À propos

La médecine occidentale, notamment dans ses établissements de formation et de recherche, a porté peu d’attention traditionnellement aux aspects existentiels et spirituels de la maladie de même qu’à leur rapport aux résultats des soins de santé. Reconnaissant ce fait, la Faculté de médecine de l'Université McGill a créé en 1999 des programmes en soins holistiques (Whole Person Care). Ces programmes partent de la prémisse que, dans les situations où les traitements ne peuvent modifier l'évolution de la maladie, il peut être possible de créer un espace pour un processus de guérison. Si on sait que le domaine existentiel/spirituel est un déterminant important de la qualité de vie, on a peu insisté sur son intégration dans les systèmes de soins de santé. Les programmes de soins holistiques cherchent donc à intégrer les aspects physiques de la personne avec ses aspects psychologiques, culturels, sociaux et existentiels/spirituels, puis à répondre à la souffrance vécue par la personne entière dans son contexte particulier. Cette revue présente les efforts des membres du personnel soignant et de leurs patient·e·s, des chercheur·e·s et des autres personnes à travers le monde travaillant sur ces questions dans une perspective transdisciplinaire dans le but de traiter la personne de manière holistique avec dignité et compassion. Elle englobe également la personne entière du praticien et de la praticienne en se basant sur le postulat qu’un personnel soignant qui se sent bien favorise le bien-être des personnes qu'il soigne.

Politique éditoriale et éthique

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.Please visit the McGill University Library website for more information about Open Access initiatives at McGill.

Peer Review Process

Papers submitted to the Theoretical, Empirical Studies and Case Studies/Narratives sections of the journal will be subject to a double-blind review process. Authors are requested to submit the names of 4 potential reviewers. Those submitted to the Commentary section will be reviewed by Editors.

This journal uses double-blind review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process.  

To facilitate this, authors need to ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not give away their identity. 

Information to help prepare the Blinded Manuscript

Besides the obvious need to remove names and affiliations under the title within the manuscript, there are other steps that need to be taken to ensure the manuscript is correctly prepared for double-blind peer review.  To assist with this process the key items that need to be observed are as follows:

• Use the third person to refer to work the Authors have previously undertaken, e.g. replace any phrases like “as we have shown before” with “… has been shown before [Anonymous, 2007]” .
• Make sure figures do not contain any affiliation related identifier
• Do not eliminate essential self-references or other references but limit self-references only to papers that are relevant for those reviewing the submitted paper.
• Cite papers published by the Author in the text as follows:  ‘[Anonymous, 2007]’.
• For blinding in the reference list:  ‘[Anonymous 2007] Details omitted for double-blind reviewing.’
• Remove references to funding sources
• Do not include acknowledgments
• Remove any identifying information, including author names, from file names and ensure document properties are also anonymized

Copyright Notice 

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal. Creative Comons 4.0 CC-BY

Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

The following publications ethics and publication malpractice statement is based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and the Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers. 

Duties and Responsibilities of Editors

Publication Decisions 

Editors are responsible for deciding which of the manuscripts submitted to the journal will be published. Editors will evaluate manuscripts without regard to the author’s race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, political philosophy, or institutional affiliation. Publication decisions will be based on the manuscript’s importance, originality, clarity, and relevance to the journal’s scope. Current legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism will also be considered. 

Confidentiality

Editors and editorial staff will not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate. 

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript will not be used by editors for their own research purposes without the author’s explicit written consent. Editors will recuse themselves from considering manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships with any of the authors or institutions connected to the submission. 
 

Duties and Responsibilities of Reviewers

Contribution to Editorial Decisions

Peer review assists the editors in making publication decisions and, through editorial communications with the author, may also assist the author in improving the manuscript. 

Promptness

Any selected reviewer who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible will immediately notify the editors and withdraw from the review process. 

Confidentiality

Manuscripts received for review will be treated as confidential documents. They will not be disclosed to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editors. 

Standards of Objectivity

Reviews will be conducted objectively and observations formulated clearly with supporting arguments. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. 

Acknowledgment of Sources

Reviewers will identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. They will point out whether observations or arguments derived from other publications are accompanied by acknowledgments of the respective sources. Reviewers will notify the editors of any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other material (published or unpublished) of which they have personal knowledge. 

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript will not be used by reviewers for their own research purposes without the author’s explicit written consent. Reviewers will recuse themselves from considering manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships with any of the authors or institutions connected to the submission. 

Duties and Responsibilities of Authors

Originality, Plagiarism, and Acknowledgment of Sources

Authors will submit only entirely original works and will appropriately cite the work of others. Publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work should also be cited. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable. 

Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publication or Submission

Authors should not publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Manuscripts that have been published elsewhere cannot be submitted. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable. 

Authorship of the Manuscript

All those who have made a significant contribution to the submitted manuscript should be listed as co-authors. The corresponding author will ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no uninvolved persons are included in the author list. The corresponding author will also ensure that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the manuscript and have agreed to its submission for publication. 

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

Authors should include a statement disclosing any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that might be construed as having influenced their manuscript’s results or interpretation. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed. 

Fundamental Errors in Published Works

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his or her own published article, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editors or publisher and to cooperate with editors to retract or correct the article in the form of an erratum. 

Comité de rédaction

Editor-in-Chief

Timothy H. Wideman
School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Associate Editor

Steven Jordan
Faculty of Education, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Managing Editor

Angelica Todireanu
Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Editorial Board

Tom Hutchinson
Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Mark Smilovitch
Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Stephen Liben
Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Satoru Tsuneto
Department of Multidisciplinary Cancer Treatment
Kyoto University, Japan

Cory Ingram
Mayo Clinic, United States

Elizabeth A. Rider
Harvard Medical School, United States

Hamish Wilson
Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago
Dunedin, New Zealand