The Relevance of Patients' Spiritual Care in the Nigerian Cultural Context: A Health Care Chaplain's Perspective. (June 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Aja, Victoria T.
• Is Part Of: Journal of pastoral care & counseling. Volume 73:Number 2(2019:Jun.)
• Page Start: 82
• Page End: 87
• Publication Date: 2019-06
• Subjects: Health care chaplain -- hospital -- Nigeria -- spirituality -- spirituality care; Pastoral theology -- Periodicals; Pastoral care -- Periodicals; Pastoral counseling -- Periodicals; 253.5
• DOI: 10.1177/1542305019852889
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1542-3050

Abstract

In most Nigerian hospitals, there is no evidence of formally employed health care chaplains. Personal experiences of a health care chaplain serving at a faith-based hospital in Nigeria show that the Nigerian cultural context, as it relates to individuals' personal spirituality, as well as the abundant research on the associations between spirituality/religiosity and health, precipitate the need for services of health care chaplains in Nigerian hospitals, whether faith-based, non-faith-based, or government hospitals.