Appendix Table 3.
Mental health provider and chaplain perceptions of integration at baseline and post learning collaborative
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| Baseline (N = 379)1 |
Post Collaborative (N = 210)1 |
Baseline (N = 77)1 |
Post Collaborative (N = 50)1 |
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| Domain | Survey Item | n agree or strongly agree/total (%) | n agree or strongly agree/total (%) | ||
| Screening | 1. I use a routine process to identify patients that could benefit from other discipline2 services. | 154/377 (40.8%) | 109/209 (52.2%) | 34/75 (45.3%) | 31/49 (63.3%) |
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| Referrals | 2. I make frequent referrals to other discipline. | 70/377 (18.6%) | 46/209 (22.0%) | 23/75 (30.7%) | 21/48 (43.8%) |
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| 3. I receive frequent referrals from other discipline. | 33/371 (8.9%) | 21/206 (10.2%) | 23/76 (30.3%) | 19/49 (38.8%) | |
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| Assessment | 4. I regularly consider mental health issues as part of spiritual assessments. | - | - | 64/76 (84.2%) | 39/49 (79.6%) |
| I regularly consider religious and spiritual issues as part of mental health assessments. | 314/378 (83.1%) | 171/209 (81.8%) | - | - | |
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| Communication & Documentation | 5. I regularly communicate with other discipline to improve patient care. | 76/376 (20.2%) | 61/208 (29.3%) | 40/77 (51.9%) | 27/50 (54.0%) |
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| 6. I benefit from reading other discipline’s notes. | 128/362 (35.4%) | 80/199 (40.2%) | 60/76 (78.9%) | 28/46 (60.9%) | |
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| Role Clarification | 7. I have a clear understanding of how mental health and chaplain services can collaborate. | 186/365 (51.0%) | 125/204 (61.3%) | 52/75 (69.3%) | 43/48 (89.6%) |
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| Cross-Disciplinary Training | 8. I have opportunities for joint training with other discipline when appropriate. | 75/348 (21.6%) | 68/195 (34.9%) | 35/73 (47.9%) | 29/47 (61.7%) |
Two mental health providers were missing/don’t know for all of these items on the baseline survey. Five mental health providers were missing/don’t know for all of these items on the post-collaborative survey. Three chaplains were missing/don’t know for all of these items on the baseline survey, and this was the case for one chaplain for the post-collaborative survey. Numbers in the table are presented based on total number of participants who responded to an item, with the excluded missing values (including “don’t know) ranging from 0 to 9 for the variables presented.
Mental health professionals taking the survey rated themselves in relation to chaplains (e.g., “I make frequent referrals to chaplains). Chaplains taking the survey rated themselves in relation to mental health providers (e.g., “I make frequent referrals to mental health providers).