Clergy

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "The Patient Is Dying, Please Call the Chaplain": The Activities of Chaplains in One Medical Center's Intensive Care Units. 
  • "We Hide Under the Scriptures": Conceptualization of Health Among United Methodist Church Clergy in Kenya. 
  • A 2-Year Holistic Health and Stress Intervention: Results of an RCT in Clergy. 
  • A Descriptive Study of Chaplains' Code Blue Responses. 
  • A Qualitative Examination of VA Chaplains' Understandings and Interventions Related to Moral Injury in Military Veterans. 
  • A review of research on chaplains and community-based clergy in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Lancet, and the New England Journal of Medicine: 1998-2000. 
  • A theoretical model of the holistic health of United Methodist clergy. 
  • A tribute to Andrew J. Weaver. 
  • Are changes in positive mental health associated with increased likelihood of depression over a two year period? A test of the mental health promotion and protection hypotheses. 
  • Attitudes and behaviors that differentiate clergy with positive mental health from those with burnout 
  • Back to the future: The AMA and religion, 1961-1974. 
  • Behavioral determinants of mental illness concerns: a comparison of "gatekeeper" professions. 
  • Chaplain Training in Evidence-Based Practices to Promote Mental Health and Improve Care for Suicidality in Veterans and Service Members. 
  • Chaplaincy, Clergy, Prayer, Cancer and Measuring Religion and Health. 
  • Chaplains on the Medical Team: A Qualitative Analysis of an Interprofessional Curriculum for Internal Medicine Residents and Chaplain Interns. 
  • Chaplains' Engagement with Suicidality among Their Service Users: Findings from the VA/DoD Integrated Mental Health Strategy. 
  • Clergy-laity support and patients' mood during serious illness: a cross-sectional epidemiologic study. 
  • Closeness to God among those doing God's work: a spiritual well-being measure for clergy. 
  • Collaborating across the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Defense to integrate mental health and chaplaincy services. 
  • Collaborative spiritual care for moral injury in the veterans Affairs Healthcare System (VA): Results from a national survey of VA chaplains. 
  • Congregational health ministries: a national study of pastors' views. 
  • Coordinating assessment of spiritual needs: a cross-walk of narrative and psychometric assessment tools used in palliative care. 
  • Demystifying Spiritual Care: An Interprofessional Approach for Teaching Residents and Hospital Chaplains to Work Together. 
  • Disentangling Race and Socioeconomic Status in HealthDisparities Research: an Examination of Black and White Clergy. 
  • Documenting presence: A descriptive study of chaplain notes in the intensive care unit. 
  • Elderly suicide, mental health professionals, and the clergy: a need for clinical collaboration, training, and research. 
  • Evidence-based chaplaincy care: attitudes and practices in diverse healthcare chaplain samples. 
  • Explaining rural/non-rural disparities in physical health-related quality of life: a study of United Methodist clergy in North Carolina. 
  • God at the bedside. 
  • High rates of obesity and chronic disease among United Methodist clergy. 
  • Implementing Integrated Mental Health and Chaplain Care in a National Quality Improvement Initiative. 
  • In reply to Cayley. 
  • Intensive Care Clinicians' Views on the Role of Chaplains. 
  • Introduction to the special issue "Moral injury care: Practices and collaboration". 
  • Marriage and family therapists and the clergy: a need for clinical collaboration, training, and research. 
  • Measurement of materialism and spiritualism in substance abuse research. 
  • Mental health issues among clergy and other religious professionals: a review of research. 
  • Moral Injury, Australian Veterans and the Role of Chaplains: An Exploratory Qualitative Study. 
  • Moral Injury, Betrayal and Retribution: Australian Veterans and the Role of Chaplains. 
  • Moral Injury: An Increasingly Recognized and Widespread Syndrome. 
  • No wrong door to smoking cessation care: a Veterans Affairs Chaplain survey. 
  • Nurses and healthcare chaplains: natural allies. 
  • Operationalizing the Measuring What Matters Spirituality Quality Metric in a Population of Hospitalized, Critically Ill Patients and Their Family Members. 
  • Patients', Staff, and Providers' Factual Knowledge About Hospital Chaplains and Association with Desire for Chaplain Services. 
  • Persistent Depressive Symptoms in a Population With High Levels of Occupational Stress: Trajectories Offer Insights Into Both Chronicity and Resilience. 
  • Physical health functioning among United Methodist clergy. 
  • Physicians' Opinions on Engaging Patients' Religious and Spiritual Concerns: A National Survey. 
  • Professional Quality of Life and Changes in Spirituality Among VHA Chaplains: A Mixed Methods Investigation. 
  • Prospective Associations Between Depressive Symptoms and the Metabolic Syndrome: the Spirited Life Study of Methodist Pastors in North Carolina. 
  • Psychotropic medication claims among religious clergy. 
  • Religion, spirituality and health: an American physician's response. 
  • Seminary Students and Physical Health: Beliefs, Behaviors, and Barriers. 
  • The Clergy Occupational Distress Index (CODI): background and findings from two samples of clergy. 
  • The Effect of a Priest-Led Intervention on the Choice and Preference of Soda Beverages: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial in Catholic Parishes. 
  • The Gap in Mental Health Service Utilization Among United Methodist Clergy with Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms. 
  • The Selah study protocol of three interventions to manage stress among clergy: a preference-based randomized waitlist control trial. 
  • The Stressors of Clergy Children Inventory: reliability and validity. 
  • The couch and the cloth: the need for linkage. 
  • The feasibility and acceptability of a chaplain-led intervention for caregivers of seriously ill patients: A Caregiver Outlook pilot study. 
  • The life of leaders: an intensive health program for clergy. 
  • Theodicies and professional quality of life in a nationally representative sample of chaplains in the veterans' health administration. 
  • Transcending differences to study the transcendent: an exploratory study of researchers' and chaplains' reflections on interdisciplinary spiritual care research collaboration. 
  • Treatment of Moral Injury in U.S. Veterans with PTSD Using a Structured Chaplain Intervention. 
  • Use of a randomized multiple baseline design: rationale and design of the spirited life holistic health intervention study. 
  • Using effort-reward imbalance theory to understand high rates of depression and anxiety among clergy. 
  • Utilization of hospital-based chaplain services among newly diagnosed male Veterans Affairs colorectal cancer patients. 
  • What Should Physicians and Chaplains Do When a Patient Believes God Wants Him to Suffer? 
  • Why research is important for chaplains. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Jones, L. Gregory, Ruth W. and A. Morris Williams, Jr. Distinguished Professor of the Practice Emeritus of Christian Ministry in the Divinity School, Divinity School
  • Nieuwsma, Jason A, Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Behavioral Medicine & Neurosciences
  • Zullig, Leah L, Professor in Population Health Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine