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THE RELATIVE PREVALENCE OF VARIOUS SPIRITUAL NEEDS
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@MISC{Flannelly_therelative,
author = {Kevin J. Flannelly and Kathleen Galek and John Bucchino and Adam Vane},
title = {THE RELATIVE PREVALENCE OF VARIOUS SPIRITUAL NEEDS},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
Abstract: An announcement was placed in a chaplaincy newsletter inviting chap-lains from the United States and Canada to participate in a survey about the spiritual needs of their patients. A total of 167 chaplains responded to the invita-tion and completed an on-line questionnaire. The questionnaire listed 28 spiri-tual needs that fell into seven categories. Chaplains were asked to rate how often they encountered patients with each of the needs, using a scale of 1 to 6, with 1 meaning “a few times a year ” and 6 meaning “many times a day. ” The re-sponses of chaplains indicated that the seven categories formed a hierarchy of needs. The most common, or prevalent, of the seven spiritual needs were the need for love and belonging, and the need to find meaning and purpose, which chap-lains encountered between “many times a week ” to “a few times a day.”
