Grossoehme Daniel H, Cotton Sian, Ragsdale Judy, Quittner Alexandra L, McPhail Gary, Seid Michael
Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, and Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229, USA.
J Health Care Chaplain. 2013;19(2):66-78. doi: 10.1080/08854726.2013.779540.
A limited number of studies address parental faith and its relationship to their children's health. Using cystic fibrosis as a disease exemplar in which religion/spirituality have been shown to play a role and parental health behaviors (adherence to their child's daily recommended home treatments) are important, this study explored whether parents with different levels of adherence would describe use of faith differently. Twenty-five interviews were completed and analyzed using grounded theory methodology. Some parents described no relationship between faith and treatment adherence. However, of those who did, higher-adherence parents believed God empowered them to care for their child and they used prayer to change themselves, while lower-adherence parents described trusting God to care for their child and used prayer to change God. Clinical implications for chaplains' differential engagement with parents are presented.
仅有少数研究探讨了父母的宗教信仰及其与子女健康的关系。本研究以囊性纤维化为例(在该疾病中宗教/灵性已被证明发挥作用,且父母的健康行为——坚持孩子每日推荐的家庭治疗——很重要),探究了不同坚持程度的父母在描述宗教信仰的运用上是否存在差异。研究完成了25次访谈,并运用扎根理论方法进行分析。一些父母表示宗教信仰与治疗坚持之间没有关系。然而,在那些认为有关系的父母中,坚持程度较高的父母相信上帝赋予他们照顾孩子的能力,他们通过祈祷来改变自己,而坚持程度较低的父母则表示相信上帝会照顾他们的孩子,并通过祈祷来改变上帝。文中还阐述了对牧师与父母进行差异化互动的临床意义。