Fitchett George, Nieuwsma Jason A, Bates Mark J, Rhodes Jeffrey E, Meador Keith G
a Department of Religion, Health, and Human Values , Rush University Medical Center , Chicago , Illinois , USA.
J Health Care Chaplain. 2014;20(4):144-60. doi: 10.1080/08854726.2014.949163.
Leaders in health care chaplaincy and practice guidelines, such as the Association of Professional Chaplains' Standards of Practice, call for chaplains to develop an evidence-based approach to their work. The extent to which practicing chaplains accept this new paradigm is unclear. The aim of this study was to gather information regarding chaplains' attitudes and practices with respect to evidence-based chaplaincy care. Data for the study came from surveys of healthcare chaplains working in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA, n = 440), the Department of Defense (DoD, n = 164), and civilian settings (n = 169). Chaplains from all three contexts strongly endorsed an evidence-based approach to chaplaincy. Approximately three-fourths of the healthcare chaplains from VA and DoD and 42% of those from civilian settings considered their current chaplaincy practices to be evidenced based, with over half in VA and DoD samples and 94% in the civilian sample indicating that they would like their chaplaincy care to be more evidence-based. Approximately half of the VA and DoD chaplains and 35% of the civilian chaplains reported currently using measurement tools in their chaplaincy care. These results suggest that there is generally strong support among practicing chaplains for an evidence-based approach to chaplaincy care.
医疗保健牧师领域的领导者和实践指南，如专业牧师协会的《实践标准》，呼吁牧师为其工作制定基于证据的方法。执业牧师接受这一新范式的程度尚不清楚。本研究的目的是收集有关牧师对循证牧师关怀的态度和实践的信息。该研究的数据来自对在退伍军人事务部（VA，n = 440）、国防部（DoD，n = 164）和民用机构（n = 169）工作的医疗保健牧师的调查。来自所有这三种环境的牧师都强烈支持循证牧师关怀方法。退伍军人事务部和国防部约四分之三的医疗保健牧师以及民用机构42%的牧师认为他们目前的牧师实践是基于证据的，退伍军人事务部和国防部样本中超过一半以及民用样本中94%的牧师表示他们希望自己的牧师关怀更基于证据。约一半的退伍军人事务部和国防部牧师以及35%的民用机构牧师报告目前在其牧师关怀中使用测量工具。这些结果表明，执业牧师普遍强烈支持循证牧师关怀方法。
