Having a strong sense of spirituality helps patients to adjust to illness. Brady and colleagues assessed over 1,000 cancer patients and found that patients with high levels of spiritual well-being reported more life enjoyment, Even in the presence of pain or fatigue. Specifically, for those patients in pain, 47.8% of patients who reported high levels of meaning and peace “enjoyed life very much,” whereas only 9.3% patients who reported low levels of meaning and peace “enjoyed life very much”. Other studies have shown that spiritual well-being in cancer patients has been associated with lower levels of depression, better quality of life near death, and protection against end-of-life despair and desire for hastened death.