The impact of chaplaincy services in selected hospitals in the eastern United States.
Surveys a stratified sample of patients in six different hospitals and compares their perceptions of hospital chaplaincy and other pastoral care efforts with related hospital services. Reports the presence of a strong impact of pastoral care services and discusses these findings from the perspective of a theory of expressive and instrumental social orientations as explicated by the sociologist Talcott Parsons.
D000704:Analysis of Variance; D002604:Chaplaincy Service, Hospital; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D003625:Data Collection; D006748:Hospital Departments; D014481:United States