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LeBaron: Clergy Views on a Good Versus a Poor Death: Ministry to the Terminally Ill

December 23, 2015

Clergy are often important sources of guidance for patients and family members making medical decisions at the end-of-life (EOL). Previous research revealed spiritual support by religious communities led to more aggressive care at the EOL, particularly...

Balboni T.: Religion, Spirituality, and the Intensive Care Unit: The Sound of Silence

December 23, 2015

Visualize for a moment the philosophical quandary of a tree falling in the uninhabited forest and whether it makes a sound—the dying tree, its surroundings of fellow trees, foliage, and earth— with no person to hear its fall. This visualization hardly...

Bandini: Student and Faculty Reflections of the Hidden Curriculum: How Does the Hidden Curriculum Shape Students' Medical Training and Professionalization?

December 23, 2015

The hidden curriculum, or the socialization process of medical training, plays a crucial role in the development of physicians, as they navigate the clinical learning environment. The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine medical faculty and...

Balboni: Religion, Spirituality, and the Hidden Curriculum: Medical Student and Faculty Reflections

June 01, 2015

CONTEXT:Religion and spirituality play an important role in physicians' medical practice, but little research has examined their influence within the socialization of medical trainees and the hidden curriculum. OBJECTIVES:To explore the role of religion...

Zollfrank: Teaching Health Care Providers to Provide Spiritual Care - a pilot study

April 16, 2015

Authors: A.Zollfrank, K.M. Trevino, W.Cadge, M.J.Balboni, M. Thiel, G.Fitchett, K.GAllivan, T.VanderWeele, T.A.Balboni Background : Health care providers’ lack of education on spiritual care is a significant barrier to the integration of spiritual care...

Rodin: Whose role? Oncology practitioners' perceptions of their role in providing spiritual care to advanced cancer patients.

March 27, 2015

The purpose of this study is to determine how oncology nurses and physicians view their role in providing spiritual care (SC), factors influencing this perception, and how this belief affects SC provision.This is a survey-based, multisite study conducted...

Balboni: Nurse and Physician Barriers to Spiritual Care Provision at the End of Life

September 09, 2014

CONTEXT: Spiritual care (SC) from medical practitioners is infrequent at the end of life (EOL) despite national standards. OBJECTIVES: The study aimed to describe nurses' and physicians' desire to provide SC to terminally ill patients and assess 11...

Epstein-Peterson: Examining Forms of Spiritual Care Provided in the Advanced Cancer Setting

September 09, 2014

Spiritual care (SC) is important to the care of seriously ill patients. Few studies have examined types of SC provided and their perceived impact. This study surveyed patients with advanced cancer (N = 75, response rate [RR] = 73%) and oncology nurses and...

Peteet: The Relationship between Medicine, Spirituality and Religion: Three Models for Integration

September 09, 2014

The integration of medicine and religion is challenging for historical, ethical, practical and conceptual reasons. In order to make more explicit the bases and goals of relating spirituality and medicine, we distinguish here three complementary...

Trevino: Negative Religious Coping and Suicidal Ideation in Advanced Illness

May 13, 2014

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between negative religious coping (NRC) and suicidal ideation in patients with advanced cancer, controlling for demographic and disease characteristics and risk and protective factors for...

Peteet: What is the Place of Clinicians' Spiritual Commitments in Psychotherapy?

April 18, 2014

Value neutrality in psychotherapy is widely acknowledged to be a myth, and a majority of US physicians report that their religious faith influences their practice. Most attention to therapists' religious and spiritual commitments has focused on ethical...

Rosmarin: Religious Coping Among Psychotic Patients: relevance to suicidality and treatment outcomes

April 18, 2014

Religious coping is very common among individuals with psychosis, however its relevance to symptoms and treatment outcomes remains unclear. We conducted a prospective study in a clinical sample of n=47 psychiatric patients with current/past psychosis...