Improving Spiritual Care in Hospitals in the Netherlands:What Do Health Care Chaplains Involved in an Action-Research Study Report?

Health care chaplains participated in a multicenter trial to explore an implementation strategy for the Dutch multidisciplinary guideline for spiritual care. The intervention was concise spiritual care training for hospital staff of departments where patients in curative and palliative trajectories are treated. Data were collected in semistructured interviews with chaplains who acted as trainers, before and after the intervention. Results based on nine preintervention and eleven post-intervention interviews are presented. During preintervention interviews, chaplains describe the baseline situa... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Van De Geer, Joep
Visser, Anja
Zock, Hetty
Leget, Carlo
Prins, Jelle
Vissers, Kris
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
Reihe/Periodikum: Van De Geer , J , Visser , A , Zock , H , Leget , C , Prins , J & Vissers , K 2018 , ' Improving Spiritual Care in Hospitals in the Netherlands : What Do Health Care Chaplains Involved in an Action-Research Study Report? ' , Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy , vol. 24 , no. 4 , pp. 151-173 . https://doi.org/10.1080/08854726.2017.1393039
Schlagwörter: Chaplaincy / education / multidisciplinary team / palliative care / spiritual care / CANCER
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29191364
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Health care chaplains participated in a multicenter trial to explore an implementation strategy for the Dutch multidisciplinary guideline for spiritual care. The intervention was concise spiritual care training for hospital staff of departments where patients in curative and palliative trajectories are treated. Data were collected in semistructured interviews with chaplains who acted as trainers, before and after the intervention. Results based on nine preintervention and eleven post-intervention interviews are presented. During preintervention interviews, chaplains describe the baseline situation of palliative care in Dutch hospitals, barriers, and opportunities for improving spiritual care. In the postintervention interviews, characteristics of the training, effects, and critical success factors were identified. Positive effects such as lowering barriers, increasing health care professionals' competences, and increasing health care chaplains' profile are possible. Chaplain-led, multidisciplinary spiritual care training is a feasible method to start implementation of spiritual care in hospitals, as described in the multidisciplinary guideline.