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| German community pastors' contact with palliative care patients and collaboration with health care professionals | | Author(s) | Kurt Buser, Volker E Amelung, Nils Schneider |
| Journal title | Journal of Social Work in End-of-life & Palliative Care, vol 4, no 2, 2008 |
| Publisher | Haworth Social Work Practice Press, Binghamton, NY, 2008 |
| Pages | pp 85-100 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Terminal care ; Pastoral care ; Ministers of religion ; Interaction [welfare services] ; Medical workers ; Social surveys ; Germany. |
| Annotation | The current level of palliative care in Germany is unsatisfactory. Health care professionals view the psychological support of patients and families and the collaboration between different care providers as the main deficiencies. In this context, community pastors could have an important role in providing psychosocial and spiritual care of patients at home, but little is known of their views on this matter. The authors conducted 76 standardised telephone interviews with protestant and Catholic pastors and examined how much contact pastors had with palliative care patients, their views on collaborating with health care professionals, and how pastors assessed their own skills in palliative care. 41% of respondents had no contact with any palliative care patients. The majority perceived collaboration with family doctors to be insufficient. The pastors assessed their own skills concerning palliative care predominantly as "satisfactory". The findings suggest that community pastors' participation in delivering palliative care in Germany might be encouraged by specialised training and intensified contact with health care professionals. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090731214 A |
| Classmark | LV: OW: XR: QK6: QT: 3F: 767 |
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