ACPE Research Network Article of the Month
Transforming Chaplaincy is pleased to feature here the Article of the Month, produced by ACPE Research. Each month at least one article is discussed in detail; related resources are also recommended, as well as ways to incorporate this latest research into the classroom.
This month’s article was chosen especially for students and clinical chaplains new to the prospect of conducting research. It shows how a busy chaplain took a research-minded approach to addressing an issue for his department, developing a study in partnership with allied professionals. See also, in the Related Items of Interest section of the web page, resources regarding the “File Drawer Effect” and Joint Commission Standards.
Campbell, D., Robison, J. G. and Godsey, J. A. “Standardized spiritual screening increases chaplain referrals through the EMR: a nurse-chaplain collaboration for holistic acute healthcare.” Journal of Holistic Nursing 41, no. 1 (March 2023): 30-39.
PAST ISSUES
2023
2022
December: “Chaplains’ perspectives on standardizing spiritual assessments”
November: “The perceived impact of being a chaplain-researcher on professional practice.”
October: “Chaplain staffing and scope of service: benchmarking spiritual care departments.”
September: “How hospital chaplains develop and use rituals to address medical staff distress”
2021
November:”Spirituality and vicarious trauma among trauma clinicians: a qualitative study.”
August: “Religious and spiritual struggles among transgender and gender-nonconforming adults.”
May: “Patients’ and loved ones’ expectations of chaplain services”
April: “What did chaplains do during the Covid pandemic? An International Survey.”
February:”The role and activities of board-certified chaplains in advance care planning.”
January:”Hearing spiritually significant voices: a phenomenological survey and taxonomy.”
2020
January:”Hearing spiritually significant voices: a phenomenological survey and taxonomy.”
December:”Can outcome research respect the integrity of chaplaincy? A review of outcome studies“
November: “Palliative chaplain spiritual assessment progress notes”
October: “What chaplains wish nurses knew: findings from an online survey”
May: “Bereavement support on the frontline of COVID-19: recommendations for hospital clinicians.”
April: “A Moment in the Life of a SARS Chaplain”: A Reflection to Stir Thinking about COVID-19
February: Development of a Clinical Guide for Identifying Spiritual Distress in ICU Family Members
January: Healthcare chaplains’ perspectives on nurse-chaplain collaboration: an online survey
2019
January: Patient Reported Outcomes of Pastoral Care in a Hospital Setting (Using the Lothian PROM)
February: Distress and Self-Care among Chaplains Working in Palliative Care
March: Interprofessional models for shared decision making
April: The Effect of Trauma on Religious Beliefs
May: Educational Intervention of an Information Card to Increase Acceptance of Chaplaincy Services
2018
January: Stereotypes of Religious Professionals
February: Silence as an Element of Care
March: Assessing and Providing for the Psychosocial and Spiritual Needs of Burn Patients
April: Spiritual and Post-Stroke Aphasia Recovery
June: The Effect/Effectiveness of CPE
September: Chaplains’ Understanding and Interventions Related to Veteran Moral Injury
2017
January: Critical Care Nurses’ Perceptions of and Experiences with Chaplains
February: Qualitative Analysis of a Chaplain-Led Intervention for Patients with Brain Cancer
March: Profile of Chaplains Working In Palliative Care in the US
May: Analysis of Family Medicine Residents’ Journal Reflections: The “Inner Life” of Physicians
June: Perceptions of Chaplains’ Value and Impact within Hospital Care Teams
July: How Chaplains Are Seen by Parents of Hospitalized Children
August: A Test of Spiritual AIM (Spiritual Assessment & Intervention Model)
September: God Imagery and Affective Outcomes in a Spiritually Integrative Inpatient Program
October: State of the Science of Spirituality and Palliative Care Research
November: Conversation Game to Help Prepare Chaplains for End-of-Life Discussions
2016
January: Issues Post-Stroke for Muslim People in Maintaining the Practice of Salat
February: Factors That Influence Chaplains’ Suicide Intervention Behavior in the Army
April: Behavioral Outcomes of Supervisory Education in the ACPE
May: A Post-Code Pause for Staff after Resuscitations –A Process Potentially Involving Chaplains
July: Advancing Our Understanding of Religion and Spirituality in the Context of Behavioral Medicine
October: A Descriptive Study of Chaplain Notes in the ICU
November: Determining Best Methods to Screen for Religious/Spiritual Distress
December: How Families Find Strength, Comfort, and Purpose in Spirituality after Homicide
2015
January: Disclosure of Near-Death Experiences
February: Chaplains’ Visits and Patient Satisfaction
May: Teaching Non-Chaplain Providers to Integrate Spiritual Care into Their Practice
July: Patient and Family Perceptions of Chaplain Presence during Post-Trauma Care
August: Summary Analysis and Update on Religion, Spirituality, and Health Research
October: The Importance of Faith in FACIT-Sp Assessments of Quality-of-Life in Caner Survivors
November: Increasing the Number of Palliative Care Outpatients Receiving Spiritual Assessment
2014
February: The Shadowing of Chaplains as a Component of Medical Education
March: Research Methodology: Research Designs and Making Causal Inferences from Health Care Studies
April: Chaplains and the Practice of Prayer across Multiple Faiths
July: Spiritual Coping in Adolescents with Cystic Fibrosis
August: Introductory Overview of Qualitative Research Methodology for Chaplains
October: Negative Religious Coping and Suicidal Ideation in Advanced Cancer Patients
November: Review of the Role of Religion/Spirituality in Mental Health
2013
January: Piloting a Two-Question Nursing Screen and Referral Protocol for Patient Spiritual Distress
February: Religious Beliefs and Practices in End-Stage Renal Disease
March: Spirituality and Physicians’ Interpretations of Medically Unexplained Symptoms
April: Anger toward God among Family Members of Hospice Patients
June: Model Practices for Teaching Research in CPE
August: Nurse Responses to Patient Expressions of Spiritual Distress
September: Near Death Experiences and Spiritual Well-Being
December: Transcendent Language and the Measurement of “Spiritual Fitness”
2012
January and February: Two Major Reviews of Research on Chaplaincy
March: Secular Reverence and Hospital Length-of-Stay
April: Educating Chaplains for Research Literacy: A National Survey of CPE Residency Programs
May: Sacred Healing Stories Told at the End of Life
June: Overview of Spirituality in the Cancer Trajectory
July: The Spiritual Needs Assessment for Patients
September: A National Study of Chaplaincy Services and End-of-Life Outcomes
October: Unmet Spiritual Care Needs and Their Impact for Advanced Care Inpatients
November: Use of Spirituality after an Adult Diagnosis of Cystic Fibrosis
December: The Impact of Illness upon Faith (II-Faith) Measure
2011
January: The Spiritual Reconfigurations of Self after a Myocardial Infarction
February: Chaplains’ Presence and Patients’ Hopefulness at the End of Life
March: How Muslim and Non-Muslim Chaplains Serve Muslim Patients
April: Spiritual Care Competencies for Family medicine Resident Education
May: Chaplains and Disenfranchised Grief
July: Perspectives on Chaplaincy from Physicians and Chaplains
August: Attention to Patients’ Religious/Spiritual Concerns and Effect on Patient Satisfaction
October: Burnout, Secondary Traumatic Stress, and Social Support in a Sample of Chaplains
2010
January: Spiritual Care and Associations with Medical Care and Quality of Life Near Death
February: When Do Nurses Refer Patients to Professional Chaplains?
March: Spirituality of Childhood Cancer Services
April: A Spiritually Based Intervention for Generalized Anxiety Disorder
May: Forgiveness as a Mediator in Religion-Health Associations
June: Factors that Influence Surrogate Decision-Makers’ Perceptions of Prognosis
August: Evaluation of the FICA Tool for Spiritual Assessment
September: Proximal Intercessory Prayer
October: Using a Peer Consultation Model to Enhance Supervisor Development
November: Workshop Changing Chaplains’ Feelings about Research
2009
January: Religious Struggle, Death Concerns, Depression, and Terror Management Theory
February: Prayer Books, in which Hospital Patients/Visitors/Staff Write Prayers
March: Effect of Pastoral Care Services on Religious Coping and Other Responses to CABG Surgery
April: Religious Coping and the Use of Intensive Life-Prolonging Care Near Death
May: Spirituality and Turning Points in the Lives of Persons with HIV
June: Two New Overviews on Religion/Spirituality and Mental Health
July: JCOPE Measure of Religious Coping in Jewish Populations
August: Spirituality and Support for Family Presence at Resuscitations
September: Belief in a Concerned God and Response to Treatment for Depression
October: Meditation, Telomeres, and Cellular Longevity
November: Wagle Health-Specific Religiousness Scale (and a Spirituality & Cancer Bibliography)
2008
January: Sense Making in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis and Chronic Disease
February: Beliefs, Mental Health, and Evolutionary Threat Assessment Systems in the Brain
March: Patients’ Expectations of Hospital Chaplains
April: Gap Analysis of Cultural and Religious Needs of Hospitalized Patients
June: Violently Injured Patients Seen in the Emergency Department
July: The Provision of Chaplaincy Services in US Hospitals, 1980-2003
September: Overview of the Neurobiology of Spirituality
October: Effects of a Spiritual Meditation on Pain and Issues of Migraineurs
November: Mystical Experience in the Context of Health Care
December: Religion, Risk, and Medical Decision-Making at the End of Life
2007
January: Chaplains’ Involvement with Issues of Physical Pain
February: Spirituality and Eating Disorders
March: Do Pastoral Care Providers Recognize Nurses as Spiritual Care Providers?
April: Cerebral Blood Flow During Glossolalia
May: Patients’ Conceptualizations of Spirituality and Religion
June: The Influence of Spirituality/Religion on Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer’s Patients
July: Three Philosophical Approaches to the Study of Spirituality
August: Spirituality/Religion and Depression
September: “Vicarious Resilience” –A Concept with Implications for Chaplains
October: An Overview of Research on Forgiveness
November: Illness Trajectories and Spirituality
December: Spirituality and the Experience of American Indians Receiving Hemodialysis
2006
February: “Are You at Peace?”: One Item to Probe Spiritual Concerns at the End of Life
March: Spirituality and Bipolar Affective Disorder
April: An Ethnographic Study of Chaplains in a Pastoral Care Department with a CPE Intern Program
May: Research into Near-Death Experiences
June: Patients’/Families’ Use of the Internet for Spiritual Support
July: “Spiritual Modeling” –Learning Theory and Its Empirical Research
August: Patients’ Attitudes about Being Placed on Religion Lists for Clergy Visits
September: The Influence of Awareness of Terminal Illness on Spiritual Well-Being
October: Neuroscience and Emotion: the Research of Joseph LeDoux on the Amygdala
November: Matters of Spirituality at the End of Life in the PICU
December: Washing Away Your Sins: Threatened Morality and Physical Cleansing
2005
February: Clergy and the Provision of End-of-Life Care (–with implications for pastoral education)
March: Positive Spiritual Outcomes from Surviving Haematological Malignancies
April: Beliefs in an Afterlife and Their Health-Related Effects
May: How Spirituality May Be Affected by Trauma
June: New Spiritual Assessment Instruments
July: A Field Analysis of Spirituality, Religion and Health
August: The Heritability of Religiousness (and Religiousness as a Sixth Factor of Personality)
September: The Role of Spirituality in Weight Management
October: Physician Perspectives and Characteristics Regarding Religion/Spirituality
November: Efficacy of Frequent Mantram Repetition
December: The Effects of Spiritual vs. Secular Meditation on (Physical) Pain Outcomes
2004
January: Background to Fetzer’s Multidimensional Measurement of Religiousness/Spirituality
February: Spiritual Well-Being, Part 1: Spiritual Well Being and the FACIT-Sp Measure
March: Spiritual Well-Being, Part 2: Studies Using the Spiritual Well-Being Scale
May: A Study of Chaplains’ Interventions and Referrals at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
June: Research on the Meaning and Use of the Terminology of Spiritual Pain / Existential Pain
August: Clergy as Physician/Community Resources
September: Physician-Patient Interaction Regarding Spirituality
October: Spiritual Needs and Patient Satisfaction
November: Religious Struggle During Illness
December: Spiritual Well-Being, Part 3: The Spirituality Index of Well-Being Scale
2003
February: The Ironson-Woods Spirituality/Religiousness Index and Persons Living with HIV/AIDS
April: Religious Coping and Chronic Illness (with a bib. introducing religious coping)
May: Four Important Overview Articles on the State-of-the-Science in Spirituality and Health
June: Muslim Patient Issues and the Effect of Illness/Treatment on Religious Practice
July: Attitudes Regarding Disclosure of Medical Errors
August: Post-Termination Phase of Psychoanalysis–with Implications for CPE
September: Overview of Research-Related Issues in the Field of the Psychology of Religion
October: An Ethnographic Study of CPE/Chaplaincy in the Contemporary Hospital Setting
November: Studies on Remote Intercessory Prayer: Methodology and Assumptions
December: Findings from Quantitative Research and the Work of David B. Larson, M.D.