The NERSH International Collaboration on Values, Spirituality and Religion in Medicine: Development of Questionnaire, Description of Data Pool, and Overview of Pool Publications

Abstract

Abstract:Modern healthcare research has only in recent years investigated the impact of health care workers' religious and other moral values on medical practice, interaction with patients, and ethically complex decision-making. Thus far, no international data exist on the way such values vary across representatives of several national research groups came together and worked at optimizing the survey instrument for future use on the basis of the existing datasets. Research groups were identified through personal contacts with researchers requesting to use the instrument, as well as through two literature searches. Data were assembled in Stata and synchronized for their comparability using a matched intersection design based on the items in the original questionnaire. With a few optimizations and added modules appropriate for cultures more secular than that of the United States, the survey instrument holds promise as a tool for future comparative analyses. The pool at this stage consists of data from eleven studies conducted by research teams in nine different countries over six continents with responses from more than 6000 health professionals. Inspection of data between groups suggests large differences in religious and other moral values across nations and cultures, and that these values account for differences in health professional's clinical practices.

How Korean Psychiatric Staff Deal with Religious and Spiritual Issues of Patients: What Is Professional?

“…These original items were constructed based on several relevant literature and qualitative pilot studies, and they were tested via multiple iterations of an expert panel review (Curlin et al 2007). In recent years, RSMPP has been used to see professionals' aspects on ReS issues in various medical specialties, such as geriatrics, internal medicine or psychiatry, in several nations (Kørup et al 2017;Hvidt et al 2016).…”

Religious values of physicians affect their clinical practice

“…In April, 2016, we (first author and last author) performed a citations search in Web of Science and also a systematic literature search in Medline, Embase, PsycInfo, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. We searched for RSMPP or NERSH surveys not known within our professional network (for search strings and further details of this review, please see Hvidt et al [19] ).…”

The International NERSH Data Pool—A Methodological Description of a Data Pool of Religious and Spiritual Values of Health Professionals from Six Continents

“…Response rates range from 18% (116 responses out of 642 questionnaires sent in New Zealand with no possibility for followup on non-responders) to 95% (Brazil) and 99% (Indonesia)-the latter two secured due to tight follow-up including personal meetings and encouragements to complete the forms. Crude response rate was 59% for all currently included studies in the NERSH data pool [19] A total of 3883 physicians, 1189 nurses, and 286 midwifes were included. Other HPs such as psychologists, therapists, chaplains, and students are represented in smaller numbers (Table 4).…”