RT Article
T1 The NERSH International Collaboration on Values, Spirituality and Religion in Medicine: Development of Questionnaire, Description of Data Pool, and Overview of Pool Publications
JF Religions
VO 7
IS 8
SP 1
OP 26
A1 Hvidt, Niels Christian 1969-
A1 Frick, Eckhard 1955-
A1 Baumann, Klaus 1963-
A1 AlYousefi, Nada A.
A1 Balslev van Randwijk, Christian
A1 Büssing, Arndt 1962-
A1 Curlin, Farr A.
A1 Eglin, Micha
A1 Hefti, René
A1 Kappel Kørup, Alex
A1 Karimah, Azimatul
A1 Kuseyri, Can
A1 Lawrence, Ryan
A1 Lee, Eunmi 1981-
A1 Lucchetti, Giancarlo
A1 Mukwayakala, Tryphon
A1 Nielsen, Jesper Bo
A1 Opsahl, Tobias
A1 Ramakrishnan, Parameshwaran
A1 Schouten, Esther
A1 Schulze, Andreas
A1 Søndergaard, Jens
A1 Wermuth, Inga
A1 Wey, Miriam
A1 dePont Christensen, René
LA English
PB MDPI
YR 2016
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1586109057
AB Modern healthcare research has only in recent years investigated the impact of health care workers' religious and other moral values on medical practice, interaction with patients, and ethically complex decision-making. Thus far, no international data exist on the way such values vary across different countries. We therefore established the NERSH International Collaboration on Values in Medicine with datasets on physician religious characteristics and values based on the same survey instrument. The present article provides (a) an overview of the development of the original and optimized survey instruments, (b) an overview of the content of the NERSH data pool at this stage and (c) a brief review of insights gained from articles published with the questionnaire. The questionnaire was developed in 2002, after extensive pretesting in the United States and subsequently translated from English into other languages using forward-backward translations with Face Validations. In 2013, representatives of several national research groups came together and worked at optimizing the survey instrument for future use on the basis of the existing datasets. Research groups were identified through personal contacts with researchers requesting to use the instrument, as well as through two literature searches. Data were assembled in Stata and synchronized for their comparability using a matched intersection design based on the items in the original questionnaire. With a few optimizations and added modules appropriate for cultures more secular than that of the United States, the survey instrument holds promise as a tool for future comparative analyses. The pool at this stage consists of data from eleven studies conducted by research teams in nine different countries over six continents with responses from more than 6000 health professionals. Inspection of data between groups suggests large differences in religious and other moral values across nations and cultures, and that these values account for differences in health professional's clinical practices.
K1 Communication
K1 Medical Ethics
K1 physician values
K1 Religion and health
K1 Spirituality
DO 10.3390/rel7080107