caa a22 4500 477052142 CHVBK 20180405111341.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02354941 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02354941 Hospitalized psychiatric and medical patients and the clergy [Elektronische Daten] [Abigail Sivan, George Fitchett, Laurel Burton] Earlier research suggested that persons in a community with significant psychiatric disorders seek relief from their clergy as often as from trained mental-health professionals. In this research, contacts with clergy about current hospitalization by matched samples of inpatient psychiatric (N=51) and medical/surgical (N=50) patients were compared, as were responses to structured interviews about the importance of religion, religious affiliation, and participation, spiritual needs, and spiritual well-being. The findings suggest that the two groups were similar in demographics, the degree to which religion was a source of strength and comfort in their lives, and percentages reporting as having a clergy person; the group of hospitalized psychiatric patients was significantly less likely, however, than the sample of medical/surgical patients to have discussed their current hospitalization with their clergy persons. Possible causes for this difference as well as areas of further research are discussed. Institutes of Religion and Health, 1996 Sivan Abigail the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology and Social Sciences, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago, IL aut Fitchett George the Department of Religion, Health, and Human Values, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago, IL aut Burton Laurel the Department of Religion, Health, and Human Values, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago, IL aut Journal of Religion and Health Kluwer Academic Publishers 35/1(1996-03-01), 11-19 0022-4197 35:1<11 1996 35 10943 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02354941 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02354941 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sivan Abigail the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology and Social Sciences, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago, IL aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fitchett George the Department of Religion, Health, and Human Values, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago, IL aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Burton Laurel the Department of Religion, Health, and Human Values, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago, IL aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Religion and Health Kluwer Academic Publishers 35/1(1996-03-01), 11-19 0022-4197 35:1<11 1996 35 10943 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer