Does the Working Environment Influence Health Care Professionals' Values, Meaning in Life and Religiousness? Palliative Care Units Compared With Maternity Wards

摘要

Context. Increased altruism, self-transcendence, and quests for meaning in life (MiL) have been found in palliative care (PC) patients and their families who experience the finiteness of life. Similar changes were observed in healthy subjects who were experimentally confronted with their mortality.