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ArticleJournal of religion and health2022

The NERSH Questionnaire and Pool of Data from 12 Countries: Development and Description.

Niels Christian Hvidt, Farr Curlin, Arndt Büssing, Klaus Baumann, Eckhard Frick, Jens Søndergaard, Jesper Bo Nielsen, Ryan Lawrence, Giancarlo Lucchetti, Parameshwaran Ramakrishnan and 4 more

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Article in Journal of religion and health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Niels Christian HvidtResearch Unit of General Practice, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark. nchvidt@health.sdu.dk.
Farr CurlinTrent Center for Bioethics, Humanities, and History of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
Arndt BüssingFaculty of Medicine, Institute of Integrative Medicine, Witten/Herdecke University, Herdecke, Gerhard-Kienle-Weg 4, 58313, Herdecke, Germany.
Klaus BaumannCaritas Science and Christian Social Work, Faculty of Theology, Freiburg University, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
Eckhard FrickDepartment of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Research Centre Spiritual Care, The University Hospital Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Langerstr. 3, 81675, Munich, Germany.
Jens SøndergaardResearch Unit of General Practice, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
Jesper Bo NielsenResearch Unit of General Practice, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
Ryan LawrenceDepartment of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA.
Giancarlo LucchettiFederal University of Juiz de Fora, Avenida Eugênio de Nascimento s/n - Aeroporto, Juiz de Fora, MG, 36038330, Brazil.
Parameshwaran RamakrishnanHarvard Divinity School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Inga WermuthMedical Faculty, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
René HeftiMedical Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Eunmi LeeCaritas Science and Christian Social Work, Faculty of Theology, Freiburg University Center for Social Cohesion, Daegu Catholic University, Hayang-Ro 13-13, Hayang-Eup, Gyeongsan-Si, Gyeongbuk, 38430, Republic of Korea.
Alex Kappel KørupResearch Unit of General Practice, Department of Mental Health Kolding-Vejle, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1926-9435

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Modern healthcare research has only in recent years investigated the impact of health care workers' religious and other values on medical practice, interaction with patients, and ethically complex decision making. So far, only limited international data exist on the way such values vary across different countries. We therefore established the NERSH International Collaboration on Values in Medicine with datasets on physician religious characteristics and values based on the same questionnaire. The present article provides (a) an overview of the development of the original and optimized questionnaire, (b) an overview of the content of the NERSH data pool at this stage and (c) a brief review of insights gained from articles published with the questionnaire. The pool at this stage consists of data from 17 studies from research units in 12 different countries representing six continents with responses from more than 6000 health professionals. The joint data pool suggests that there are large differences in religious and other moral values across nations and cultures, and that these values contribute to the observed differences in health professionals' clinical practices-across nations and cultures!

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MoralsPhysiciansAttitude of Health PersonnelHealth PersonnelHumansSpiritualitySurveys and QuestionnairesCommunicationMedical ethicsPhysician valuesReligion and healthSpirituality

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