Damen Annelieke, Delaney Allison, Fitchett George
a University of Humanistic Studies , Utrecht , The Netherlands.
b Virginia Commonwealth University , Richmond , Virginia.
J Health Care Chaplain. 2018 Apr-Jun;24(2):57-66. doi: 10.1080/08854726.2017.1399597. Epub 2017 Dec 4.
Chaplains in the United States and around the world appear to support an evidence-based practice approach to chaplaincy. While there continues to be strong growth in spiritual care research, several spiritual care researchers have stressed the need for a research agenda for chaplaincy. This study investigated the research priorities of chaplains who completed a survey distributed at four chaplaincy conferences in 2016. A total of 193 chaplains responded, resulting in 499 comments. When compared to the findings of existing literature regarding research priorities for chaplaincy, chaplain's views of research priorities appear to be very consistent with views of chaplaincy leaders. Both prioritize research on outcomes of spiritual care, the development and testing of the effectiveness of interventions, the development and evaluation of assessment and screening tools and research about key subgroups of patients. The chaplains in the survey however added to the agenda research regarding competencies, education, and certification and research regarding the chaplain and the team.
美国及世界各地的牧师似乎都支持基于证据的牧师实践方法。虽然精神关怀研究仍在强劲增长，但一些精神关怀研究人员强调需要制定牧师研究议程。本研究调查了2016年在四次牧师会议上完成调查问卷的牧师的研究重点。共有193名牧师回复，得到了499条评论。与现有文献中关于牧师研究重点的研究结果相比，牧师对研究重点的看法似乎与牧师领袖的观点非常一致。双方都将精神关怀结果的研究、干预措施有效性的开发和测试、评估和筛查工具的开发和评估以及关于关键患者亚组的研究列为优先事项。然而，参与调查的牧师在议程中增加了关于能力、教育和认证的研究，以及关于牧师和团队的研究。
