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Current ResearchIn Chaplaincy
Care
The Rev. George Handzo, BCC, CSSBBVice President, Pastoral Care Leadership & Practice
Dr. Jackson Kytle, Ph.D.Vice President, Academic Affairs
HealthCare Chaplaincy, New York, NY 10022-1505www.healthcarechaplaincy.org
HealthCare Chaplaincy’s mission is to advance the profession of pastoral care through visionary leadership and continuing excellence in innovative research, education, and clinical service.
Outcomes for our Webinar
Review a handful of current studies of interest to chaplains
Increase sensitivity to the challenges of doing quality research in our area
Improve ability to use research strategically in advocating for chaplaincy
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Question for Consideration
What is the recent research on chaplaincy care showing?
How does one read this research critically?
What does the research suggest about chaplaincy care?
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Coping With Cancer Study
Balboni, T. A., et al. (2007). Religiousness and Spiritual Support Among Advanced Cancer Patients and Associations with End-of-Life Treatment Preferences and Quality of Life. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 25(5), 555-560.
Phelps, A. C., et al. (2009). Religious Coping and Use of Intensive Life-Prolonging Care Near Death in Patients with Advanced Cancer. JAMA, 301(11), 1140-1147.
Balboni, T. A., et al. (Published ahead of print on December 14, 2009). Provision of Spiritual Care to Patients with Advanced Cancer: Associations With Medical Care and Quality of Life Near Death. Journal of Clinical Oncology.
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Research Methods
Multi-institutional, multi-method investigation of advanced cancer patients and their caregivers
Sample= 5 centers Sample size= 350-650
Goal: Establish database for multiple uses to allow for “mining” in various veins and directions
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Religiousness and Spiritual Support
88% said religion was at least somewhat important
72% said their spiritual needs were minimally or not at all supported by the medical system
47% said their spiritual needs were minimally or not at all supported by a religious community
Spiritual support was highly associated with quality of life, QoL (P=.0003)
But no specific mention of chaplaincy….
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Religious Coping and Use of Life-Prolonging Care
A high level of positive religious coping was correlated with intensive interventions like use of mechanical ventilation
Sample data dominated by one center in Dallas
Difference in groups statistically significant, but all numbers low
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Impact of Spiritual Care on Medical Care and QoL
Meeting spiritual needs associated with more hospice care & less aggressive treatment
Spiritual support associated with higher QoL scores near death
Pastoral visits were associated with higher QoL scores, but not more hospice care or less aggressive treatment
Why? What was the pastoral intervention?
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Spiritual Care/Palliative Care and Patient/Family Satisfaction
Astrow, A. B., et al. (2007). Is Failure to Meet Spiritual Needs Associated with Cancer Patients’ Perceptions of Quality of Care and their Satisfaction with Care? Journal of Clinical Oncology, 25(26), 5753-5757.
Daaleman, T. P., et al. (2008). Spiritual Care at the End of Life in Long Term Care. Medical Care, 46(1), 85-91.
Puchalski, C. M., et al. (2009). Improving the Quality of Spiritual Care as a Dimension of Palliative Care. Journal of Palliative Medicine, 12(10), 885-904.
Morrison, S., et al. (2008). Cost Savings Associated with US Hospital Palliative Care Consultation Programs. Arch Intern Med ,168(16), 1783-1790.
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Spiritual Needs/Pat Sat/QoL
Sample from one Catholic hospital in NYC
“Do you feel your spiritual needs are being met?”
Meeting spiritual needs associated with higher QoL and higher satisfaction with care
Sample bias from using one institution?
What does this mean?
Validity of using simple questions?
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Spiritual Care in Long-Term Care
After death interview of family members of decedents in 100 LTC facilities
87% received assistance with spiritual needs
Families of those who received spiritual care rated overall care higher
Facilitating devotional practice was salient
Ministry of staff was more salient than ministry of clergy
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Spiritual Care in Palliative Care
Multidisciplinary consensus panel is also a level of evidence
Puts other disciplines in position of advocating for chaplaincy
Provides theoretical models that can be tested
Spiritual care is required
Board-certified chaplain is the spiritual care leader on the team
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Cost Savings in Palliative Care
Example of a study of strategic importance
First study that demonstrates that palliative care reduces costs in significant amounts
Coupled with consensus panel findings, this study positions chaplains to help reduce medical costs while improving patient/family satisfaction!
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Chaplain Researchers
Iler, W. L., Overshain, D., Camac, M. (2001). The Impact of Daily Visits from Chaplains on Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): A Pilot Study. Chaplaincy Today,17(1), 5-11.
Fitchett, G., Risk, J. L. (2009). Screening for Spiritual Struggle. Journal of Pastoral Care and Counseling, 62(1,2), 1-12.
Fitchett, G., et al. (2009). Physicians’ Experience and Satisfaction with Chaplains: A National Survey. Arch Intern Med, 169(19), 1808-1810.
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Impact of Daily Chaplain Visits
Only controlled study of outcomes of chaplain visits
Those visited were less anxious, had shorter stays, and were more likely to recommend the hospital
Used a population where physical symptoms are related to anxiety
Chaplain/investigator was a solo chaplain without any previous research experience
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Screening for Spiritual Struggle
Study piloted a screening tool that can isolate patients with spiritual struggle
Established baseline for incidence of spiritual struggle--7%
Validated a screening tool that reliably identifies patients suffering spiritual struggle
Assumes a model of chaplaincy care based on referrals for patients in need
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Physician Experience & Satisfaction With Chaplains
Piggy backed on a previous survey
Since this use was not anticipated, some questions could not be answered
Doctors were much more experienced with, and satisfied with, chaplains than in some previous studies
What has changed?Attitude and training of doctors?Integration and training of chaplains?
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The Need for New Theory & Models
Flannelly, K. J., Koenig, H. G., Galek, K., & Ellison, C. G. (2007). Beliefs, Mental Health, and Evolutionary Threat Assessment Systems in the Brain. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 195(12), 996-1003.
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Journals to Watch
Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling
Journal of Healthcare Chaplaincy
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
Palliative and Supportive Care
Journal of Palliative Medicine
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Ten Notes of Caution….
When it comes to assessing important effects, empirical evidence is probably better than armchair speculation but hardly foolproof. Oh-so-many threats to validity on a long path to truth claims….
Being able to demonstrate empirical outcomes of chaplain interventions is essential to advance the profession’s standing.
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Ten Notes of Caution
Not simple to measure chaplain interventions and outcomes because of:• subtlety of the phenomena, • reactivity of most measures of human behavior, • shortness of many patient visits, and • too few patients receive more than one visit.
Chaplaincy research must be advanced by new theory about the most important effects and how they are best measured.
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Ten Notes of Caution
Good idea to integrate quantitative and qualitative research on the same question—even better to extend the research design to diverse samples and cultures. • We need good studies not just of patient outcomes but outcomes for family interventions and staff impact, which might be qualitative studies.
Quality of sample drawn for a population and research design are both more important criteria for good research than elegant statistics.
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Ten Notes of Cautions
The gold standard for truth claims is a prospective, true experimental design—alas, we have few of these in chaplaincy studies.
Beware the great challenge of placebo effects based on patient or subject expectations as this variable confounds our best research designs—we humans are pattern-seeking, meaning-making creatures….
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Ten Notes of Caution
Beware drawing causal inferences from cross-sectional data like surveys—and most of what we have are survey data!
Beware enthusiastic claims “for and agin” by researchers from both ends of the R/S spectrum, believers to skeptics. This arena is an emotional one for players!
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The Presenters
Dr. Kytle, whose Ph.D. is in Social Psychology, has held academic leadership positions at higher educational institutions including Antioch University, Goddard College, Norwich University, and most recently, The New School in New York City. The author of scholarly books and articles on non-traditional education and adult learning, Dr. Kytle is the principal architect of HealthCare Chaplaincy’s education and research programs. He is a Commissioner for the Middle States Association.
The Rev. George Handzo has been part of HealthCare Chaplaincy for over three decades, first as a chaplain at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and later as a senior member of Chaplaincy’s management team. Rev. Handzo heads HealthCare Chaplaincy's entire clinical program and its Consulting Service, which offers a full range of options to help medical institutions across the country build or expand existing multifaith chaplaincy care departments. He is a board-certified chaplain and a certified six sigma black belt.
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Questions
The Rev. George [email protected]
Dr. Jackson Kytle, Ph.D. [email protected]
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