Keith G Meador
Biographic Data
| ID | 366670 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keith G Meador |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keith G |
| FAMILY NAME | Meador |
| SIGNATURE | MEADOR K G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Increasing chaplain support for veterans at high risk for suicide through targeted outreach
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has prioritized improving the identification of veterans at risk for suicide and ensuring adequate staffing of personnel to assist veterans in need. It is imperative that suicide prevention efforts make use of the full range of available resources, including diverse professionals with distinctive skillsets. Chaplains are engaged in suicide prevention efforts in VA, but the literature lacks examples of chapl…
Validation of the Moral Injury Outcome Scale in acute care nurses
The MIOS is valid and reliable in acute care nursing populations and demonstrates sound psychometric properties. Scores among nurses diverge from those of military personnel in areas that may inform distinctions in interventions to address moral injury in these populations
Collaborative spiritual care for moral injury in the veterans Affairs Healthcare System (VA)
The psychospiritual nature of moral injury invites consideration regarding how chaplains understand the construct and provide care. To identify how chaplains in the VA Healthcare System conceptualize moral injury, we conducted an anonymous online survey (N = 361; 45% response rate). Chaplains responded to a battery of items and provided free-text definitions of moral injury that generally aligned with key elements in the existing literature, thou…
Moral Injury
A Conceptual Model for the Translation of Bioethics Research and Scholarship
While the bioethics literature demonstrates that the field has spent substantial time and thought over the last four decades on the goals, methods, and desired outcomes for service and training in bioethics, there has been less progress defining the nature and goals of bioethics research and scholarship. This gap makes it difficult both to describe the breadth and depth of these areas of bioethics and, importantly, to gauge their success. However…
Evidence-Based Chaplaincy Care
Leaders in health care chaplaincy and practice guidelines, such as the Association of Professional Chaplains' Standards of Practice, call for chaplains to develop an evidence-based approach to their work. The extent to which practicing chaplains accept this new paradigm is unclear. The aim of this study was to gather information regarding chaplains' attitudes and practices with respect to evidence-based chaplaincy care. Data for the study came fr…
Chaplaincy and Mental Health in the Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense
Chaplains play important roles in caring for Veterans and Service members with mental health problems. As part of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Department of Defense (DoD) Integrated Mental Health Strategy, we used a sequential approach to examining intersections between chaplaincy and mental health by gathering and building upon: 1) input from key subject matter experts; 2) quantitative data from the VA / DoD Chaplain Survey (N = 2…
The Clergy Occupational Distress Index (Codi)
Recollections of Childhood Religious Identity and Behavior as a Function of Adult Religiousness
People have a strong motivation to maintain a self-concept that is coherent and consistent over time. Religion is an central source of social identity for many people, but its importance is prone to dramatic change across the life course. To maintain a consistent perception of self, recollections of one's own past religiousness may shift to better fit with the present. This study examined changes between early and middle adulthood in retrospectiv…
The Role of Military and Veterans Affairs Chaplains in the Treatment of Alcohol Problems
Religiosity is an Important Part of Coping with Grief in Pregnancy After a Traumatic Second Trimester Loss
“It’s Medically Proven!”
Spirituality and Psychiatry
Objective Changes in the occurrence of gastro-oesophageal reflux symptoms (GORS) in the population remain uncertain. This study aimed to determine the prevalence changes, the incidence and the spontaneous loss of GORS. Design This population-based cohort study was conducted within the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study (the HUNT study), a longitudinal series of population-based health surveys in Nord-Trøndelag County, Norway. The study base encompassed …
Episcopal Measure of Faith Tradition
When Patients Say, “It’s in God’s Hands.”
arrived at the hospital by ambulance after the sudden onset of right-sided weakness and difficulty finding words while he was at his construction work site
Measuring Religiousness in Health Research
Spirituality and Health in a Therapeutic Culture
Physicians need to understand the need for clarity and rigor in defining spirituality in research and practice to bring spirituality into the practice of health care. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association
Social Versus Individual Motivation
The traditional interpretation of "intrinsic" religiousness has fostered an unchallenged assumption that normative and substantive religious motivation is inherently individual and personal. Social motives for religiousness and structured practices have been characterized as "extrinsic" and as lacking in formative significance. We argue that this view is most applicable in American Protestant religions, and hence existing religious motivation sca…
Religion, Spirituality, and Health Service Use by Older Hospitalized Patients
The Social–Environmental Context of Violent Behavior in Persons Treated for Severe Mental Illness
Objectives. This study examined the prevalence and correlates of violent behavior by individuals with severe mental illness. Methods. Participants (N = 802) were adults with psychotic or major mood disorders receiving inpatient or outpatient services in public mental health systems in 4 states. Results. The 1-year prevalence of serious assaultive behavior was 13%. Three variables—past violent victimization, violence in the surrounding environment…
Growing Old in a Therapeutic Culture
Does Religious Attendance Prolong Survival? A Six-Year Follow-Up Study of 3,968 Older Adults
METHODS: A probability sample of 3,968 community-dwelling adults aged 64-101 years residing in the Piedmont of North Carolina was surveyed in 1986 as part of the Established Populations for the Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (EPESE) program of the National Institutes of Health. Attendance at religious services and a wide variety of sociodemographic and health variables were assessed at baseline. Vital status of members was then determined p…
Social Versus Individual Motivation
The traditional interpretation of "intrinsic" religiousness has fostered an unchallenged assumption that normative and substantive religious motivation is inherently individual and personal. Social motives for religiousness and structured practices have been characterized as "extrinsic" and as lacking in formative significance. We argue that this view is most applicable in American Protestant religions, and hence existing religious motivation sca…
The Social–Environmental Context of Violent Behavior in Persons Treated for Severe Mental Illness
Objectives. This study examined the prevalence and correlates of violent behavior by individuals with severe mental illness. Methods. Participants (N = 802) were adults with psychotic or major mood disorders receiving inpatient or outpatient services in public mental health systems in 4 states. Results. The 1-year prevalence of serious assaultive behavior was 13%. Three variables—past violent victimization, violence in the surrounding environment…
Recollections of Childhood Religious Identity and Behavior as a Function of Adult Religiousness
People have a strong motivation to maintain a self-concept that is coherent and consistent over time. Religion is an central source of social identity for many people, but its importance is prone to dramatic change across the life course. To maintain a consistent perception of self, recollections of one's own past religiousness may shift to better fit with the present. This study examined changes between early and middle adulthood in retrospectiv…
Does Religious Attendance Prolong Survival? A Six-Year Follow-Up Study of 3,968 Older Adults
METHODS: A probability sample of 3,968 community-dwelling adults aged 64-101 years residing in the Piedmont of North Carolina was surveyed in 1986 as part of the Established Populations for the Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (EPESE) program of the National Institutes of Health. Attendance at religious services and a wide variety of sociodemographic and health variables were assessed at baseline. Vital status of members was then determined p…
Growing Old in a Therapeutic Culture
The Social–Environmental Context of Violent Behavior in Persons Treated for Severe Mental Illness
Objectives. This study examined the prevalence and correlates of violent behavior by individuals with severe mental illness. Methods. Participants (N = 802) were adults with psychotic or major mood disorders receiving inpatient or outpatient services in public mental health systems in 4 states. Results. The 1-year prevalence of serious assaultive behavior was 13%. Three variables—past violent victimization, violence in the surrounding environment…
Religion, Spirituality, and Health Service Use by Older Hospitalized Patients
Spirituality and Health in a Therapeutic Culture
Physicians need to understand the need for clarity and rigor in defining spirituality in research and practice to bring spirituality into the practice of health care. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association
Social Versus Individual Motivation
The traditional interpretation of "intrinsic" religiousness has fostered an unchallenged assumption that normative and substantive religious motivation is inherently individual and personal. Social motives for religiousness and structured practices have been characterized as "extrinsic" and as lacking in formative significance. We argue that this view is most applicable in American Protestant religions, and hence existing religious motivation sca…
Measuring Religiousness in Health Research
When Patients Say, “It’s in God’s Hands.”
arrived at the hospital by ambulance after the sudden onset of right-sided weakness and difficulty finding words while he was at his construction work site
Episcopal Measure of Faith Tradition
Religiosity is an Important Part of Coping with Grief in Pregnancy After a Traumatic Second Trimester Loss
“It’s Medically Proven!”
Spirituality and Psychiatry
Objective Changes in the occurrence of gastro-oesophageal reflux symptoms (GORS) in the population remain uncertain. This study aimed to determine the prevalence changes, the incidence and the spontaneous loss of GORS. Design This population-based cohort study was conducted within the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study (the HUNT study), a longitudinal series of population-based health surveys in Nord-Trøndelag County, Norway. The study base encompassed …
Recollections of Childhood Religious Identity and Behavior as a Function of Adult Religiousness
People have a strong motivation to maintain a self-concept that is coherent and consistent over time. Religion is an central source of social identity for many people, but its importance is prone to dramatic change across the life course. To maintain a consistent perception of self, recollections of one's own past religiousness may shift to better fit with the present. This study examined changes between early and middle adulthood in retrospectiv…
The Role of Military and Veterans Affairs Chaplains in the Treatment of Alcohol Problems
Chaplaincy and Mental Health in the Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense
Chaplains play important roles in caring for Veterans and Service members with mental health problems. As part of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Department of Defense (DoD) Integrated Mental Health Strategy, we used a sequential approach to examining intersections between chaplaincy and mental health by gathering and building upon: 1) input from key subject matter experts; 2) quantitative data from the VA / DoD Chaplain Survey (N = 2…
The Clergy Occupational Distress Index (Codi)
Evidence-Based Chaplaincy Care
Leaders in health care chaplaincy and practice guidelines, such as the Association of Professional Chaplains' Standards of Practice, call for chaplains to develop an evidence-based approach to their work. The extent to which practicing chaplains accept this new paradigm is unclear. The aim of this study was to gather information regarding chaplains' attitudes and practices with respect to evidence-based chaplaincy care. Data for the study came fr…
A Conceptual Model for the Translation of Bioethics Research and Scholarship
While the bioethics literature demonstrates that the field has spent substantial time and thought over the last four decades on the goals, methods, and desired outcomes for service and training in bioethics, there has been less progress defining the nature and goals of bioethics research and scholarship. This gap makes it difficult both to describe the breadth and depth of these areas of bioethics and, importantly, to gauge their success. However…
Moral Injury
Collaborative spiritual care for moral injury in the veterans Affairs Healthcare System (VA)
The psychospiritual nature of moral injury invites consideration regarding how chaplains understand the construct and provide care. To identify how chaplains in the VA Healthcare System conceptualize moral injury, we conducted an anonymous online survey (N = 361; 45% response rate). Chaplains responded to a battery of items and provided free-text definitions of moral injury that generally aligned with key elements in the existing literature, thou…
Validation of the Moral Injury Outcome Scale in acute care nurses
The MIOS is valid and reliable in acute care nursing populations and demonstrates sound psychometric properties. Scores among nurses diverge from those of military personnel in areas that may inform distinctions in interventions to address moral injury in these populations
Increasing chaplain support for veterans at high risk for suicide through targeted outreach
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has prioritized improving the identification of veterans at risk for suicide and ensuring adequate staffing of personnel to assist veterans in need. It is imperative that suicide prevention efforts make use of the full range of available resources, including diverse professionals with distinctive skillsets. Chaplains are engaged in suicide prevention efforts in VA, but the literature lacks examples of chapl…
Psychology (18 works) · Medicine (16 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (16 works) · Political science (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Nursing (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (5 works) · Law (5 works)