Patient Reported Outcome Measure of Spiritual Care as Delivered by Chaplains

Snowden, Austyn; Telfer, Iain

Abstract

Chaplains are employed by health organizations around the world to support patients in recognizing and addressing their spiritual needs. There is currently no generalizable measure of the impact of these interventions and so the clinical and strategic worth of chaplaincy is difficult to articulate. This paper introduces the Scottish PROM, an original five-item patient reported outcome measure constructed specifically to address this gap. It describes the validation process from its conceptual grounding in the spiritual care literature through face and content validity cycles. It shows that the Scottish PROM is internally consistent and unidimensional. Responses to the Scottish PROM show strong convergent validity with responses to the Warwick and Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale, a generic well-being scale often used as a proxy for spiritual well-being. In summary, the Scottish PROM is fit for purpose. It measures the outcomes of spiritual care as delivered by chaplains in this study. This novel project introduces an essential and original breakthrough; the possibility of generalizable international chaplaincy research.

Citation

Snowden, A., & Telfer, I. (2017). Patient Reported Outcome Measure of Spiritual Care as Delivered by Chaplains. Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy, 23(4), 131-155. https://doi.org/10.1080/08854726.2017.1279935

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Dec 28, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Feb 16, 2017
• Publication Date: Oct 2, 2017
• Deposit Date: Jan 17, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 17, 2018
• Journal: Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy
• Print ISSN: 0885-4726
• Electronic ISSN: 1528-6916
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 131-155
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08854726.2017.1279935
• Keywords: PROM, chaplaincy, spiritual care,
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/464018
• Contract Date: Jan 17, 2017