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Chaplains Making a Difference at the End of Life: Implications of Outcomes Research in Adult Oncology
presented by Cate Beaulieu-Desjardins, MDiv MPH BCC and Rev. Beth Muehlhausen PhD MDiv BCC LCSW
Please Register by November 17, 2024
Registration
Individual Webinar Journal Club 13 sessions
$75 / computer terminal / member
$112 / computer terminal / non-member
Registration by the published deadline is required to ensure that participants receive handouts, login information and pre-reading materials in sufficient time before the webinar.
Audience
The series is designed to help chaplains with no prior experience learn to read and understand research. It will also introduce research-literate chaplains to important research about spiritual needs and chaplains’ activities in response to those needs.
Preparation
The articles selected for the series are made available, and participants are strongly encouraged to read them in preparation for each webinar.
Session 5
Chaplains Making a Difference at the End of Life: Implications of Outcomes Research in Adult Oncology
presented by Cate Michelle Desjardins MDiv MPh BCC and Rev. Beth Muehlhausen PhD MDiv BCC LCSW
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CST
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm MST
11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
10:00 am - 11:00 am AKST
8:00 am - 9:00 am HAST
60 minutes (1 CE hour plus reading/self-study hours - Methodology 8, Research)
This quantitative study explores the potential role of spiritual caregivers, as well as social workers and psychologists, in mediating aggressive end-of-life measures and increased time until death after final cancer treatment. The study also looks at whether spiritual caregivers and other psychosocial interventions impact enrollment in hospice care. This study comes out of a hospital in Israel and the results (n=180) show significant correlations with spiritual care visits and improved end-of-life oncology outcomes. Although researchers have done some preliminary studies in this area and have long speculated that spiritual care might impact end of life outcomes in oncology, this is one of the first comprehensive quantitative studies to look at these measures and conclude that, in each of the three outcomes studied, spiritual caregiver visits made a statistically significant difference, with specific topics discussed also making a difference. These results have important implications for chaplains working with oncology and other patients at the end of life, and demonstrate an important method for studying the outcomes of spiritual care.
Aims for reading this article through the Webinar Journal Club:
- Understand a method for looking at spiritual care outcomes and efficacy in adult oncology.
- Explore what specific topics spiritual caregivers discussed with oncology patients that may correlate to improved outcomes.
- Develop a beginning understanding of the use of statistical correlations in research relevant to chaplains.
Schultz M, Baziliansky S, Mitnik I, Ulitzur N, Illouz S, Katra D, Givoli S, Campisi-Pinto S, Bar-Sela G, Zalman D. Associations Between Psycho-Social-Spiritual Interventions, Fewer Aggressive End-of-Life Measures, and Increased Time After Final Oncologic Treatment. Oncologist. 2023 May 8;28(5):e287-e294. doi: 10.1093/oncolo/oyad037. PMID: 37036873; PMCID: PMC10166162.
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Cate Beaulieu-Desjardins, MDiv MPH BCC is the Assistant Director of Research Development for Transforming Chaplaincy, where she focuses primarily on research in pediatric spiritual care. Cate completed the Transforming Chaplaincy Research Fellowship in 2019 and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at KU Leuven in Belgium. She is co-editor for the forthcoming book “Case Studies in Pediatric Chaplaincy” (Pickwick, 2024). Cate concurrently serves as the Executive Director for the Mennonite Healthcare Fellowship and the Anabaptist Centre for Healthcare Ethics. Cate is endorsed and credentialed by Mennonite Church USA as one of the first openly LGBTQ+ persons granted ministry credentials in the denomination. |
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Rev. Beth Muehlhausen PhD MDiv BCC LCSW is the Spiritual Care Research Program Manager at Houston Methodist Hospital in Texas. She coordinates research related to spirituality, religion and spiritual care with the Houston Methodist Research Institute and interdisciplinary colleagues as well as research within the spiritual care department. She is also a researcher and instructor with Transforming Chaplaincy. She is a qualitative researcher utilizing hermeneutic phenomenology and mixed methods. She has published several articles on spirituality, chaplaincy, and spiritual care during the pandemic. She has presented several workshops and intensives at the annual APC conference, for NACC and the North American Association of Christians in Social Work. |
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