incorporating psychological and spiritual dimensions into the care of cancer patients |
title_full_unstemmed | The healing journey: incorporating psychological and spiritual dimensions into the care of cancer patients |
title_short | The healing journey: incorporating psychological and spiritual dimensions into the care of cancer patients |
title_sort | healing journey: incorporating psychological and spiritual dimensions into the care of cancer patients |
topic | E-Manuscript Article Summaries* |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2528559/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18769577 |
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