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ArticleJournal of health care chaplaincy

Interprofessional communication training to address spiritual aspects of cancer care.

Betty R Ferrell, Haley Buller, Judith A Paice, Myra Glajchen, Trace Haythorn

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Article in Journal of health care chaplaincy. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Spiritual needs and satisfaction with life: an exploration of mediating pathways.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Betty R FerrellDivision of Nursing Research and Education, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA, USA.
Haley BullerDivision of Nursing Research and Education, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1399-4166
Judith A PaiceCancer Pain Program, Division, Hematology-Oncology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
Myra GlajchenFellowship Training Program, MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care, New York City, NY, USA.
Trace HaythornAssociation for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE), Atlanta, GA, USA.
City Of Hope National Medical Center · USNorthwestern University · US

Funding

Interdisciplinary Communication Training in OncologyR25CA240111 · NCI · BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE/CITY OF HOPE · PI FERRELL, BETTY R · 2020 to 2024
$1.5M
NCI NIH HHS R25 CA240111
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Effective communication is essential for palliative care clinicians to provide quality spiritual care to cancer patients. Despite attention to spiritual needs having the potential to positively impact a patient's quality of life, clinicians continue to report a lack of confidence in addressing a patient's spiritual distress. This article addresses the development of a 3-day train-the-trainer communication cancer education program (ICC: Interprofessional Communication Curriculum) organized by the 8 domains of the National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care. The main objectives of ICC are to train adult oncology clinicians (nurses, social workers, and chaplains) in communication skills across all aspects of palliative care and to help prepare them to provide communication skills training to their colleagues at their home institutions. ICC participants attend in dyads consisting of differing disciplines and create 3 goals for implementing institutional change. To date, 126 participants (69 teams) have attended an ICC training. Pre-course survey results identified spiritual care as participants' least effective area of communication. Immediate post-course evaluation data revealed the spiritual care module and its subsequent lab session as the most useful sessions to participant's practice. Data from the 6-and-12-months post-course follow-up revealed participant's quality improvement projects focused heavily on improving spiritual care.

Indexed as

Communicationinterdisciplinary educationpalliative Carespirituality

Identifiers

PMID35853097
PMCPMC9850499
OpenAlexW4285799137

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