October, 2017 | Transforming Chaplaincy

“I was able to talk about what was on my mind’. The operationalisation of person centred care

October 13, 2017 patient experience

What we know already. Specialist spiritual care can be broken down into discrete items within a questionnaire when grounded in the theory developed in the previous paper. However, in order to [...]
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The construction of the Lothian PROM

October 13, 2017 patient experience

What we know already Patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) are an increasingly popular and prevalent method of ascertaining the impact of an intervention in health. For example there are [...]
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Patient and healthcare perspectives on the importance and efficacy of addressing spiritual issues within an interdisciplinary bone marrow transplant clinic: a qualitative study

October 13, 2017 patient experience

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to use a qualitative approach to better understand the importance and efficacy of addressingspiritual issues within [...]
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The Religious Needs and Resources of Psychiatric In-Patients

October 13, 2017 mental health

A recent survey of psychiatric research indicates religion has been given little attention, and when it has been considered, the measures have been simplistic. The present study was designed to [...]
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Service user views of spiritual and pastoral care (chaplaincy) in NHS mental health services: a co-produced constructivist grounded theory investigation

October 13, 2017 mental health

BACKGROUND: Within the UK National Health Service (NHS), Spiritual and Pastoral Care (SPC) Services (chaplaincies) have not traditionally embraced research due to the intangible nature of their [...]
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