October, 2018 | Transforming Chaplaincy

Development of a tool to identify and assess psychosocial and spiritual needs in end-of-life patients: The ENP-E scale

October 28, 2018 palliative care

Objective: The goal of this study is to describe the development of a new tool, the Psychosocial and Spiritual Needs Evaluation scale Instrumento de Evaluación de Necesidades Psicosociales y [...]
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GPs and spiritual care: signed up or souled out? A quantitative analysis of GP trainers’ understanding and application of the concept of spirituality

October 28, 2018 education

GPs have a wide range of attitudes to spirituality which contribute to variations in reported spiritual care. Study aims were: to assess concepts of spirituality and their application in a sample [...]
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Chaplains Working in Palliative Care: Who They Are and What They Do.

October 28, 2018 palliative care

BACKGROUND: Palliative care (PC) programs utilize chaplains to address patients’ spiritual care needs; however, there is no comprehensive description of chaplaincy in PC programs [...]
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Family Perspectives on Hospice Care Experiences of Patients with Cancer

October 23, 2018 end of life, hospice, palliative care

Purpose: To determine whether hospice use by patients with cancer is associated with their families’ perceptions of patients’ symptoms, goal attainment, and quality of end-of-life (EOL) care. [...]
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Prevalence of predictors of burnout among hospice and palliative care clinicians in the U.S.

October 23, 2018 end of life, hospice, palliative care

CONTEXT: Many clinical disciplines report high rates of burnout, which lead to low quality of care. Palliative care clinicians routinely manage patients with significant suffering, aiming to [...]
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