Daniel H Grossoehme
Biographic Data
| ID | 6515065 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel H Grossoehme |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel H |
| FAMILY NAME | Grossoehme |
| SIGNATURE | GROSSOEHME D H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5654-0693 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Proof of concept, feasibility, and acceptability of spiritual care assessment and intervention-pediatric with caregivers of children receiving home mechanical ventilation
Caregivers of children with medical complexity face daily tasks comparable to pediatric critical care nursing with multiple stressors. This may result in emotional and spiritual distress. Caregivers may also rely on their religion and spirituality to cope. Chaplains have the potential to support caregivers in this setting, beginning with spiritual assessment. This study's purpose was to verify the feasibility and acceptability of the Spiritual Ca…
Chaplains and telechaplaincy: Best practices, strengths, weaknesses—a national study
Telechaplaincy is the use of telecommunications and virtual technology to deliver religious/spiritual care. It has been used for decades, but chaplains' understanding of telehealth lags behind other disciplines. The purpose of this study was to describe the use of telechaplaincy in the United States and chaplains' perceptions of the practice. Researchers surveyed chaplains through chaplain-certifying-body email-listservs, then conducted in-depth …
Introduction to the special issue “Moral injury care: Practices and collaboration”
End of Life Therapeutic Videography in Pediatrics: Feasibility and Acceptability
Purpose : This study aimed to determine the feasibility and acceptability of using videography to alleviate the stress of anticipatory mourning in pediatric palliative care patients. A secondary aim was to expand palliative/end of life care research by performing a more comprehensive examination of children's experiences with life-shortening illness. Methods : Eligible patients ages eight and older made a legacy video with the assistance of inves…
Parental Use of Religion and Spirituality in Medical Decision-Making
New medical technology has extended children's lives, creating challenges for parental decision-making. Many parents utilize religion or spirituality (R/S). This study examined the semi-structured interviews of 24 parents who made significant medical decisions. Major domains included drawing on guidance from an internal or personal R/S source; some described making decisions by surrendering decision-making agency to the Divine; being guided by be…
Developing a theoretically grounded, digital, ecological momentary intervention for parental bereavement care using the Orbit model—Phase 1
Current models of bereavement care do not address all of bereaved parents' unique needs. Diverse challenges limit parents' ability to access certain bereavement services. A web-based intervention prototype for bereaved parents was developed. Using convenience and snowball techniques, 14 participants (pediatric providers, software developers, and bereaved parents) were enrolled in a descriptive, cross-sectional feasibility and usability study. Whi…
Adults with cystic fibrosis: Spiritual coping with lifelong disease
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a chronic life-shortening disease requiring significant coping. Spiritual belief relates to treatment behaviors. Little is known about spirituality's role in adults diagnosed as children, nor how it compares with adults diagnosed as adults. Adults over 18 years, diagnosed as children completed a questionnaire; some were randomized to also participate in an interview or daily phone diary to measure adherence. Qualitative an…
Transgender youth and oral health: A qualitative study
Transgender youth face several comorbidities with oral health implications, including depression, harmful eating behaviors, and pharmaceutical side-effects. No information exists on how transgender youth view oral health or how they interface with oral health providers. The purpose of this study was to elicit experiences, knowledge, and perceptions of oral health among transgender youth and their caregivers. This was a qualitative study using in-…
Feasibility and Acceptability of a Telephone-Based Chaplaincy Intervention to Decrease Parental Spiritual Struggle
Documenting an epidemic of suffering: Low health-related quality of life among transgender youth
Use of the Daily Phone Diary to Study Religiosity and Mood: Convergent Validity
Studies of religious/spiritual behavior frequently rely on self-reported questionnaire data, which is susceptible to bias. The Daily Phone Diary (DPD) was developed to minimize bias in reporting activities and behavior across a 24-hour period. A cross-sectional study of 126 parents of children with cystic fibrosis was used to establish the validity of the DPD to study religious/spiritual behaviors. Longitudinal models were used to determine the o…
International Study of Chaplains’ Attitudes About Research
An online survey was conducted by twelve professional chaplain organizations to assess chaplains' attitudes about and involvement in research. A total of 2,092 chaplains from 23 countries responded to the survey. Over 80% thought research was definitely important and nearly 70% thought chaplains should definitely be research literate. Just over 40% said they regularly read research articles and almost 60% said they occasionally did. The responden…
Body Sanctification and Sleep in Adolescents with Cystic Fibrosis: A Pilot Study
Analyzing longitudinal qualitative data: The application of trajectory and recurrent cross-sectional approaches
BACKGROUND: Longitudinal qualitative research methods can add depth and understanding to health care research, especially on topics such as chronic conditions, adherence and changing health policies. In this manuscript we describe when and how to undertake two different applied approaches to analyzing longitudinal qualitative data: a recurrent cross-sectional approach and a trajectory approach. RESULTS: A recurrent cross-sectional approach is mos…
Screening for Spiritual Struggle in an Adolescent Transgender Clinic: Feasibility and Acceptability
Spiritual struggles are associated with poorer health outcomes, including depression, which has higher prevalence among transgender individuals than the general population. This study's objective was to improve the quality of care in an outpatient transgender clinic by screening patients and caregivers for spiritual struggle and future intervention. The quality improvement questions addressed were whether screening for spiritual struggle was feas…
“A Remarkable Experience of God, Shaping Us as a Family”: Parents’ Use of Faith Following Child's Rare Disease Diagnosis
A child's chronic illness can lead parents to utilize different types of coping, including religious beliefs and practices. Previous studies have generally focused on life-shortening diagnoses. The present study explored parental use of faith when the diagnosis was not life-shortening, using grounded-theory qualitative methodology. Data were collected using semi-structured telephone interviews with N = 12 parents of children diagnosed with Neuroe…
Testing the Feasibility and Acceptability of a Chaplaincy Intervention to Improving Treatment Attitudes and Self-Efficacy of Adolescents With Cystic Fibrosis: A Pilot Study
Religious factors are known to contribute to treatment adherence in different patient populations, and religious coping has been found to be particularly important to adolescents dealing with chronic diseases. Adherence to prescribed treatments slows disease progression and contributes to desirable outcomes in most patients, and, therefore, adherence-promoting interventions provided by chaplains could be beneficial to various patient populations.…
Increased Congregational Support for Parents of Children with Cystic Fibrosis
Overview of Qualitative Research
Qualitative research methods are a robust tool for chaplaincy research questions. Similar to much of chaplaincy clinical care, qualitative research generally works with written texts, often transcriptions of individual interviews or focus group conversations and seeks to understand the meaning of experience in a study sample. This article describes three common methodologies: ethnography, grounded theory, and phenomenology. Issues to consider rel…
Should My Provider Pray with Me? Perspectives of Urban Adolescents with Asthma on Addressing Religious and Spiritual Issues in Hypothetical Clinical Settings
Dyadic Adjustment and Spiritual Activities in Parents of Children with Cystic Fibrosis
Children's diseases can negatively impact marital adjustment and contribute to poorer child health outcomes. To cope with increased marital stress and childhood diseases severity, many people turn to spirituality. While most studies show a positive relationship between spirituality and marital adjustment, spirituality has typically been measured only in terms of individual behaviors. Using the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS) and Daily Phone Diary d…
Use and Sanctification of Complementary and Alternative Medicine by Parents of Children with Cystic Fibrosis
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use, including spiritual modalities, is common in pediatric chronic diseases. However, few users discuss CAM treatments with their child's physician. Semi-structured interviews of 25 parents of children who have cystic fibrosis (CF) were completed. Primary themes were identified by thematic analyses. Most parents (19/25) used at least one CAM modality with their child. Only two reported discussing CAM …
“I Honestly Believe God Keeps me Healthy so I Can Take Care of My Child”: Parental Use of Faith Related to Treatment Adherence
A limited number of studies address parental faith and its relationship to their children's health. Using cystic fibrosis as a disease exemplar in which religion/spirituality have been shown to play a role and parental health behaviors (adherence to their child's daily recommended home treatments) are important, this study explored whether parents with different levels of adherence would describe use of faith differently. Twenty-five interviews w…
Is Adolescents' Religious Coping with Cystic Fibrosis Associated with the Rate of Decline in Pulmonary Function?—A Preliminary Study
Religious coping is associated with health outcomes in adolescents with chronic disease. Identifying potentially modifiable spiritual factors is important for improving health outcomes. The purpose of this study was to determine if associations exist between rate of change in pulmonary function and subsequent religious coping by adolescents with cystic fibrosis (CF). Retrospective cohort design employing the Brief R-COPE and calculated decline in…
Chaplaincy and Narrative Theory: A Response to Risk's Case Study
Transgender youth and oral health: A qualitative study
Transgender youth face several comorbidities with oral health implications, including depression, harmful eating behaviors, and pharmaceutical side-effects. No information exists on how transgender youth view oral health or how they interface with oral health providers. The purpose of this study was to elicit experiences, knowledge, and perceptions of oral health among transgender youth and their caregivers. This was a qualitative study using in-…
Taking Intercessory Prayer and Science Seriously
Spirituality's Role in Chronic Disease Self-Management: Sanctification of the Body in Families Dealing With Cystic Fibrosis
Sanctifying the Body (imbuing the body and its care with spiritual significance) is associated with pro-healthy behaviors and may be associated with adherence in families with chronic diseases. Our objective was to determine this construct's relevance to cystic fibrosis (CF) families and test the reliability and validity of a shortened Sanctification measure. The "Sacred Qualities of the Body" and ''Manifestation of God in the Body" scales were c…
We Can Handle This: Parents' Use of Religion in the First Year Following Their Child's Diagnosis with Cystic Fibrosis
The diagnosis of a child's life-shortening disease leads many American parents to utilize religious beliefs. Models relating religious constructs to health have been proposed. Still lacking are inductive models based on parent experience. The specific aims of this study were: 1. develop a grounded theory of parental use of religion in the year after diagnosis; 2. describe whether parents understand a relationship between their religious beliefs a…
Parents' Religious Coping Styles in the First Year After Their Child's Cystic Fibrosis Diagnosis
Parents of children diagnosed with cystic fibrosis described it as "devastating." Given religion's importance to many Americans, parents may utilize religious coping. Relatively little is known about parents' use of religious coping to handle their child's illness. Interviews with 15 parents about their use of religion in the year following their child's cystic fibrosis diagnosis were coded for religious coping styles. Sixteen styles were identif…
Written prayers in a pediatric hospital: Linguistic analysis
Previous research suggests that written prayers have linguistic characteristics similar to written emotional self-disclosures, and may also confer their health benefits. This study’s aim was to test that hypothesis in a clinical setting; a secondary aim was analysis of prayer content. Written prayers in a pediatric hospital chapel were collected (N 800). Linguistic analysis provided the percentages of word types previously associated with health …
Research as a Chaplaincy Intervention
I walked into the outpatient pulmonary clinic to pay a father of one of our patients the reimbursement for his time and effort in participating in a qualitative research study I was leading. As I g
We were Chosen as a Family: Parents’ Evolving Use of Religion when Their Child has Cystic Fibrosis
Written prayers and religious coping in a paediatric hospital setting
Hospitalised children represent a threatened future to parents. Such stressors call forth people's coping styles. Some individuals cope religiously or spiritually, and religious coping through prayer may be utilised. A sample of prayers written in a paediatric hospital chapel was coded by styles of religious coping evident within them. Styles associated with coping to gain control of their situation and with coping by seeking comfort from God wer…
Using Spirituality After an Adult CF Diagnosis: Cognitive Reframing and Adherence Motivation
Chronic illness is a significant stressor; the majority of Americans cope utilizing spirituality. Numerous studies demonstrate links between spiritual coping and health outcomes. The purpose of this study was to determine whether persons diagnosed with cystic fibrosis (CF) as adults use spirituality to cope and influence disease management. Semi-structured interviews were completed and analyzed using grounded theory. Data saturation was reached f…
Use and Sanctification of Complementary and Alternative Medicine by Parents of Children with Cystic Fibrosis
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use, including spiritual modalities, is common in pediatric chronic diseases. However, few users discuss CAM treatments with their child's physician. Semi-structured interviews of 25 parents of children who have cystic fibrosis (CF) were completed. Primary themes were identified by thematic analyses. Most parents (19/25) used at least one CAM modality with their child. Only two reported discussing CAM …
“I Honestly Believe God Keeps me Healthy so I Can Take Care of My Child”: Parental Use of Faith Related to Treatment Adherence
A limited number of studies address parental faith and its relationship to their children's health. Using cystic fibrosis as a disease exemplar in which religion/spirituality have been shown to play a role and parental health behaviors (adherence to their child's daily recommended home treatments) are important, this study explored whether parents with different levels of adherence would describe use of faith differently. Twenty-five interviews w…
Is Adolescents' Religious Coping with Cystic Fibrosis Associated with the Rate of Decline in Pulmonary Function?—A Preliminary Study
Religious coping is associated with health outcomes in adolescents with chronic disease. Identifying potentially modifiable spiritual factors is important for improving health outcomes. The purpose of this study was to determine if associations exist between rate of change in pulmonary function and subsequent religious coping by adolescents with cystic fibrosis (CF). Retrospective cohort design employing the Brief R-COPE and calculated decline in…
Chaplaincy and Narrative Theory: A Response to Risk's Case Study
Overview of Qualitative Research
Qualitative research methods are a robust tool for chaplaincy research questions. Similar to much of chaplaincy clinical care, qualitative research generally works with written texts, often transcriptions of individual interviews or focus group conversations and seeks to understand the meaning of experience in a study sample. This article describes three common methodologies: ethnography, grounded theory, and phenomenology. Issues to consider rel…
Should My Provider Pray with Me? Perspectives of Urban Adolescents with Asthma on Addressing Religious and Spiritual Issues in Hypothetical Clinical Settings
Dyadic Adjustment and Spiritual Activities in Parents of Children with Cystic Fibrosis
Children's diseases can negatively impact marital adjustment and contribute to poorer child health outcomes. To cope with increased marital stress and childhood diseases severity, many people turn to spirituality. While most studies show a positive relationship between spirituality and marital adjustment, spirituality has typically been measured only in terms of individual behaviors. Using the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS) and Daily Phone Diary d…
“A Remarkable Experience of God, Shaping Us as a Family”: Parents’ Use of Faith Following Child's Rare Disease Diagnosis
A child's chronic illness can lead parents to utilize different types of coping, including religious beliefs and practices. Previous studies have generally focused on life-shortening diagnoses. The present study explored parental use of faith when the diagnosis was not life-shortening, using grounded-theory qualitative methodology. Data were collected using semi-structured telephone interviews with N = 12 parents of children diagnosed with Neuroe…
Testing the Feasibility and Acceptability of a Chaplaincy Intervention to Improving Treatment Attitudes and Self-Efficacy of Adolescents With Cystic Fibrosis: A Pilot Study
Religious factors are known to contribute to treatment adherence in different patient populations, and religious coping has been found to be particularly important to adolescents dealing with chronic diseases. Adherence to prescribed treatments slows disease progression and contributes to desirable outcomes in most patients, and, therefore, adherence-promoting interventions provided by chaplains could be beneficial to various patient populations.…
Increased Congregational Support for Parents of Children with Cystic Fibrosis
Analyzing longitudinal qualitative data: The application of trajectory and recurrent cross-sectional approaches
BACKGROUND: Longitudinal qualitative research methods can add depth and understanding to health care research, especially on topics such as chronic conditions, adherence and changing health policies. In this manuscript we describe when and how to undertake two different applied approaches to analyzing longitudinal qualitative data: a recurrent cross-sectional approach and a trajectory approach. RESULTS: A recurrent cross-sectional approach is mos…
Screening for Spiritual Struggle in an Adolescent Transgender Clinic: Feasibility and Acceptability
Spiritual struggles are associated with poorer health outcomes, including depression, which has higher prevalence among transgender individuals than the general population. This study's objective was to improve the quality of care in an outpatient transgender clinic by screening patients and caregivers for spiritual struggle and future intervention. The quality improvement questions addressed were whether screening for spiritual struggle was feas…
Use of the Daily Phone Diary to Study Religiosity and Mood: Convergent Validity
Studies of religious/spiritual behavior frequently rely on self-reported questionnaire data, which is susceptible to bias. The Daily Phone Diary (DPD) was developed to minimize bias in reporting activities and behavior across a 24-hour period. A cross-sectional study of 126 parents of children with cystic fibrosis was used to establish the validity of the DPD to study religious/spiritual behaviors. Longitudinal models were used to determine the o…
International Study of Chaplains’ Attitudes About Research
An online survey was conducted by twelve professional chaplain organizations to assess chaplains' attitudes about and involvement in research. A total of 2,092 chaplains from 23 countries responded to the survey. Over 80% thought research was definitely important and nearly 70% thought chaplains should definitely be research literate. Just over 40% said they regularly read research articles and almost 60% said they occasionally did. The responden…
Body Sanctification and Sleep in Adolescents with Cystic Fibrosis: A Pilot Study
Documenting an epidemic of suffering: Low health-related quality of life among transgender youth
Medicine (29 works) · Psychology (29 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (25 works) · Clinical Psychology (15 works) · Nursing (12 works) · Qualitative research (12 works) · Developmental psychology (11 works) · Spirituality (11 works) · Alternative medicine (10 works) · Family and Disability Support Research (10 works)