Pentaris, Panagiotis and Tripathi, Khyati. 2020. Religious/spiritual referrals in hospice and palliative care. Religions, 11(10), 496. ISSN 2077-1444 [Article]

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This study examines the religious/spiritual referral patterns in hospice and palliative care. Religion and death are two highly intersected topics and albeit often discussed together in hospice and palliative care, little is known about how professionals respond to religious/spiritual needs of patients/families/friends and in relation to the chaplaincy team. By means of an in-depth interviewing method, this paper reports on data from 15 hospice and palliative care professionals. Participants were recruited from across five hospice and palliative care organisations, and the data was managed and analysed with the use of NVivo. Largely, participants were keen to refer patients/families/friends to the chaplaincy team, unless the former?s faith or lack thereof did not match the chaplains, in which case referrals to a religious leader in the community were favoured. This shed light to the tendencies to homogenise religious/spiritual beliefs. The paper concludes with some implications for practice and research.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.3390/rel11100496
Additional Information:	© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords:	religion; spirituality; hospice care; palliative care; spiritual care
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Social, Therapeutic & Community Engagement (STaCS) Social, Therapeutic & Community Engagement (STaCS) > Faiths and Civil Society Social, Therapeutic & Community Engagement (STaCS) > Social Work Social, Therapeutic & Community Engagement (STaCS) > Thanatology Research Lab
Dates:	Date Event 27 September 2020 Accepted 29 September 2020 Published
Item ID:	32276
Date Deposited:	10 Oct 2022 09:44
Last Modified:	10 Jul 2024 09:54
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/32276

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