There is an acute need to define the specific skills that make chaplains integral to the healthcare team. This prospective study attempts to identify those skills that may be specific to [...]
BACKGROUND: Provision of spiritual/religious (S/R) care has been associated with improvements in patient care, patient-provider relationships, and resource utilization. Clinicians identify a lack [...]
Abstract: Recognizing and understanding the potentially powerful roles that religiousness and spirituality (RS) may serve in the prevention and amelioration of disease, as well as symptom [...]
Message in a bottle: a comparative study of spiritual needs of children and young people in and out of hospital
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Using the metaphor of a message in a bottle as a framework and sending an S.O.S. to adults, the question of what are the three biggest needs of children and young people was asked. Data [...]
Ethics, Politics, and Religion in Public Health Care: A Manifesto for Health Care Chaplains in Canada
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Abstract: Health care chaplaincy positions in Canada are significantly threatened due to widespread health care cutbacks. Yet the current time also presents a significant opportunity for [...]
Reconciliation through Narrative: Toward a Theology of Spiritual Care in Public Health Care Practice
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In the West, chaplains are often employed by state mandated and state funded health care institutions. Because such western institutions are predicated upon the principles of secular liberalism, [...]
Screening for Spiritual Struggle in an Adolescent Transgender Clinic: Feasibility and Acceptability
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Spiritual struggles are associated with poorer health outcomes, including depression, which has higher prevalence among transgender individuals than the general population. This study’s objective [...]
Hospital Characteristics Affecting HealthCare Chaplaincy and the Provision of Chaplaincy Care in the United States: 2004 vs. 2016
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This study replicates, expands and analyzes a 2004 survey examining six hospital characteristics influencing three measures of chaplain employment in large, small, for-profit and nonprofit [...]
Spiritual/Religious Distress Is Associated with Pain Catastrophizing and Interference in Veterans with Chronic Pain
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ABSTRACT: Objective: Few studies have examined relations between one important aspect of spiritual/religious functioning—spiritual distress—and pain-related outcomes, and none has examined how [...]
An e-Chart Review of Chaplains’ Interventions and Outcomes: A Quality Improvement and Documentation Practice Enhancement Project
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Abstract: In Canada, the spiritual care landscape in health care settings is becoming more regulated and standardized documentation is part of this rigorous environment. Staff chaplains at The [...]