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- Title
Hospital-based Spiritual Care for Mothers of Neonates at RMBH in Eldoret, Kenya: A Situational Analysis.
- Authors
Kamaara, Eunice; Nyongesa, Paul; Ayanga, Hazel O.; Choge-Kerama, Emily J.; Chelagat, Dinah; Koech, Joseph K.; Mraja, Mohamed; Chemorion, Edith K.; Mothaly, Joseph; Kiyiapi, Lucy; Katwa, Joseph; Odunga, Jack; Lemons, James
- Abstract
Although the World Health Organization defines health holistically (WHO 2016), and although a positive relationship exists between spirituality and health, maternity care globally focuses on physical and psychological care while excluding spiritual care. In Kenya, spiritual care in hospital settings has received little attention. Yet, cross-culturally, childbearing and motherhood are perceived to be highly spiritual events, but which may be traumatic especially if obstetric complications, postpartum depression, and death occur. Spiritual care is positively associated with patients' ability to cope with negative experiences but also with a healthy birth process with optimal outcomes. Towards improving obstetric care by integrating professional clinical pastoral care in hospital settings in Kenya, we carried out a baseline study to explore the birthing physical, psychological and spiritual experiences of mothers of neonates admitted at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the Riley Mother and Baby Hospital (RMBH) in Eldoret, Kenya. This article presents the results of the study.
- Subjects
KENYA; CHILDBIRTH &; psychology; CHI-squared test; COUNSELING; HEALTH facilities; HEALTH services accessibility; MATERNAL health services; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL quality control; MEDICAL ethics; PATIENT-professional relations; PSYCHOLOGY of mothers; NEONATAL intensive care; PRIVACY; PUBLIC hospitals; RESEARCH evaluation; SPIRITUALITY; MULTIPLE regression analysis; NEONATAL intensive care units; SPIRITUAL care (Medical care); ATTITUDES of mothers; CROSS-sectional method; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Health & Social Care Chaplaincy, 2019, Vol 7, Issue 2, p145
- ISSN
2051-5553
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1558/hscc.37265