What Motivates Healthcare Professionals’ Referrals to Chaplains, and How to Help Them Formulate Referrals that Accurately Reflect Patients’ Spiritual Needs?

Poncin, Emmanuelle; Niquille, Brigitte; Jobin, Guy; Benaïm, Charles; Rochat, Etienne

doi:10.1080/08854726.2019.1582211

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“…For other participants this did not pose an insurmountable challenge, due to the strong relationship they already had with other staff. A good understanding of the role of chaplaincy also helped, and this finding is supported by others (Cohen, 2018;Damen et al, 2019;Poncin, Niquille, Jobin, Benaim, & Rochat, 2020). One way shown to improve referrals to chaplaincy is spiritual care training for other members of the healthcare team (Vlasblom, van der Steen, Knol, & Jochemsen, 2011).…”

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confidence: 71%

Responding to the “unknown assailant”: A qualitative exploration with Australian health and aged care chaplains on the impact of COVID-19

Jones

Washington

Kearney

et al. 2020

Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy

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The global coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has brought about physical, psychological and spiritual challenges within health and aged care services across Australia. The aim of this study was to consider the impact of COVID-19 from the perspective of Australian chaplains. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 17 chaplains. A grounded theory analysis identified three overarching themes: (1) a changing healthcare environment; (2) the impact of the virus; and (3) chaplains responding to the crisis. Increased healthcare restrictions in response to COVID-19 raised levels of fear and anxiety among patients, residents, family members and staff, and generated feelings of isolation and disconnection. Chaplains responded by providing a calm presence, being available, holding out hope, introducing creative ways to provide spiritual care and seeking spiritual nourishment themselves. The value of chaplaincy in health and aged care services is discussed in light of these findings.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 71%

Responding to the “unknown assailant”: A qualitative exploration with Australian health and aged care chaplains on the impact of COVID-19

Jones

Washington

Kearney

et al. 2020

Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy

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“…In addition to considering that spirituality is an intimate part of an individual’s personality that has nothing to do with the clinical relationship, doctors also commented on the lack of time in which to attend to the patients with respect to this dimension [ 57 , 58 , 59 , 60 ] due to the standardized protocols that do not allow it, with patients often being referred to other professionals who have more experience in this area. Since greater importance is attached to the other aspects of their clinical work within the healthcare practice, doctors tend to placeless importance on spiritual matters or avoid them altogether, delegating them to others (such as chaplains, counsellors, and pastoral workers) and neither taking on responsibility nor engaging in management training, as stated in other consulted sources [ 61 , 62 ]. A study by Kichenadasse et al [ 25 ] suggested possible solutions to the expressed difficulty of a lack of time, proposing the use of brief spiritual assessment tools in patients such as the Faith/Beliefs, Importance, Community, Address in care or action (FICA); Hope, Organised religion, Personal spirituality, Effects of care and decisions (HOPE); and Spiritual belief system, Personal Spirituality, Integration, Rituals/restrictions, Implications, and Terminal events (SPIRIT), which could facilitate assistance in both the detection of spiritual needs and the referral to spiritual care practitioners in an expedited manner.…”

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confidence: 99%

Spirituality in a Doctor’s Practice: What Are the Issues?

López-Tarrida¹,

Diego‐Cordero

Lima-Rodríguez

2021

JCM

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Introduction: It is becoming increasingly important to address the spiritual dimension in the integral care of the people in order to adequately assist them in the processes of their illness and healing. Considering the spiritual dimension has an ethical basis because it attends to the values and spiritual needs of the person in clinical decision-making, as well as helping them cope with their illness. Doctors, although sensitive to this fact, approach spiritual care in clinical practice with little rigour due to certain facts, factors, and boundaries that are assessed in this review. Objective: To find out how doctors approach the spiritual dimension, describing its characteristics, the factors that influence it, and the limitations they encounter. Methodology: We conducted a review of the scientific literature to date in the PubMed, Scopus, and CINAHL databases of randomised and non-randomised controlled trials, observational studies, and qualitative studies written in Spanish, English, and Portuguese on the spiritual approach adopted by doctors in clinical practice. This review consisted of several phases: (i) the exclusion of duplicate records; (ii) the reading of titles and abstracts; (iii) the assessment of full articles and their methodological quality using the guidelines of the international Equator Network. Results: A total of 1414 publications were identified in the search, 373 of which were excluded for being off-topic or repeated in databases. Of the remaining 1041, 962 were excluded because they did not meet the inclusion criteria. After initial screening, 79 articles were selected, from which 17 were collected after reading the full text. A total of 8 studies were eligible for inclusion. There were three qualitative studies and five cross-sectional observational studies with sufficient methodological quality. The results showed the perspectives and principal characteristics identified by doctors in their approach to the spiritual dimension, with lack of training, a lack of time, and fear in addressing this dimension in the clinic the main findings. Conclusions: Although more and more scientific research is demonstrating the benefits of spiritual care in clinical practice and physicians are aware of it, efforts are needed to achieve true holistic care in which specific training in spiritual care plays a key role.

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“…Spiritual care is one of the components of the biopsychosocial-spiritual care model, in which each caregiver needs to address the spiritual domain as a generalist [ 90 , 91 ]. This means that each caregiver needs to have the general skills to assess spiritual needs, be aware of spiritual themes, and be able to refer to the chaplain if needed [ 92 ]. The chaplain, who is the specialist in spiritual care and part of the healthcare team, meets all kinds of spiritual needs and themes during spiritual care interventions.…”

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confidence: 99%

Religious Coping Styles and Depressive Symptoms in Geriatric Patients: Understanding the Relationship through Experiences of Integrity and Despair

Desmet

Dezutter

Vandenhoeck

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Older persons are often confronted with challenging events in their lives. Religion can offer them a way to deal with these challenges. The study of religious coping styles helps us to understand how people find support in their religion or wrestle with aspects of their religion when they are confronted with difficulties. Especially when older adults face illness and hospitalization, religious coping styles might be triggered. Despite the fact that the public role of religion, especially Christianity, is diminishing in West European societies, a large group of Belgian geriatric patients call themselves religious. Previous studies have shown that there is a link between positive/negative religious coping styles and the depressive symptoms that often occur in older adults. More recently, some scholars have emphasized that this relationship is more complex. Therefore, this paper investigates the role of one possible underlying mechanism between positive/negative religious coping styles and depressive symptoms in geriatric patients, namely the developmental process of integrity and despair as two factors within this mechanism. One hundred thirty-nine geriatric inpatients from three hospitals in Belgium who reported to feel religiously affiliated were involved in this study. Our results indicate that experiences of integrity and despair function as an explanatory pathway in the relationship between negative religious coping styles and depressive symptoms. Further, a direct link was found between both when accounting for experiences of integrity and despair. For positive religious coping styles, no direct or indirect relationship with depressive symptoms was found. In healthcare, geriatric caregivers need to be aware of the interaction between positive and negative religious coping styles, the developmental process of integrity and despair, and depressive symptoms.

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What Motivates Healthcare Professionals’ Referrals to Chaplains, and How to Help Them Formulate Referrals that Accurately Reflect Patients’ Spiritual Needs?

Cited by 11 publications

References 18 publications

Responding to the “unknown assailant”: A qualitative exploration with Australian health and aged care chaplains on the impact of COVID-19

Responding to the “unknown assailant”: A qualitative exploration with Australian health and aged care chaplains on the impact of COVID-19

Spirituality in a Doctor’s Practice: What Are the Issues?

Religious Coping Styles and Depressive Symptoms in Geriatric Patients: Understanding the Relationship through Experiences of Integrity and Despair

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