Lab publishes on chaplain interactions

Amy Lawton, the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab’s Research Manager, and Lab Director Wendy Cadge have published a new article in Palliative and Supportive Care. An excerpt from the article, along with a link to the article’s full text (open access), is below.

This article explores whether most people who have contact with a chaplain are primary recipients of the chaplain’s care or the caregivers of a person who is ill, what the content is of the contact, and how recipients remember and experience it. While a 2019 survey reported that 80% of recipients found their interactions with chaplains to be moderately or very valuable (Cadge et al. Reference Cadge, Winfield and Skaggs 2020), little is known about the people who interacted with the chaplain and the content of these interactions. This study is the first to show the groups of people – primary recipients and visitors/caregivers – who receive care from chaplains. It demonstrates how care recipients experience care from chaplains differently based on their position, which has important implications for practice.

Read the full article, which is available in full at no charge, here.