title: Hospitalized Asian patients and their spiritual needs: developing a model of spiritual care.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  A paucity of research has examined the relationship between addressing the spiritual needs of hospitalized Asians and their overall satisfaction with service provision. This study examined this relationship, in tandem with the effects of eight potential mediators, to develop a model of spiritual care for older hospitalized Asians.
  
  
  METHODS
  Structural equation modeling was used with a national sample of Asians (N = 805), age 50 and above, who were consecutively discharged from hospitals over a 12-month period.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The relationship between spiritual needs and satisfaction was fully mediated by five variables: nurses, physicians, the discharge process, visitors, and the admissions process.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  As the first study to develop and test a model of spiritual care for older hospitalized Asians, the findings provide practitioners with the information to target their efforts on the most important organizational areas that facilitate more effective, culturally relevant service delivery to members of this population.
authors.affiliation: School of Social Work, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
authors.forename: David R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Hodge
authors.forename: Fei
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Robert J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Wolosin
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D044466:Asian People / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D020380:Needs Assessment; D017060:Patient Satisfaction / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D029181:Spirituality
keywords: Asians; hospitalization; religion; spiritual needs; spirituality