A Preliminary Proposal for a Scale to Measure the Effectiveness of Pastoral Care with Family Members of Hospitalized Patients
The authors conducted an electronic search of the Medline database for articles measuring family satisfaction. Content analysis was then performed on the relevant studies to determine the types of themes included in scales measuring family satisfaction in healthcare settings. The authors used these...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publishing
2007
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Journal of pastoral care & counseling
Year: 2007, Volume: 61, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 19-29 |
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| Summary: | The authors conducted an electronic search of the Medline database for articles measuring family satisfaction. Content analysis was then performed on the relevant studies to determine the types of themes included in scales measuring family satisfaction in healthcare settings. The authors used these themes to develop a scale for measuring the effectiveness of pastoral care with family members. A convenience sample of chaplains that was asked to judge the usefulness of each of the scale items, rated them all, on average, to be “somewhat useful” to “very useful” for evaluating chaplains' effectiveness. The value of the scale is discussed in terms of its being a more outcome-oriented measure of effectiveness compared to typical family satisfaction instruments. |
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| ISSN: | 2167-776X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of pastoral care & counseling
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/154230500706100103 |