Religious, and Ethno-Cultural Competence in Palliative and End-of-Life Care


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ISSN 2573-4393
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OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine , Volume 5 , Issue 1 (2020)
Pages: 251
Published: April 2020
(This book is a printed edition that was published in OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine)
Cover story: Dignity Therapy is designed to bring about a sense of meaning and purpose for individuals at the end of life. In this edition, Lucy Watts and colleagues report how they explored the acceptability of Dignity Therapy for children, young people, and health professionals and detail findings from their stakeholder activities. View this paper.
Volume 5,Issue 1
Religious, and Ethno-Cultural Competence in Palliative and End-of-Life Careby
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Heart Rate Variability during Acupuncture Treatment of Lumbosacral PainAbstract Pain could be directly related to autonomous imbalance. To date, only one scientific work examining heart rate variability (HRV) and heart rate (HR) as the important parameters of autonomous nervous system (ANS) in the context of clinical routine acupuncture treatments for lumbosacral pa [...] |
Sociodemographic Variables and History of Trauma and Disease Influence Consciousness after Hypnotic InductionAbstract Over the last 30 years, several neuroimaging and neurophysiological experiments have lent support to the neuropsychology of consciousness, and several definitions have followed to describe it. The phenomenological perspective of consciousness facilitates the description of the individual’s awareness [...] |
Similarities and Differences in East Asian Massage and Bodywork Therapies: A Critical Reviewby
![]() ![]() Abstract Several manual bodywork therapies that originated in Asia are related to the theory and practice of acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). One of the aims of these therapies is to stimulate specific points on the body called acupoints which are the same points in which needles are inser [...] |
Stakeholder Perceptions of Dignity Therapy for Children and Young People with Life-Limiting and Life-Threatening Conditions in the UKAbstract In palliative and end of life care settings supporting people to make sense of their lives is as important as managing disease symptoms. Dignity Therapy is a validated psychotherapeutic intervention designed to bring about a sense of meaning and purpose for individuals at the end of life. Dignity Th [...] |
Acupuncture for Management of Symptom Clusters in a Patient with Metastatic Breast Cancer: A Case ReportAbstract Acupuncture has increasingly been used to address a variety of symptoms in patients with cancer. Here we present a case to illustrate the use of acupuncture in a 35-year-old female with metastatic breast cancer who presented to the UCLA Center for East-West Medicine (CEWM) with physical and psycholo [...] |
The Importance of Rapport in Hypnotic Clinical PracticeAbstract This article is based on the assumption that the therapist's focused attention, open awareness and kind intention are the basic ingredients for creating a relationship of trust with the patient from the first session. He also stresses that when the attention of a genuine therapist, without prejudice [...] |
COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease-19): Traditional Chinese Medicine including Acupuncture for Alleviation – A Report from Wuhan, Hubei Province in Chinaby
![]() ![]() Abstract Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has been used to prevent and alleviate epidemic diseases for hundreds of years. The combination of TCM and Western medicine can effectively reduce fever; alleviate cough, fatigue, diarrhoea and other symptoms of patients with mild COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease-19). [...] |
Anxiety Improvement after Oncology Massageby
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Abstract Literature suggests Oncology Massage (OM) reduces anxiety. However, research is limited in large, diverse, nonexperimentally manipulated outpatient samples of cancer patients. The purpose of this study was to 1) describe OM visit patterns, 2) describe anxiety response to OM, and 3) determine if OM r [...] |
Paradigms in Integrative Medicine and the Place of Clinical Hypnosisby
![]() Abstract The face of illness has changed with progress in public health, immunizations, and antibiotic medication. Today, medical clinics are more likely to see patients with chronic illnesses, stress-related conditions, and complex bio-psycho-social conditions. This is a global trend, affecting patients wor [...] |
Informatics and Artificial Intelligence Approaches that Promote Use of Integrative Health Therapies in Nursing Practice: A Scoping ReviewAbstract Integrative health (IH) therapies are increasingly used to manage health conditions, but barriers hindering nurses from offering IH therapies persist. Informatics and artificial intelligence (AI) approaches have potential to promote nurses’ professional use of IH therapies. The purposes [...] |
Hypnosis for Clinical Pain Management: A Scoping Review of Systematic ReviewsAbstract There is a growing body of research evaluating the effects of hypnosis for the management of clinical pain. A summary of the recent systematic review would help understand the quality of evidence regarding the efficacy of hypnosis, and provide directions for future research. We conducted a scoping r [...] |
Therapeutic Effects: The Integration of Creative Arts Therapy in Palliative Careby
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Abstract The University of Colorado Hospital (UCH) implemented a Creative Arts Therapy (CAT) program offering CAT to hospitalized patients as a component of comprehensive palliative care (PC) services. The objective of this pilot program evaluation study was to evaluate short-term effects of CAT on patient s [...] |
Gender Differences in Manual, Electro, and Laser Acupunctureby
![]() ![]() Abstract Acupuncture, being a unique method, is a millennia-old tradition in the field of Chinese medicine. However, it is surprising that there are very few scientific publications on acupuncture and its gender-specific effects. This article summarizes the previous work from the perspective of both Western [...] |
Working Memory in Collegiate Athletes and Non-Athletes: A Comparison of Team-Sports Athletes, Solo-Sports Athletes, Frequent Exercisers and Infrequent Exercisersby
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Abstract Past research suggests that exercise is associated with improved working memory (WM) abilities, and that athletes have better executive functioning and WM skills than non-athletes. However, no studies to date have separated the effects of exercise from the effects of athletic participation when exam [...] |
Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation for Insomnia - A Review of Current Data and Future ImplicationsAbstract Neuroimaging evidences point to the role of hyperarousal in the pathophysiology of insomnia. While actual treatments fail to directly target brain hyperarousal, emergent complementary therapies known as neuromodulation techniques aim to improve sleep in people with insomnia by targeting irregulariti [...] |
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