Friday, May 23, 15:30-17:00 - seven concurrent sessions

For abstracts see the conference folder ().

Session 1: How do Health Care Professionals understand Religion/Spirituality and Spiritual Care?

Chair: Jacqueline Watts

Audio of the FC:

• Spiritual Care by Hands and Heart
  (Liv Odbehr, Kari Kvigne, Solveig Hauge, Lars Danbolt)
• Religion, Spirituality and Spiritual Care of Nurses in Mental Health Care, Hospital Care and Home Care in The Netherlands
  (Annemiek Schep-Akkerman, R.R. van Leuven)
• Meaning-making, Spirituality and Religion: Significance for Patients in Treatment for Substance Use Disorder
  (Torgeir Sorensen, Lars Lien, Anne Landheim, Lars Danbolt)
• Development of the Instrument for Measuring Spiritual Health Scale in Thai University Students
  (Preeya Keawpimon, Sureeporn Kritcharoen, Sopen Chunan, Urairat Nayai)
• What happens when the Patient's Bell rings: An explorative Study in the Field of Palliative Care
  (Niels Chr. Hvidt, Cécile Loetz, Jakob Müller, Beate Mayr, Yvonne Petersen, Piret Paal, Carlos Ignatio Man Gin, Yousef Helo, Eckhard Frick)

Session 2: Religion and Spirituality in Daily Practice of Health Care Professionals
Chair: René Hefti

Audio of the FC:

• What is the Religious Conviction/Spirituality of my Patients? Austrian Medical Students' Point of View (Anahita Paula Rassoulian)
• Influence of Spirituality on Work Engagement in Physicians with Anthroposophic Background
  (Arndt Buessing, Peter Heusser)
• Emotion Work Associated with Personal Faith
  (Bernice Tighe)
• Religious Practice as an Occupational Need
  (Patricia Eyres)
• "Availability and Vulnerability" in Advanced Nurse Practicioner Consultations: Key Components for Integration of Spirituality into Clinical Practice?
  (Melanie Rogers)

Session 3: Patients' Needs - Research and Case Studies
Chair: George Fitchett

Audio of the FC (in order: Elliott-Truchard-Duerst-Corry-Goren):

• The Role of Spirituality in Life Attitude of Individuals with Down Syndrome
  (Ayse Burcu Goren, Alice Moscaritolo) Link to Prezi (Internet-based slide-presentation)
• Religious Needs of Dialysis Patients and their Families
  (Barbara Elliott, Charles Gessert)
• Spiritual Assessment and Care Plan
  (Eve Rubli Truchard, Etienne Rochat, Anne-Véronique Duerst, Stefanie Monod)
• The Creativity-Spirituality Construct and its Role in Transformative Coping
  (Dagmar A.S. Corry, John Mallett, Christopher A. Lewis, Ahmed M. Abdel-Khalek)
• Spiritual Distress and Psychological Distress in Elderly Patients: Joint Intervention?
  (Anne-Véronique Duerst, Etienne Rochat, Eve Rubli Truchard, Stefanie Monod)

Session 4: Coping and Quality of Life
Chair: Kevin Ladd

• The Role of Religious/Spiritual Well-Being in Coping with Dermatological Diseases
  (Elisabeth Aberer, M. Pilch, M. Lukanz, S. Scharf, M. Glawischnig-Goschik, N. Wutte, R. Fink-Puches, H.F. Unterrainer)
• Religiosity and Health Related Quality of Life of Elderly People: Populational Study in Sao Paulo City, Brazil
  (Gina Andrade Abdala, Miako Kimura, Yeda Abarecida de Oliveira Duarte, Maria Lúcia Lebrao, Bernardo dos Santos)
• The Association of Spirituality and Quality of Life in Chronic Kidney Disease Stage V Patients (Areewan Cheawchanwattana, Waraporn Saisunantarom)
• A Survey Study on the Use of Religious Coping among Cancer Patients in Sweden
  (Fereshteh Ahmadi, Nader Ahmadi)
• Understanding the Relationship between Religion and Well-being: A Mixed Methods Investigation into Religious Maturity and Psychological Well-being
  (Julian Caruana)

Session 5: Implementing Religion & Spirituality into Medical Pracice
Chair: Christina Puchalski

• Developments in Spiritual Care Education in German Speaking Countries
  (Piret Paal, Traugott Roser, Eckhard Frick)
• Transferring Spiritual and Palliative Care Competency through Work Place Learning - A Hospice Teacher's Team Experience
  (Kirsten Anne Tornoe)
• Spiritual Care and the Organisation of Inter-Professional Cooperation in Acute-Care Hospitals: Concepts, Implementation and Effectiveness of Interventions
  (Regula Gasser, Ralph Kunz)
• What Does the SDAT Bring to the Health Care Team?
  (Etienne Rochat, A.V. Duerst, E. Rubli Truchard, S. Monod)

Session 6: Research on Patients' Understanding of Religion & Spirituality - Measures, Interpretations, and Mottoes
Chair: Arjan Braam

Audio of the FC:

• Validating a Patient Reported Outcome Measure of Spiritual Care
  (Austyn Snowden, Iain Telfer)
• Interpretations of Chaplaincy Care by Clients in Psychiatric Care
  (Martin Walton)
• God Image, Personality, and Mental Health
  (Hanneke Schaap-Jonker, Arjan Braam)
• Life Mottoe's in Dementia Care. Issues of Loss, Longing and Spirituality in Dementia Caregivers' Stories
  (Hanneke Muthert)
• Construction of an Instrument for Measuring Implicit Aspects of God Representation
  (Henk Stulp, G. Glas, E.H.M. Eurelings-Bontekoe) Prezi (Link to online-based Slide-show)

Session 7: Religion/Spirituality and Health Behaviour
Chair: Lars Danbold

Audio of the FC (only Permana-Lycett-Gäbler):

• Keep Trying and Leave the Rest to Allah: How Diabetic Indonesian Muslim Adults Manage Self-Care and Religion
  (Iman Permana)
• Predictors of Polish Students' Life Satisfaction and General Health Ressources
  (Janusz Sutzykiewicz, Arndt Buessing)
• The Association of Religious Affiliation and Body Mass Index (BMI): An Analysis from the Health Survey of England
  (Deborah Lycett)
• Role and Influence of Christian Faith on ART Adherence and Adherence Counselling: A Case of Myung Sung Christian Medical Center, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia
  (Naod Mekonnen, Mastewal Mekonnen)
• Association between Health Behaviour and Religion/Spirituality in Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Austrian High Schools
  (Gabriele Gäbler, Hermann Toplak, René Hefti, Josef Haas, Elisabeth Pail)