Screening for spiritual struggle
A growing body of research documents the harmful effects of religious or spiritual struggle among patients with a wide variety of diagnoses. We developed a brief screening protocol for use in [...]
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The spiritual distress assessment tool: an instrument to assess spiritual distress in hospitalised elderly persons
BACKGROUND: Although spirituality is usually considered a positive resource for coping with illness, spiritual distress may have a negative influence on health outcomes. Tools are needed to [...]
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Describing what chaplains do in hospitals
Reports on a research project that describes the unique activities in which chaplains engage as they provide pastoral care and counseling and spiritual direction to patients in a large, acute [...]
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The Patient is Dying, Please Call the Chaplain’: The Activities of Chaplains in One Medical Center’s Intensive Care Units
CONTEXT: Patients and families commonly experience spiritual stress during an intensive care unit (ICU) admission. Although most patients report that they want spiritual support, little is known [...]
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Spiritual care as person centred care: a thematic analysis of interventions
What we know already. The Lothian PROM has shown us that chaplaincy benefitted all in this sample not just the faithful, religious or spiritual. However, this deduction arose from statistical [...]
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