Although Health Chaplaincy services are well-established in hospitals in the United Kingdom and across the world, Primary Care Chaplaincy is still in its infancy and much less extensively [...]
This article addressed the following questions: How are spirituality, spiritual need, and spiritual care in aged care defined? What constitutes spiritual care for older people in aged care? From [...]
BACKGROUND: Increased spiritual well-being is related to quality of life (QOL) in patients with heart failure (HF). However, consistent and deliberate integration of spirituality into HF patient [...]
Little research has examined the relationship between addressing older adults’ spiritual needs and overall satisfaction with service provision during hospitalization, despite the importance [...]
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study is to describe preferences of patients with heart failure (HF) for having advance care planning (ACP) discussions with clinicians and to identify [...]
Spirituality is an important aspect of humanity. Concerned with deriving meaning from events, and connection with others, it provides a mechanism for some to cope with illness and disability. [...]
SIGNIFICANCE: Lethal fetal diagnoses are made in 2% of all pregnancies. The pregnancy experience is certainly changed for the parents who choose to continue the pregnancy with a known fetal [...]
PURPOSE: Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a serious debilitating chronic illness, affecting approximately 90,000 Americans and millions globally. Spirituality and religiosity (S/R) may ease the [...]
Beba Tata, chaplain at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and one of our Fellows, was interviewed recently by the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab. Beba was the featured guest in the Lab’s [...]
From our colleagues in the European Research Institute for Healthcare Chaplaincy: The European Research Institute for Healthcare Chaplaincy (ERICH), the University Center for Chaplaincy Studies [...]