Effect of a spiritual care training program to build knowledge, competence, confidence and self-awareness among Australian health and aged care staff: An exploratory study
Publication Details
Jones, K. F.,
Kearney, M.,
&
Best, M.
(2024).
Effect of a spiritual care training program to build knowledge, competence, confidence and self-awareness among Australian health and aged care staff: An exploratory study.
Journal of Religion and Health,.
Abstract
The aim of this study was to evaluate a new spiritual care training program with health and aged care staf. A four-module program was delivered to 44 participants at a large Catholic health and aged care provider in Australia. Pre, post and 6 week follow-up surveys were administered and included measures of spiritual care competency, confdence, perspectives of spirituality and spiritual care, spiritual well-being, and satisfaction. Paired sample t-tests showed total scores of participants’ spiritual well-being, spiritual care competency and confdence signifcantly improved following the training and were largely maintained at follow-up. Perspectives on spirituality and spiritual care did not signifcantly change over time.
Keywords
Spirituality, Spiritual care, Healthcare, Aged case, Training
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