Spiritual Communication Between Pediatric Oncologists, Caregivers, and Patients With Brain Tumors
Results suggest oncologists rarely integrate spiritual care into disease re-evaluation discussions. In light of recommendations from multiple consensus groups to integrate spiritual care into cancer care, future work should explore how generalist spiritual care training could better equip oncologists to attend to spiritual needs that arise along the cancer trajectory.
Authors
- Justin Nathaniel Baker (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6584-6483)
- Erica C. Kaye (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6522-3876)
- Amy S. Porter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7812-0286)
- Jennifer W. Mack (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5791-4178)
- Walter Spears
- Alexandra K. Superdock
Institutions
- Boston Children's Hospital (US)
- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (US)
- Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
- Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare (US)
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (US)
- Stanford Medicine (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Pediatric Blood & Cancer
- Published
- 2025-04-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/pbc.31721
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.33
Funders
- American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities