BACKGROUND: This study aimed to assess quality of life in obese patients 1 year after bariatric surgery taking into consideration the influence of socio-demographic, clinical, and psychological [...]
PURPOSE: The spiritual dimension of a patient’s life is an important factor that may mediate detrimental impacts on mental health. The lack of research investigating spiritual well-being, [...]
Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the spiritual care-giving scale (C-SCGS) in nursing practice
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BACKGROUND: Spiritual care is defined as recognizing and responding to the needs of the human spirit when the individual is facing trauma, illness, or sadness. Providing spiritual care is one of [...]
Background: One of the components of a healthy life is attending to spiritual needs, which can reduce harmful behaviors. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the relationship between [...]
Does heart failure-specific health status identify patients with bothersome symptoms, depression, anxiety and/or poorer spiritual well-being?
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AIMS: Patients with HF often have underrecognized symptoms, depression, anxiety and poorer spiritual well-being (“QoL domains”). Ideally all patients should have HF-specific health [...]
Research Priorities for Health Care Chaplaincy in The Netherlands: A Delphi Study Among Dutch Chaplains
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The aim of this study was to identify research priorities for health care chaplaincy in The Netherlands according to practicing chaplains and chaplaincy leaders. To this end, a two-round Delphi [...]
Objective: Previous research indicates that 9-1-1 response to incidents involving children is particularly distressing for emergency medical services (EMS) clinicians. This qualitative study was [...]
Via ACPE: The Pacific Community of Practice is excited to invite all Certified Educator Candidates, those both in the “old” and “new” process, to participate in a unique educational opportunity. [...]
Our colleague Martin Walton, PThU, Netherlands writes on the recent conference of the Dutch Case Studies Project: The “Universitaire Centrum Geestelijke Verzorging” (UCGV) in the Netherlands is a [...]
Transforming Chaplaincy Fellow Paul Galchutt has been very active in Minnesota spiritual care: Paul will be a co-presenter at the Minnesota Hospice and Palliative Care Conference on Monday, April [...]