Patients’, Staff, and Providers’ Factual Knowledge About Hospital Chaplains and Association with Desire for Chaplain Services

Stavig, Alissa R.; Bowlby, Lynn; Oliver, John P; Henderson, Katherine K.; Dillard, Jan; Nickolopoulos, Elissa; Hemming, Patrick

doi:10.1007/s11606-020-06388-8

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“…Authors such as Lindholm (2017), Handzo et al (2022), and Stavig et al (2022) have documented stereotypes and factual knowledge gaps that patients hold about chaplains that may affect patient desire for services and likelihood of referrals from clinical colleagues. In the context of this study, our data (Figure 4) indicated strong patient desire for outpatient chaplain care in six care scenarios.…”

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“…The 2019 survey sought to assess patients’ factual knowledge about healthcare chaplains and their desire for chaplain services in specific hypothetical scenarios. During our first collection period, we noted significant gaps in respondents’ factual understanding of chaplains’ roles, expertise, and training (Stavig et al, 2022) which made us curious about potential patterns of which patients might be most receptive to and supported by the chaplain. In addition to demographics, participants also provided their responses to the five-question DUREL .…”

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Patient Religiosity and Desire for Chaplain Services in an Outpatient Primary Care Clinic

Henderson

Oliver

Hemming

2023

J Pastoral Care Counsel

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Outpatient chaplaincy is a new specialty in healthcare, with a relative paucity of research studies exploring the need for spiritual care interventions in ambulatory settings. Over the past 3 years, our interdisciplinary team at the Duke Outpatient Clinic has piloted the extension of professional spiritual care into this hospital-based resident teaching clinic offering primary care to underserved populations in Durham, NC. In this article, we report the results of a series of surveys that we conducted at the clinic to assess patients’ perceptions of chaplain services, understanding of Chaplains’ roles, and desire for chaplain services in specific hypothetical scenarios. As part of this survey, we also asked patients about their personal levels of extrinsic and intrinsic religiosity using the well-validated Duke University Religion Index. Our results indicate which chaplain interventions are most desired among this patient population in relation to patients’ self-reported religiosity. We hypothesized that only our more religious patients would strongly desire chaplain support for the majority of scenarios presented. We were surprised to find that a majority of our patients—regardless of their own level of religiosity—express desire for support from an outpatient healthcare chaplain when they need a listening ear, are grieving a loss, or are seeking prayer.

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