Chaplains' reports of integration in community health initiatives: a qualitative study.

Health care and religious organizations have a long history with one another. Chaplains' investments in the health and wellbeing of their local communities have extended beyond the hospital walls for longer than many chaplains may recognize. However, the published evidence suggests these efforts have been limited.

Provision of chaplaincy services in U.S. hospitals: A strategic conformity perspective.

Background: Increasingly, hospitals are expected to provide patient-centered care that attends to patients' health needs, including spiritual care needs. Chaplaincy services help to meet patients' spiritual care needs, which have been shown to have a positive impact on health outcomes. Variation in the provision of chaplaincy services suggests hospitals do not uniformly conform to the expectation of making chaplaincy services available.

Supporting staff: The role of health care chaplains.

The aim of this study was to describe the range of spiritual care activities in support of clinical colleagues at a subset of U.S. hospitals.

Improving Professional Spiritual Care to Persons With Limited English Proficiency: The Cross-Language Chaplaincy Introduction Guidebook.

Hospitalized individuals in the United States with limited English proficiency (LEP) may experience complications when receiving hospital care. Grounded in the ethical principles of chaplaincy and motivated by the desire to address inequitable health service provision, we developed the . The introduces chaplaincy in 20 different languages with the goal of improving chaplain accessibility.

A social network analysis of interorganisational collaboration: Efforts to improve social connectedness.

The Covid-19 pandemic has challenged public health practitioners and clinicians at multiple levels to intentionally consider the impact of social isolation on health outcomes. Many community-based programmes design interventions to address tangible challenges within the social determinants of health, such as asset insecurity or food insecurity, to address health inequities. The growing need to address social isolation within marginalised communities also requires organisations to collaborate and create community partnerships that strengthen their own social integration within the community.

Chaplain staffing and scope of service: benchmarking spiritual care departments.

The functions of hospital chaplains and the corresponding staffing of spiritual care departments remain persistent and parallel questions within the profession. No consensus exists on services provided by spiritual care departments nor the staffing patterns to meet those expectations. This study describes the key activities and staffing at the 20  as well as the connections between services, staffing, and select hospital characteristics such as average daily census.

Community-Based Asset Security: A Scoping Review.

Objectives: To explore how and what programs or projects address asset security at the community level as a social determinant of health.

Data Sources: To conduct a scoping review following Preferred Reporting Items for Systemic Reviews and Meta-analyses guidelines, the databases searched included CINAHL, EconLit, Embase, Pubmed/Medline, and the Sociological Collection of EBSCOhost.

Review Methods: Keywords used for article identification were ("asset" AND "community") OR ("asset security" AND "community").

Prevalence of unmasked and improperly masked behavior in indoor public areas during the COVID-19 pandemic: Analysis of a stratified random sample from Louisville, Kentucky.

Wearing a facial mask can limit COVID-19 transmission. Measurements of communities' mask use behavior have mostly relied on self-report. This study's objective was to devise a method to measure the prevalence of improper mask use and no mask use in indoor public areas without relying on self-report.

The Influence of Patient and Provider Religious and Spiritual Beliefs on Treatment Decision Making in the Cancer Care Context.

Background: Providers often underestimate the influence of patient religious and spiritual (R&S) needs. The current study sought to determine the influence of R&S beliefs on treatment decision making among patients and providers in the context of cancer care.

Methods: We conducted a systematic review of the literature using web-based search engines and discipline-specific databases.

Board certification of professional chaplains: a qualitative study of stakeholder perspectives.

Many professional chaplaincy organizations in the United States have board certified healthcare chaplains since the 1920s and documented how they have adapted their process as the profession has grown. In 2019, the Association of Professional Chaplains and the National Association of Catholic Chaplains sought the perspectives of key stakeholders about professional chaplaincy board certification. This study reports the results from 50 semi-structured interviews with certification candidates, certification committee members, and chaplaincy managers in the United States.

Weather and COVID-19 Deaths During the Stay-at-Home Order in the United States.

Objective: To estimate the association between weather and COVID-19 fatality rates during US stay-at-home orders.

Methods: With a county-level longitudinal design, this study analyzed COVID-19 deaths from public health departments' daily reports and considered exposure as the 18 to 22 day-period before death. Models included state-level social distancing measures, Census Bureau demographics, daily weather information, and daily air pollution.

Mapping the healthcare chaplaincy workforce: a baseline description.

Changing U.S. demographics and the growing emphasis on diversity in the healthcare workforce requires professional healthcare chaplains to examine the characteristics of its own workforce.

Distress and self-care among chaplains working in palliative care.

Background: The prevalence of burnout and distress among palliative care professionals has received much attention since research suggests it negatively impacts the quality of care. Although limited, research suggests low levels of burnout or distress among healthcare chaplains; however, there has been no research among chaplains working in specific clinical contexts, including palliative care.

Objective: This study explored the distress, self-care, and debriefing practices of chaplains working in palliative care.