Category Archive for: "spiritual care"

Operationalizing the Measuring What Matters Spirituality Quality Metric in a Population of Hospitalized, Critically Ill Patients and Their Family Members

December 5, 2017 spiritual care

Context: Measuring What Matters (MWM) quality indicators support measurement of the percentage of patients who have spiritual discussions, if desired. Objectives: The objective of this study was [...]
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Teaching spirituality and spiritual care in health sciences education: A systematic review

December 5, 2017 education, spiritual care

Teaching spirituality and spiritual care in health sciences education has been identified as a need to enhance holistic care. However, educators seemed to be unprepared and have insufficient [...]
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God’s role in suffering: Theodicies, divine struggle, and mental health

December 5, 2017 research, spiritual care

The present research tested a mediation model specifying that divine struggle (e.g., anger at God, feeling punished or abandoned by God) mediates the associations of beliefs about suffering with [...]
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Integrating Spiritual Care into Palliative Consultation: A Case Study in Expanded Practice

October 17, 2017 palliative care, spiritual care

Recognizing and addressing spiritual needs has long been identified as a key component of palliative care (PC). More often than not, the provision of spiritual care involves referral to a [...]
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The impact of a spiritual legacy intervention in patients with brain cancers and other neurologic illnesses and their support persons

October 5, 2017 cancer, family, oncology, spiritual care

OBJECTIVE: The objectives were to assess the feasibility of using a novel, comprehensive chaplain-led spiritual life review interview to develop a personal Spiritual Legacy Document (SLD) for [...]
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