Struan Sinclair
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 102537 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Struan Sinclair |
| PRENOMES | Struan |
| SOBRENOME | Sinclair |
| ASSINATURA | SINCLAIR S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Calgary |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4542-9911 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
A feasibility study of an Evidence-informed, Competency-based, Accredited, Compassion Training (EnACT) program
OBJECTIVES: This study assessed the feasibility and impact of an Evidence-informed, Competency-based, Accredited, Compassion Training (EnACT) program on both healthcare providers' confidence and competence in compassion, professional fulfillment, and burnout; and patients' experiences of compassion. DESIGN: A two arm non-randomized controlled feasibility trial to evaluate the feasibility and impact of the program over a nine-month period. SETTING…
Exploring spiritual health practitioners’ roles and activities in critical care contexts
Family members of patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) experience multidimensional distress. Many clinicians lack an understanding of spiritual health practitioners' role and approaches to providing spiritual support. Through semi-structured interviews and focus groups with 10 spiritual health practitioners, we explored how spiritual health practitioners support families of patients in the ICU to better understand their scope of pra…
In Reply to Naik
We thank Naik for their comments on our review and agree that the voices of patients—the recipients of compassion—are strikingly absent in the evaluation of current and future physicians’ clinical competencies, including their competency in compassion. Naik provides compelling reasons for why patients’ feedback should be more prominent in medical education. So why, in a world of patient-orientated research and patient-centered care, has integrati…
“I definitely felt like I was there”
We examine how 20 university students interacted with a virtual Residential School that was designed in partnership with a group of Indigenous Survivors of Canada’s Residential Schools system. We begin by offering a brief history of Canada’s Residential Schools system as well as the origins and ambitions of the Embodying Empathy project. We also reflect on the idea of empathy as it has been taken up both in the design and testing phases of the pr…
Challenges and Enablers of Spiritual Care for Family Members of Patients in the Intensive Care Unit
Spiritual care has been recognized as important to family members of critically ill patients, although it is often not integrated within clinical practice. We conducted focus groups and interviews with family members, spiritual health practitioners, and clinicians who work in the intensive care unit (ICU) to explore their experiences of working with family members experiencing spiritual distress in this setting. Challenges and factors that enable…
South Asian patients’ perceptions and experiences of compassion in healthcare
Background: South Asians are one of the fastest growing ethnic populations in Western countries. Accordingly, providing culturally sensitive healthcare to South Asians is becoming increasingly important. Compassion is a key component of quality healthcare and is central to bridging ethnic and cultural differences between patients and their healthcare providers (HCP). Objective: We aimed to identify and describe the perspectives, experiences, impo…
Risky Times and Spaces
In this article, we examine how the logic of genocide prevention aligns with a settler colonial logic of elimination. We examine how the exclusion of cultural techniques of destruction from consideration contributes to the logic of elimination, and we suggest this is, in part, a structural problem built into the logic of genocide prevention. Along these lines, we interrogate linear and molar approaches to genocide prevention and propose, in addit…
Patient-Oriented Research and Grounded Theory
Creating evidence that is both scientifically rigorous and patient oriented in addressing patients' needs is essential to informing health-care professionals' practice and meeting patient needs. Patient-oriented research (POR) aims to address this 2-fold mandate by engaging and incorporating patients' voices throughout the research process through a variety of techniques. Currently, there is little methodological rigor or guidance to help qualita…
Health Care Chaplaincy
There is a growing body of evidence investigating chaplaincy services. The purpose of this scoping review was to examine the empirical literature specific to the role of chaplaincy within health care published since 2009. Electronic searches of four databases were conducted in August 2015. After screening, 48 studies were retained and reviewed. Four themes emerged: experiences and perceptions of the health care chaplain (n = 15), chaplain practic…
Holding On and Letting Go
Although grief and family caregiving have been extensively studied, there exists limited knowledge of anticipatory grief as it relates to families’ transition in illness to bereavement. Evidence suggests the need for a deeper understanding of the role that anticipatory grief plays to support families’ quality of life. The process of understanding is so embedded within our human nature that it is often left invisible in its everydayness. This qual…
Integrating Spirituality as a Key Component of Patient Care
Patient care frequently focuses on physical aspects of disease management, with variable attention given to spiritual needs. And yet, patients indicate that spiritual suffering adds to distress associated with illness. Spirituality, broadly defined as that which gives meaning and purpose to a person's life and connectedness to the significant or sacred, often becomes a central issue for patients. Growing evidence demonstrates that spirituality is…
Outcomes for Professional Health Care Chaplaincy
Health care in industrialized countries is increasingly focused on outcomes (Department of Health, 2013). The reasons for this focus are complex and contextualized but adopting this new currency is
Integrating Spirituality as a Key Component of Patient Care
Patient care frequently focuses on physical aspects of disease management, with variable attention given to spiritual needs. And yet, patients indicate that spiritual suffering adds to distress associated with illness. Spirituality, broadly defined as that which gives meaning and purpose to a person's life and connectedness to the significant or sacred, often becomes a central issue for patients. Growing evidence demonstrates that spirituality is…
Risky Times and Spaces
In this article, we examine how the logic of genocide prevention aligns with a settler colonial logic of elimination. We examine how the exclusion of cultural techniques of destruction from consideration contributes to the logic of elimination, and we suggest this is, in part, a structural problem built into the logic of genocide prevention. Along these lines, we interrogate linear and molar approaches to genocide prevention and propose, in addit…
Patient-Oriented Research and Grounded Theory
Creating evidence that is both scientifically rigorous and patient oriented in addressing patients' needs is essential to informing health-care professionals' practice and meeting patient needs. Patient-oriented research (POR) aims to address this 2-fold mandate by engaging and incorporating patients' voices throughout the research process through a variety of techniques. Currently, there is little methodological rigor or guidance to help qualita…
Outcomes for Professional Health Care Chaplaincy
Health care in industrialized countries is increasingly focused on outcomes (Department of Health, 2013). The reasons for this focus are complex and contextualized but adopting this new currency is
Holding On and Letting Go
Although grief and family caregiving have been extensively studied, there exists limited knowledge of anticipatory grief as it relates to families’ transition in illness to bereavement. Evidence suggests the need for a deeper understanding of the role that anticipatory grief plays to support families’ quality of life. The process of understanding is so embedded within our human nature that it is often left invisible in its everydayness. This qual…
Integrating Spirituality as a Key Component of Patient Care
Patient care frequently focuses on physical aspects of disease management, with variable attention given to spiritual needs. And yet, patients indicate that spiritual suffering adds to distress associated with illness. Spirituality, broadly defined as that which gives meaning and purpose to a person's life and connectedness to the significant or sacred, often becomes a central issue for patients. Growing evidence demonstrates that spirituality is…
Health Care Chaplaincy
There is a growing body of evidence investigating chaplaincy services. The purpose of this scoping review was to examine the empirical literature specific to the role of chaplaincy within health care published since 2009. Electronic searches of four databases were conducted in August 2015. After screening, 48 studies were retained and reviewed. Four themes emerged: experiences and perceptions of the health care chaplain (n = 15), chaplain practic…
Risky Times and Spaces
In this article, we examine how the logic of genocide prevention aligns with a settler colonial logic of elimination. We examine how the exclusion of cultural techniques of destruction from consideration contributes to the logic of elimination, and we suggest this is, in part, a structural problem built into the logic of genocide prevention. Along these lines, we interrogate linear and molar approaches to genocide prevention and propose, in addit…
Patient-Oriented Research and Grounded Theory
Creating evidence that is both scientifically rigorous and patient oriented in addressing patients' needs is essential to informing health-care professionals' practice and meeting patient needs. Patient-oriented research (POR) aims to address this 2-fold mandate by engaging and incorporating patients' voices throughout the research process through a variety of techniques. Currently, there is little methodological rigor or guidance to help qualita…
Challenges and Enablers of Spiritual Care for Family Members of Patients in the Intensive Care Unit
Spiritual care has been recognized as important to family members of critically ill patients, although it is often not integrated within clinical practice. We conducted focus groups and interviews with family members, spiritual health practitioners, and clinicians who work in the intensive care unit (ICU) to explore their experiences of working with family members experiencing spiritual distress in this setting. Challenges and factors that enable…
South Asian patients’ perceptions and experiences of compassion in healthcare
Background: South Asians are one of the fastest growing ethnic populations in Western countries. Accordingly, providing culturally sensitive healthcare to South Asians is becoming increasingly important. Compassion is a key component of quality healthcare and is central to bridging ethnic and cultural differences between patients and their healthcare providers (HCP). Objective: We aimed to identify and describe the perspectives, experiences, impo…
Exploring spiritual health practitioners’ roles and activities in critical care contexts
Family members of patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) experience multidimensional distress. Many clinicians lack an understanding of spiritual health practitioners' role and approaches to providing spiritual support. Through semi-structured interviews and focus groups with 10 spiritual health practitioners, we explored how spiritual health practitioners support families of patients in the ICU to better understand their scope of pra…
In Reply to Naik
We thank Naik for their comments on our review and agree that the voices of patients—the recipients of compassion—are strikingly absent in the evaluation of current and future physicians’ clinical competencies, including their competency in compassion. Naik provides compelling reasons for why patients’ feedback should be more prominent in medical education. So why, in a world of patient-orientated research and patient-centered care, has integrati…
“I definitely felt like I was there”
We examine how 20 university students interacted with a virtual Residential School that was designed in partnership with a group of Indigenous Survivors of Canada’s Residential Schools system. We begin by offering a brief history of Canada’s Residential Schools system as well as the origins and ambitions of the Embodying Empathy project. We also reflect on the idea of empathy as it has been taken up both in the design and testing phases of the pr…
A feasibility study of an Evidence-informed, Competency-based, Accredited, Compassion Training (EnACT) program
OBJECTIVES: This study assessed the feasibility and impact of an Evidence-informed, Competency-based, Accredited, Compassion Training (EnACT) program on both healthcare providers' confidence and competence in compassion, professional fulfillment, and burnout; and patients' experiences of compassion. DESIGN: A two arm non-randomized controlled feasibility trial to evaluate the feasibility and impact of the program over a nine-month period. SETTING…
Psychology (10 obras) · Health care (8 obras) · Medicine (8 obras) · Nursing (7 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (6 obras) · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (5 obras) · Psychotherapist (4 obras) · Alternative medicine (3 obras)