This article summarizes the major types of research designs used in healthcare research, including experimental, quasi-experimental, and observational studies. Observational studies are divided [...]
This article summarizes the historical development of operational definitions and discusses their application to research on religion and health, and their importance for research, in general. [...]
Chaplains in the United States and around the world appear to support an evidence-based practice approach to chaplaincy. While there continues to be strong growth in spiritual care research, [...]
The literature review is a key component of professional journal articles and requires a thorough review of the relevant literature. The authors highlight some of the mistakes made by [...]
Traditionally, chaplains have provided care for staff through consultation, informal conversation, grief work, and more formal counsel and ritual. This article discusses four programmatic [...]
The Brief RCOPE is a 14-item measure of religious coping with major life stressors. As the most commonly used measure of religious coping in the literature, it has helped contribute to the growth [...]
Coping through prayer: An empirical study in implicit religion concerning prayers for children in hospital
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Abstract: This study links two fields of empirical research. The first field (grounded in empirical theology) is concerned with ordinary prayer and that aspect of implicit religion discernable [...]
Aim: To identify the spiritual and religious needs of young people with cancer, and to explore some implications of these for enhancing patient care. Method: Semi-structured interviews were [...]
As part of a small scale phenomenological study of the spiritual and religious needs of young people with cancer undertaken by Birmingham (UK) Children’s Hospital Chaplaincy in partnership with [...]
The authors are a multi-disciplinary team of chaplains, one with a counselling qualification, and an academic with a research background in spirituality and youth work. A pilot participation [...]