At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the [...]
Assessing and Communicating the Spiritual Needs of Children in Hospital: A new guide for healthcare professionals and chaplains
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What is meant by ‘spiritual care’? How can we assess and communicate the needs of a child in hospital effectively if we each have conflicting interpretations of [...]
Quantifying Geographic Variation in Health Care Outcomes in the United States before and after Risk-Adjustment
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Background: Despite numerous studies of geographic variation in healthcare cost and utilization at the local, regional, and state levels across the U.S., a comprehensive characterization of [...]
BACKGROUND: Studies of spirituality in initially healthy people have shown a survival advantage, yet there are fewer research studies in the medically ill, despite the widespread use [...]
This study situated theologically based beliefs about suffering as “mid-level” variables within a multilevel framework of ways in which people relate to the Divine. We examined [...]
The present research examined the relations between the Big Five factors of personality, religious/spiritual (r/s) struggles (tensions, conflicts, and strains pertaining to r/s life), and [...]
Developing Agreed and Accepted Understandings of Spirituality and Spiritual Care Concepts among Members of an Innovative Spirituality Interest Group in the Republic of Ireland
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A Spirituality Interest Group (SIG) was set up in in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland (ROI), in March 2013. This paper reports on some of the [...]
Research on therapist effectiveness (i.e., therapist effects) is important for spiritually oriented psychotherapy to mature and flourish as a specialty. Therapist effects are described and [...]
An online survey was conducted by twelve professional chaplain organizations to assess chaplains’ attitudes about and involvement in research. A total of 2,092 chaplains from 23 countries [...]
Sympathy, empathy, and compassion: A grounded theory study of palliative care patients’ understandings, experiences, and preferences
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BACKGROUND: Compassion is considered an essential element in quality patient care. One of the conceptual challenges in healthcare literature is that compassion is often confused with sympathy and [...]