Dr. Samantha Meints and the Rev. Dr. Marta Illueca astatine the International Association for the Study of Pain – World Congress of Pain, Toronto, Canada, Sept. 20, 2022
In 2022, with backing from the 2020 United Thank Offering grant, researchers from the Episcopal Church successful Delaware and assorted world aesculapian centers reported findings from a groundbreaking survey that tested a caller psychometric instrument, the Pain-related PRAYER Scale (PPRAYERS) suitable for usage successful objective probe with a peculiar absorption connected chronic symptom patients.
Developed by the Rev. Dr. Marta Illueca, Clergy Medical Liaison from the Diocese of Delaware, and Dr. Samantha Meints, Clinical Psychologist from Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, the standard has undergone preliminary technological validation which is the ground for a pastoral exertion called the “Bedside Prayer Tool.”
This ministry is portion of an innovative “Church and Academia Model,” which is spearheading world probe astatine the intersection of religion and medicine. Other outputs of this multidisciplinary inaugural see the caller work of Rev. Illueca’s insubstantial “Spiritual Pain: A Symptom successful Search of a Clinical Definition” successful the Journal of Religion and Health, successful collaboration with module from the Tufts University School of Medicine. The aforementioned outputs volition assistance to facilitate a moving dialog betwixt pastoral and healthcare practitioners.
With a imaginativeness to physique a span betwixt spirituality and health, aboriginal phases of the Pain and Prayer Project see the improvement of acquisition materials for usage successful the community, and the translation/validation of the PPRAYERS instrumentality into Spanish, with further interinstitutional collaboration to beryllium carried retired successful Latin America. In addition, Rev. Illueca has been formally invited arsenic a stakeholder to the NIH-based INTEGRATE-Pain Consortium Delphi initiative, established “to foster practice and statement successful the tract of symptom research,” which includes the “harmonization of information standards.” For a nexus to the Spiritual Pain nonfiction delight spell to https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10943-022-01645-y.pdf For much accusation spot www.painandprayer.com and to research imaginable collaborations nonstop an email to prayerpain@gmail.com
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