scholarly journals Scared but Powerful: Healthcare Chaplains’ Emotional Responses and Self-Care Modes during the SARS-Cov-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 75 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 30-36
Author(s):  
Cate Michelle Desjardins ◽  
Anna Bovo ◽  
Mario Cagna ◽  
Martijn Steegen ◽  
Anne Vandenhoeck
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Free Text ◽  
International Survey

Drawing from both the qualitative free-text responses and quantitative responses to an international survey of 1657 chaplains serving during the SARS-Cov-19 pandemic, we explore chaplains' emotional responses to the pandemic and how emotion connects to self-care. This paper reports on the modes of self-care practiced by chaplains, including modes reported as unavailable due to pandemic restrictions. Lastly, we explore how effective spiritual care leadership may mediate chaplain emotions and ultimately chaplain self-care.

scholarly journals Spiritual Care as Part of an Interprofessional Model for Debriefing on an Oncology Unit

2021 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 158-162
Author(s):  
Kalli (Kalliopi) Stilos ◽  
Bill Ford ◽  
Anita Chakraborty ◽  
Danielle Takahashi
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Moral Distress ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Adverse Outcomes ◽  
Team Development ◽  
Dying Patients ◽  
Oncology Unit ◽  
Seriously Ill

Health care clinicians who care for seriously ill and dying patients have been known to be at higher risk for burnout and moral distress. When not well supported in their workplace, clinicians may suffer additional adverse outcomes to their overall wellbeing. Self-care is one way to help mitigate these adverse outcomes. The literature has described formalized debriefing not only as a self-care strategy but an intervention to promote healthy team development. The focus of this paper will showcase how social work and spiritual care practitioners in our institution worked collaboratively to support an inpatient oncology unit to address issues related to burnout by providing staff with monthly debriefing sessions intended to enhance self-care and wellness in the workplace.

scholarly journals The Role of Music in Everyday Life During the First Wave of the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Mixed-Methods Exploratory Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Carlson ◽  
Johanna Wilson ◽  
Margarida Baltazar ◽  
Deniz Duman ◽  
Henna-Riikka Peltola ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Free Text ◽  
Music Listening ◽  
Musical Engagement ◽  
Listening Behaviors

Although music is known to be a part of everyday life and a resource for mood and emotion management, everyday life has changed significantly for many due to the global coronavirus pandemic, making the role of music in everyday life less certain. An online survey in which participants responded to Likert scale questions as well as providing free text responses was used to explore how participants were engaging with music during the first wave of the pandemic, whether and how they were using music for mood regulation, and how their engagement with music related to their experiences of worry and anxiety resulting from the pandemic. Results indicated that, for the majority of participants, while many felt their use of music had changed since the beginning of the pandemic, the amount of their music listening behaviors were either unaffected by the pandemic or increased. This was especially true of listening to self-selected music and watching live streamed concerts. Analysis revealed correlations between participants’ use of mood for music regulation, their musical engagement, and their levels of anxiety and worry. A small number of participants described having negative emotional responses to music, the majority of whom also reported severe levels of anxiety.

scholarly journals Following Snowden: an international survey

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 336-343
Author(s):  
Andrew A. Adams ◽  
Kiyoshi Murata ◽  
Ana María Lara Palma
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Likert Scale ◽  
The Other ◽  
Free Text ◽  
International Survey ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Content Type

Purpose This paper aims to present the baseline English survey used in the other papers in this special issue. Design/methodology/approach The survey includes yes/no, Likert scale and free text responses, which were analysed quantitatively and qualitatively. Findings Respondents to the survey expressed divergent views of whether they would emulate Snowden, even though most in all countries believed he had helped rather than harmed society. Originality/value This is the only such broad survey on attitudes to Snowden of which the authors are aware.

CAREFUL ATTUNEMENTS: THE CHOREOGRAPHING OF CARE THROUGH SMARTPHONE PRACTICES DURING, AND AFTER, CRISIS

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caitlin McGrane ◽  
Larissa Hjorth
Keyword(s):  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
Affective Intensity ◽  
Australian Summer ◽  
Feminist Materialism

In this paper we explore how smartphone users in Victoria (Australia) used mobile and non-mobile media to find and manage information, emotions and networks during the 2019-2020 Australian summer bushfire crisis. Through arts-based methods that deployed drawing, critical reflection and group discussion, we sought to use techniques that elicit the emotional responses and motivations of our participants in and after the crisis. We draw on the concept of affective witnessing (Papailias, 2016; Richardson and Schankweiler, 2019) as a process whereby the boundaries between mourner and witness blur through the affective intensity of mobile media. We contextualise affective witnessing in terms of feminist materialism of care practices (Pols, 2012; Puig de la Bellacasa, 2011; Lupton and Hjorth, forthcoming) to focus on the importance of taking seriously care—care at a distance of family and friends, self-care and care of intimate digital publics.

scholarly journals Research Priorities in Spiritual Care: An International Survey of Palliative Care Researchers and Clinicians

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 518-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Selman ◽  
Teresa Young ◽  
Mieke Vermandere ◽  
Ian Stirling ◽  
Carlo Leget
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Research Priorities ◽  
International Survey

scholarly journals P68 International Survey Of Medical students Exposure to Relevant global Surgery (ISOMERS): A cross-sectional study

BJS Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Soham Bandyopadhyay ◽  
Ulrick S Kanmounye ◽  
Priyansh Shah ◽  
Katayoun Madani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical Curriculum ◽  
Geographic Region ◽  
Global Surgery ◽  
Free Text ◽  
Student Interest ◽  
International Survey ◽  
Multinomial Regression ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The World

Abstract Introduction Medical students around the world have been showing an increasing interest in Global Surgery as evident by their participation in various organizations on local and international levels. We set out to evaluate exposure of medical students to global surgery, modes of exposure, whether the exposure meets the needs of students, awareness of the key messages of the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery, global surgery career aspirations and barriers to said aspirations. Methods We developed the International Survey Of Medical students Exposure to Relevant global Surgery (ISOMERS) study, an online, international, questionnaire-based study. This survey will collect data from final year medical students across the world. The questionnaire utilises a combination of the Likert scale, multiple choice options and free text questions and will be disseminated by email and social media through the International Student Surgical Network, a global surgery student interest group with more than 5,000 members. Results Primary outcomes will include exposure to global surgery research, advocacy and education among medical students. We will generate simple descriptive statistics and identify determinants of exposure among medical students and subgroups (country income class and geographic region). Also, we will use multinomial regression analysis to identify confounders and significant dependent variables. Conclusion The ISOMERS study will identify the level of exposure to global surgery among students during medical education. An understanding of this exposure will be crucial in developing the foundation for global surgery education at the level of undergraduate medical curriculum and furthered in addressing perceived barriers to joining the global surgery workforce.

scholarly journals Emotional responses, caring, self-care, and SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)

2021 ◽  
Vol 129 (s1) ◽  
pp. 252-260
Author(s):  
Diana Ortega-Aponte ◽  
Astrid Rozo-Sánchez ◽  
Diego Rivera-Porras ◽  
Mabel García- Echeverri ◽  
Ginna Pérez-Reyes
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Occupational Diseases ◽  
Current Problem ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Stress Disorders ◽  
Job Responsibilities ◽  
Psychological Well Being

Currently, the pandemic caused by COVID-19 and the various measures to stop the contagion has developed multiple crises in society. The work environment has been transformed, occupational diseases have increased, therefore, it was decided to analyze the information published on the current problem and it was found that according to statistics, depressive, panic, and stress disorders have increased, due to social isolation, the change in routine and new ways of exercising job responsibilities, leading to a decrease in people’s psychological well-being. Actualmente la pandemia ocasionada por el COVID-19y las diversas medidas para detener el contagio han desarrollado múltiples crisis en la sociedad.

scholarly journals A Short History of Documenting Spiritual Care

2020 ◽  
pp. 11-20
Author(s):  
Simon Peng-Keller ◽  
David Neuhold
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Self Care ◽  
First Century ◽  
Patient Records ◽  
Electronic Patient Records ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
Spiritual Self ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract The first chapter of this edited volume traces the history of documenting spiritual care. By referring to ancient and early modern practices, the relationship between spiritual (self-) care and various forms of documentation is outlined. The focus lies on developments in the twentieth and the twenty-first century, although the question of what constitutes an adequate practice of documenting healthcare chaplaincy is as old as the profession itself. The pioneers of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) – Richard Cabot, Anton Boisen, Russell L. Dicks, and others – developed distinctive forms of recording for different purposes. For example, procedures of documentation that are prepared for and helpful to the pastors themselves as “self-criticism,” “self-improvement,” or even “self-revelation” have been distinguished from documentation practices that are intra- or interprofessional. Regarding more recent developments in documentation, the introduction of electronic patient records (EMRs) was critical. We present a case study from Kenya to show how the issues discussed here are encountered in a non-Euro-American context.

scholarly journals Requirements engineering practice and problems in agile projects: results from an international survey

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Wagner ◽  
Daniel Méndez Fernández ◽  
Michael Felderer ◽  
Marcos Kalinowski
Keyword(s):  
Requirements Engineering ◽  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Agile Development ◽  
Engineering Practice ◽  
Free Text ◽  
Acceptance Test ◽  
International Survey ◽  
Empirical Knowledge ◽  
Test Driven Development ◽  
Development Processes

Requirements engineering (RE) is considerably different in agile development than in traditional processes. Yet, there is little empirical knowledge on the state of the practice and contemporary problems in agile RE. As part of a bigger survey initiative (Naming the Pain in Requirements Engineering), we build an empirical basis on such aspects of agile RE. Based on the responses from 92 people representing 92 organizations, we found that agile RE concentrates on free-text documentation of requirements elicited with a variety of techniques. Many manage explicit traces between requirements and code. Furthermore, the continuous improvement of RE is done because of intrinsic motivation. Important experienced problems include unclear requirements and communication flaws. Hence, agile RE is in several aspects not so different from RE in other development processes. We plan to investigate specific techniques, such as acceptance-test-driven development, in a future survey to better capture what is special in agile RE.

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