Exploring the Perceptions Surrounding Hospital Chaplains in Patient Care and Healing-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Exploring the Perceptions Surrounding Hospital Chaplains in Patient Care and Healing

Published:2022-05-25 Issue:3 Volume:76 Page:181-188
ISSN:1542-3050
Container-title:Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling: Advancing theory and professional practice through scholarly and reflective publications
language:en
Short-container-title:J Pastoral Care Counsel

Author:

Ma Yangmyung¹^ORCID,Riaz Armaan²,Shaikh Aitzaz Munir³,Bhatti Dujanah Siddique⁴,Farid Mohammed¹,Khan Muhammad Adil Abbas⁵

Affiliation:

1. Royal Stoke University Hospital, University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, Stoke-on-Trent, UK

2. Hull Royal Infirmary, Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Hull, UK

3. The Aga Khan University, Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan

4. Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, NHS Grampian, Aberdeen, UK

5. Pinderfields Hospital, Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Wakefield, UK

Abstract

The authors distributed a questionnaire to various hospital staff to explore perceptions surrounding the role of chaplains in patient care and healing through assessing opinions, beliefs, and knowledge. Results revealed a poor understanding of the role of the hospital chaplain in the UK. The authors therefore advocate education programs to increase awareness of the varied role of the hospital chaplain in fulfilling patient spiritual needs to increase referral practices, leading to improved patient outcomes.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

General Medicine

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/15423050221100158

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