To explore the associations of religious and spiritual faith (unambiguous, ambiguous and no faith), existential considerations and disease severity with use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) among heart patients in a secular society, and to address patients' perceived influence of CAM on their quality of life and heart disease.
More disagreement was observed concerning the underlying motivations for getting involved in CL: while shipper and retailers were interested in the added value and service it potentially offers, LSPs were motivated by existential considerations and the possibly disruptive character of CL developments.
Some song titles themselves sound like existential considerations like: "The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide is Press Coverage".
36 38 Both the patient and the caregiver experience agony, 39 and have spiritual and existential considerations.
In the 26-item abbreviated version of the questionnaire, the WHOQOL-BREF, spirituality is no longer a stand-alone domain, but one item about existential considerations (meaningful life) was carried over into the psychological domain [ 13].
Existential considerations for physicians included looking beyond the disease or symptoms and regarding the person in the bed as valuable and important, including up to the moment of and beyond death.
The existential happiness under consideration here may seem abstract, but it's a fundamental aspect of being human.
While dramatization of an environmental Armageddon might seem fanciful, existential risk warrants serious consideration even though the probability of an apocalypse is vanishingly small.
While the apparently affectless children supply enough "thriller" elements to keep a blurb-writer happy, School's Out is really a philosophical novel in the great tradition of Gide, Sartre and Camus, a serious consideration of existential alienation in contemporary French society.
This, from a citizen of a nation first forcibly grabbed and then reshaped by immigrants, struck me as a statement that was as lacking in compassion for and consideration as it was loaded with sheer existential dumbness.
