September, 2018 | Transforming Chaplaincy

‘Taking your place at the table’: an autoethnographic study of chaplains’ participation on an interdisciplinary research team

September 29, 2018 chaplain profession

Background: There are many potential benefits to chaplaincy in transforming into a “research-informed” profession. However little is known or has been documented about the roles of chaplains on [...]
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Religion, spirituality, and physical health in cancer patients: A meta-analysis

September 29, 2018 physical health, religion, spirituality

Although religion/spirituality (R/S) is important in its own right for many cancer patients, a large body of research has examined whether R/S is also associated with better physical health [...]
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Measures of central tendency in chaplaincy, health care, and related research

September 29, 2018 health care, research

The three measures of central tendency are discussed in this article: the mode, the median, and the mean. These measures of central tendency describe data in different and important ways, in [...]
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Bedside clinical signs associated with impending death in patients with advanced cancer: Preliminary findings of a prospective, longitudinal cohort study

September 29, 2018 cancer

BACKGROUND: Five highly specific physical signs associated with death within 3 days among cancer patients were recently reported that may aid in the diagnosis of impending death. In this study, [...]
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Validation of the Intrinsic Spirituality Scale (ISS) with Muslims

September 29, 2018 muslims

This study validates an existing spirituality measure—the intrinsic spirituality scale (ISS)—for use with Muslims in the United States. A confirmatory factor analysis was conducted with a diverse [...]
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Monthly Archive for: "September, 2018"

‘Taking your place at the table’: an autoethnographic study of chaplains’ participation on an interdisciplinary research team

Religion, spirituality, and physical health in cancer patients: A meta-analysis

Measures of central tendency in chaplaincy, health care, and related research

Bedside clinical signs associated with impending death in patients with advanced cancer: Preliminary findings of a prospective, longitudinal cohort study

Validation of the Intrinsic Spirituality Scale (ISS) with Muslims