The impact of religious and spiritual care on parents or caregivers in pediatrics: a scoping review.

Religious and spiritual care has been overlooked by studies evaluating its impact on caregivers of patients admitted to pediatric hospitals. This scoping review examines the literature on the impact of spiritual and religious care on parents or guardians of children admitted to high acuity pediatric...

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Publicado en:Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 216 - 229
Autores principales: Leavitt-Alcántara, Salvador, Summers, Samantha
Formato: review tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jul-Sep2026
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          Leavitt-Alcántara, Salvador
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          Child, Hospitalized
          Pediatric Care
          Hospital Units
          Caregivers Psychosocial Factors
          Spiritual Care
          Religion and Religions
          Parents Psychosocial Factors
          Spirituality
          Scoping Review
          Emotions
          Coping
          Bereavement
          Parental Attitudes
          Caregiver Attitudes
          Attitude to Medical Treatment
          Attitude to Illness
          Decision Making, Clinical
      ab: Religious and spiritual care has been overlooked by studies evaluating its impact on caregivers of patients admitted to pediatric hospitals. This scoping review examines the literature on the impact of spiritual and religious care on parents or guardians of children admitted to high acuity pediatric hospital units. Utilizing Arksey & O'Malley's framework for conducting scoping reviews, we included studies from within the last ten years written in English or Spanish in pediatric populations that reported role, effects, or impact of religious and spiritual care. Results reveal themes of positive impact of spiritual or religious care on several components of parents/caregivers' in the areas of emotional coping, grief and bereavement, positive parental perception of the impact of chaplains in high acuity settings, and outside spiritual/religious guidance and support during the medical decision-making process. More studies are needed to address the paucity of data on this topic with caregivers of pediatric patients.
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