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Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy 2014Qualitative research methods are a robust tool for chaplaincy research questions. Similar to much of chaplaincy clinical care, qualitative research generally works with... (Review)
Review
Qualitative research methods are a robust tool for chaplaincy research questions. Similar to much of chaplaincy clinical care, qualitative research generally works with written texts, often transcriptions of individual interviews or focus group conversations and seeks to understand the meaning of experience in a study sample. This article describes three common methodologies: ethnography, grounded theory, and phenomenology. Issues to consider relating to the study sample, design, and analysis are discussed. Enhancing the validity of the data, as well reliability and ethical issues in qualitative research are described. Qualitative research is an accessible way for chaplains to contribute new knowledge about the sacred dimension of people's lived experience.
Topics: Anthropology, Cultural; Chaplaincy Service, Hospital; Humans; Models, Theoretical; Philosophy; Qualitative Research; Reproducibility of Results; Research Design
PubMed: 24926897
DOI: 10.1080/08854726.2014.925660 -
Anaesthesiology Intensive Therapy 2021The aim of the present paper is to describe the real possibilities of providing spiritual care in intensive care units (ICUs) in Poland. Faced with suffering and death,... (Review)
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The aim of the present paper is to describe the real possibilities of providing spiritual care in intensive care units (ICUs) in Poland. Faced with suffering and death, critically ill patients and their families need a source of comfort and hope. Spiritual care is intended to bring relief to them by responding to their spiritual needs. The literature review indicates the positive effects of providing spiritual care in ICUs. Spiritual care improves the quality of life of patients, satisfaction with medical care and even prevents or alleviates the negative psychological consequences of hospitalization. Moreover, it is beneficial to the ICU personnel, to their motivation, work efficiency, well-being and reduces the risk of burnout. Basic spiritual care that can be provided by any ICU physician on a daily basis is nothing more than the way of behaving towards a patient: seeing an individual who has his/her dignity, history, personality, beliefs, fears and hopes. Whenever disease-associated stress has led to an existential crisis, the ICU staff may request a hospital chaplain's visit. The physician can support the conscious patient by establishing a relationship with him: by showing concern, compassion and solicituide. According to some researchers, each patient admitted to the ICU should be asked questions about spiritual issues. If faith is important to the patient, it is necessary to allow him/her to use religious resources, which requires cooperation with a hospital chaplain. The paper discusses the ways the hospital chaplaincy operates in Poland and worldwide. Furthermore, the education of chaplains abroad and the scope of their tasks and activities are described.
Topics: Clergy; Female; Humans; Intensive Care Units; Male; Quality of Life; Spiritual Therapies; Spirituality
PubMed: 34714016
DOI: 10.5114/ait.2021.109920 -
The Journal of Pastoral Care &... Apr 2021
Topics: COVID-19; Clergy; Humans; Pastoral Care; Periodicals as Topic
PubMed: 33730919
DOI: 10.1177/1542305021994021 -
Deutsches Arzteblatt International Oct 2019
Topics: Catholicism; Clergy; Hand; Humans; Sex Offenses
PubMed: 31658942
DOI: 10.3238/arztebl.2019.0680 -
The Journal of Pastoral Care &... Apr 2021The aim of this study was to understand how chaplains delivered spiritual care to staff during the Covid-19 pandemic. The researchers analyzed data collected from an...
The aim of this study was to understand how chaplains delivered spiritual care to staff during the Covid-19 pandemic. The researchers analyzed data collected from an International Survey of Chaplain Activity and Experience during Covid-19 (N = 1657). The findings revealed positive changes that emerged and new practices evolved around the use of technology as useful tools for maintaining contact with staff.
Topics: COVID-19; Chaplaincy Service, Hospital; Clergy; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Pastoral Care; Patient Care Team; Personnel, Hospital; Surveys and Questionnaires
PubMed: 33730921
DOI: 10.1177/1542305020988844 -
Journal of Patient Experience Dec 2020A developing body of evidence indicates that chaplain care is associated with higher levels of patient/family satisfaction with their hospital care. We examined the...
A developing body of evidence indicates that chaplain care is associated with higher levels of patient/family satisfaction with their hospital care. We examined the association between chaplain care and patient experience among patients at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago who responded to Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems and Press Ganey survey items between 2011 and 2017. Information about chaplain care was taken from the inpatients' electronic medical record. Our analyses included 11 741 patients, 26.5% of whom had received any chaplain care. Patients with lower self-rated health were more likely to have received chaplain care ( < .001). In bivariate analyses, chaplain care was associated with lower likelihood of reporting the highest score for 4 patient experience items ( < .001). In multi-variable models that adjusted for patient self-rated health and other factors, the association between chaplain care and the 4 patient experience items was nonsignificant. There was no effect modification for patient religious affiliation, self-rated health, or other demographic factors. The chaplain care-patient experience association may be more complex than has initially appeared, and further research is needed to help us better understand it.
PubMed: 33457562
DOI: 10.1177/2374373520918723 -
Historia, Ciencias, Saude--Manguinhos 2021This article explores the appropriation of psychiatric terminology by French theologians and priests, within the context of the pathologizations of religion in the...
This article explores the appropriation of psychiatric terminology by French theologians and priests, within the context of the pathologizations of religion in the nineteenth century. This appropriation allowed the clergy to differentiate "authentic" mystical experience from feigned or "deviant" ones. Firstly, it analyzes medical and theological manuals that sought to create an opposition between hysteria and saintliness, which was useful from the ecclesiastical point of view. Secondly, it presents the reports of three priests on supposed female mystics with stigmata. It concludes that the appropriation of medical rhetoric by the clergy could be used to define the limits of religious experience approved by the Catholic church.
Topics: Catholicism; Clergy; Dissent and Disputes; Female; France; Humans
PubMed: 34190789
DOI: 10.1590/S0104-59702021000200007