TY - JOUR
T1 - Addressing Spiritual Needs and Overall Satisfaction With Service Provision Among Older Hospitalized Inpatients
AU - Hodge, David
AU - Salas-Wright, Christopher P.
AU - Wolosin, Robert J.
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Preparation of this article was supported by a grant from the John A. Hartford Foundation.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2014.
PY - 2016/4/1
Y1 - 2016/4/1
N2 - Little research has examined the relationship between addressing older adults' spiritual needs and overall satisfaction with service provision during hospitalization, despite the importance of spirituality and religion to most older adults. This study examined this relationship, in tandem with the effects of eight potential mediators. Toward this end, structural equation modeling was used with a sample of 4,112 adults age 65 and older who were consecutively discharged over a 12-month period from hospitals in California, Texas, and New England. As hypothesized, addressing spiritual needs was positively associated with overall satisfaction. The relationship between spiritual needs and satisfaction was fully mediated by seven variables: nursing staff, the discharge process, visitors, physicians, the admissions process, room quality, and the administration of tests and treatments. The diverse array of mediating pathways identified highlights the importance of health care practitioners working collaboratively to address older adults' spiritual needs.
AB - Little research has examined the relationship between addressing older adults' spiritual needs and overall satisfaction with service provision during hospitalization, despite the importance of spirituality and religion to most older adults. This study examined this relationship, in tandem with the effects of eight potential mediators. Toward this end, structural equation modeling was used with a sample of 4,112 adults age 65 and older who were consecutively discharged over a 12-month period from hospitals in California, Texas, and New England. As hypothesized, addressing spiritual needs was positively associated with overall satisfaction. The relationship between spiritual needs and satisfaction was fully mediated by seven variables: nursing staff, the discharge process, visitors, physicians, the admissions process, room quality, and the administration of tests and treatments. The diverse array of mediating pathways identified highlights the importance of health care practitioners working collaboratively to address older adults' spiritual needs.
KW - heath care settings
KW - older adults
KW - religion
KW - spiritual needs
KW - spirituality
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U2 - 10.1177/0733464813515090
DO - 10.1177/0733464813515090
M3 - Article
C2 - 24652923
AN - SCOPUS:84960075460
SN - 0733-4648
VL - 35
SP - 374
EP - 400
JO - Journal of Applied Gerontology
JF - Journal of Applied Gerontology
IS - 4
ER -