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| Pastoral Counseling Research Survey | ||
| You are invited to be in a research study on the correlation of pastoral counseling and mental health. You were selected as a possible participant because you are 18 years of age or older and a member of Deliverance Center for all Nations church. Please read this form and ask any questions you may have before agreeing to be in the study. Cynthia Taylor, a doctoral candidate in the School of Divinity at Liberty University, is conducting this study.Background Information: The purpose of this study is to determine if data suggests that members of the church are actively seeking pastoral counseling as an option to address current mental health issues, and if current pastoral counseling has impacted the congregation positively.Procedures: If you agree to be in this study, I would ask you to do the following things:Answer the survey questions provided to the best of your ability.Risks: The risks involved in this study are minimal, which means they are equal to the risks you would encounter in everyday life. Benefits: Participants should not expect to receive a direct benefit from taking part in this study.Compensation: Participants will not be compensated for participating in this study. Confidentiality: Data will be stored on a password locked computer and may be used in future presentations. After three years, all electronic records will be deleted. Voluntary Nature of the Study: Participation in this study is voluntary. Your decision whether or not to participate will not affect your current or future relations with Liberty University. If you decide to participate, you are free to not answer any question or withdraw at any time, prior to submitting the survey, without affecting those relationships. How to Withdraw from the Study: If you choose to withdraw from the study, please exit the survey and close your internet browser. Your responses will not be recorded or included in the study. Contacts and Questions: The researcher conducting this study is Cynthia Taylor. You may ask any questions you have now. If you have questions later, you are encouraged to contact her at [email protected]. You may also contact faculty chair, Dr. Garcia, at [email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this study and would like to talk to someone other than the researcher, you are encouraged to contact the Institutional Review Board, 1971 University Blvd., Green Hall Ste. 2845, Lynchburg, VA 24515 or email at [email protected]. Do you agree to these terms? | ||
| Answer Choices | Responses | |
| Yes, please begin the survey. | 99.06% | 105 |
| No, I would like to exit the survey | 0.94% | 1 |
| Answered | 106 | |
| Skipped | 0 |
You are invited to be in a research study on the correlation of pastoral counseling and mental health. You were selected as a possible participant because you are 18 years of age or older and a member of Deliverance Center for all Nations church. Please read this form and ask any questions you may have before agreeing to be in the study. Cynthia Taylor, a doctoral candidate in the School of Divinity at Liberty University, is conducting this study.Background Information: The purpose of this study is to determine if data suggests that members of the church are actively seeking pastoral counseling as an option to address current mental health issues, and if current pastoral counseling has impacted the congregation positively.Procedures: If you agree to be in this study, I would ask you to do the following things:Answer the survey questions provided to the best of your ability.Risks: The risks involved in this study are minimal, which means they are equal to the risks you would encounter in everyday life. Benefits: Participants should not expect to receive a direct benefit from taking part in this study.Compensation: Participants will not be compensated for participating in this study. Confidentiality: Data will be stored on a password locked computer and may be used in future presentations. After three years, all electronic records will be deleted. Voluntary Nature of the Study: Participation in this study is voluntary. Your decision whether or not to participate will not affect your current or future relations with Liberty University. If you decide to participate, you are free to not answer any question or withdraw at any time, prior to submitting the survey, without affecting those relationships. How to Withdraw from the Study: If you choose to withdraw from the study, please exit the survey and close your internet browser. Your responses will not be recorded or included in the study. Contacts and Questions: The researcher conducting this study is Cynthia Taylor. You may ask any questions you have now. If you have questions later, you are encouraged to contact her at [email protected]. You may also contact faculty chair, Dr. Garcia, at [email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this study and would like to talk to someone other than the researcher, you are encouraged to contact the Institutional Review Board, 1971 University Blvd., Green Hall Ste. 2845, Lynchburg, VA 24515 or email at [email protected]. Do you agree to these terms?
Question 2
| Pastoral Counseling Research Survey | ||
| What is your gender? | ||
| Answer Choices | Responses | |
| Female | 84.91% | 90 |
| Male | 15.09% | 16 |
| Answered | 106 | |
| Skipped | 0 |
What is your gender?
Question 3
| Pastoral Counseling Research Survey | ||
| What is your highest level of education? | ||
| Answer Choices | Responses | |
| Some high school | 21.70% | 23 |
| College graduate | 32.08% | 34 |
| Graduate degree or beyond | 26.42% | 28 |
| Some post-graduate education | 19.81% | 21 |
| Answered | 106 | |
| Skipped | 0 |
What is your highest level of education?
Question 4
| Pastoral Counseling Research Survey | ||
| What is your Ethnic/Racial background? | ||
| Answer Choices | Responses | |
| American Indian or Alaska Native: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintains a tribal affiliation or community attachment. | 0.00% | 0 |
| Asian: A person having origins in any of the original people of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent, for example Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand and Vietnam. | 0.94% | 1 |
| Black or African American: A person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa. | 84.91% | 90 |
| Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. | 0.94% | 1 |
| Hispanic or Latino: A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture of origin, regardless of race | 4.72% | 5 |
| White: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa | 5.66% | 6 |
| N/A | 2.83% | 3 |
| Answered | 106 | |
| Skipped | 0 |
What is your Ethnic/Racial background?
Question 5
| Pastoral Counseling Research Survey | ||
| Have you ever personally struggled with mental illness of any kind? | ||
| Answer Choices | Responses | |
| Yes, and it was diagnosed | 24.00% | 24 |
| Yes, but it was never diagnosed | 24.00% | 24 |
| No | 51.00% | 51 |
| N/A | 1.00% | 1 |
| Answered | 100 | |
| Skipped | 6 |
Have you ever personally struggled with mental illness of any kind?
Question 6
| Pastoral Counseling Research Survey | ||
| Have you ever seen a psychiatrist as a treatment option for your mental health concerns? | ||
| Answer Choices | Responses | |
| Yes | 22.00% | 22 |
| No | 69.00% | 69 |
| N/A | 9.00% | 9 |
| Answered | 100 | |
| Skipped | 6 |
Have you ever seen a psychiatrist as a treatment option for your mental health concerns?
Question 7
| Pastoral Counseling Research Survey | ||
| Have you have seen a psychologist as a treatment option for your mental health concerns? | ||
| Answer Choices | Responses | |
| Yes | 21.00% | 21 |
| No | 68.00% | 68 |
| N/A | 11.00% | 11 |
| Answered | 100 | |
| Skipped | 6 |
Have you have seen a psychologist as a treatment option for your mental health concerns?
Question 8
| Pastoral Counseling Research Survey | ||
| “Have you ever been diagnosed by a medical or psychological professional with any of the following conditions?” | ||
| Answer Choices | Responses | |
| Anxiety Disorders | 26.00% | 26 |
| Bipolar Disorder (Manic-Depressive Illness) | 4.00% | 4 |
| Delusions | 1.00% | 1 |
| Depression | 28.00% | 28 |
| Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) | 2.00% | 2 |
| Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) | 9.00% | 9 |
| Other | 2.00% | 2 |
| None | 57.00% | 57 |
| N/A | 4.00% | 4 |
| Answered | 100 | |
| Skipped | 6 |
“Have you ever been diagnosed by a medical or psychological professional with any of the following conditions?”
Question 9
| Pastoral Counseling Research Survey | ||
| “How would you describe your current status with your mental illness?” | ||
| Answer Choices | Responses | |
| Very Stable | 38.00% | 38 |
| Somewhat Stable | 42.00% | 42 |
| Somewhat Unstable | 8.00% | 8 |
| Very Unstable | 2.00% | 2 |
| N/A | 10.00% | 10 |
| Answered | 100 | |
| Skipped | 6 |
“How would you describe your current status with your mental illness?”
Question 10
| Pastoral Counseling Research Survey | ||
| “My acute mental illness made/makes it difficult to understand redemption.” | ||
| Answer Choices | Responses | |
| Strongly agree | 5.00% | 5 |
| Agree | 10.00% | 10 |
| Neither agree nor disagree | 20.00% | 20 |
| Disagree | 16.00% | 16 |
| Strongly disagree | 20.00% | 20 |
| N/A | 29.00% | 29 |
| Answered | 100 | |
| Skipped | 6 |
“My acute mental illness made/makes it difficult to understand redemption.”
Question 11
| Pastoral Counseling Research Survey | ||
| “I believe a Christian with an acute mental illness can succeed spiritually even if the illness has not been treated.” | ||
| Answer Choices | Responses | |
| Strongly agree | 14.00% | 14 |
| Agree | 18.00% | 18 |
| Neither agree nor disagree | 23.00% | 23 |
| Disagree | 25.00% | 25 |
| Strongly disagree | 10.00% | 10 |
| Don’t Know | 10.00% | 10 |
| Answered | 100 | |
| Skipped | 6 |
“I believe a Christian with an acute mental illness can succeed spiritually even if the illness has not been treated.”
Question 12
| Pastoral Counseling Research Survey | ||
| “My acute mental illness weakens my efforts to live like a Christian.” | ||
| Answer Choices | Responses | |
| Strongly agree | 6.00% | 6 |
| Agree | 8.00% | 8 |
| Neither agree nor disagree | 15.00% | 15 |
| Disagree | 26.00% | 26 |
| Strongly disagree | 17.00% | 17 |
| N/A | 28.00% | 28 |
| Answered | 100 | |
| Skipped | 6 |
“My acute mental illness weakens my efforts to live like a Christian.”
Question 13
| Pastoral Counseling Research Survey | ||
| Have you ever sought pastoral counseling as a treatment option for your mental health concerns? | ||
| Answer Choices | Responses | |
| Yes | 15.05% | 14 |
| No | 84.95% | 79 |
| Answered | 93 | |
| Skipped | 13 |
Have you ever sought pastoral counseling as a treatment option for your mental health concerns?
Question 14
| Pastoral Counseling Research Survey | ||
| If so, when was the last counseling session? | ||
| Answer Choices | Responses | |
| One month or less | 3.23% | 3 |
| Two to six months ago | 2.15% | 2 |
| Six to Twelve months ago | 3.23% | 3 |
| More than a year ago | 7.53% | 7 |
| N/A | 83.87% | 78 |
| Answered | 93 | |
| Skipped | 13 |
If so, when was the last counseling session?
Question 15
| Pastoral Counseling Research Survey | ||
| Do you agree that pastoral counseling sessions are beneficial in your treatment plan? | ||
| Answer Choices | Responses | |
| Strongly agree | 12.90% | 12 |
| Agree | 20.43% | 19 |
| Neither agree nor disagree | 16.13% | 15 |
| Disagree | 6.45% | 6 |
| Strongly disagree | 1.08% | 1 |
| N/A | 43.01% | 40 |
| Answered | 93 | |
| Skipped | 13 |
Do you agree that pastoral counseling sessions are beneficial in your treatment plan?
Question 16
| Pastoral Counseling Research Survey | ||
| Following the last pastoral counseling session, do you agree that there are recurrent struggles with your mental illness? | ||
| Answer Choices | Responses | |
| Strongly agree | 3.23% | 3 |
| Agree | 7.53% | 7 |
| Neither agree nor disagree | 15.05% | 14 |
| Disagree | 3.23% | 3 |
| Strongly disagree | 5.38% | 5 |
| N/A | 65.59% | 61 |
| Answered | 93 | |
| Skipped | 13 |
Following the last pastoral counseling session, do you agree that there are recurrent struggles with your mental illness?
Question 17
| Pastoral Counseling Research Survey | ||
| Have the symptoms of your mental health impairment improved since your last pastoral counseling session? | ||
| Answer Choices | Responses | |
| Strongly agree | 2.15% | 2 |
| Agree | 6.45% | 6 |
| Neither agree nor disagree | 8.60% | 8 |
| Disagree | 5.38% | 5 |
| Strongly disagree | 3.23% | 3 |
| N/A | 74.19% | 69 |
| Answered | 93 | |
| Skipped | 13 |
Have the symptoms of your mental health impairment improved since your last pastoral counseling session?
Question 18
| Pastoral Counseling Research Survey | ||
| Do you agree others would benefit from pastoral counseling as a treatment option for mental illness? | ||
| Answer Choices | Responses | |
| Strongly agree | 18.28% | 17 |
| Agree | 31.18% | 29 |
| Neither agree nor disagree | 36.56% | 34 |
| Disagree | 8.60% | 8 |
| Strongly disagree | 5.38% | 5 |
| Answered | 93 | |
| Skipped | 13 |
Do you agree others would benefit from pastoral counseling as a treatment option for mental illness?
Question 19
| Pastoral Counseling Research Survey | ||
| “As I have dealt with mental illness, I have found the local church to be” | ||
| Answer Choices | Responses | |
| Mostly Supportive | 10.75% | 10 |
| Somewhat Supportive | 17.20% | 16 |
| Neither Supportive nor Unsupportive | 7.53% | 7 |
| Somewhat Unsupportive | 4.30% | 4 |
| Mostly Unsupportive | 2.15% | 2 |
| Don’t Know | 15.05% | 14 |
| N/A | 43.01% | 40 |
| Answered | 93 | |
| Skipped | 13 |
“As I have dealt with mental illness, I have found the local church to be”
Question 20
| Pastoral Counseling Research Survey | ||
| Counseling sessions with my pastor haves explicitly helped me think through and live out my faith in the context of my mental illness.” | ||
| Answer Choices | Responses | |
| Strongly agree | 8.60% | 8 |
| Agree | 7.53% | 7 |
| Neither agree nor disagree | 11.83% | 11 |
| Disagree | 1.08% | 1 |
| Strongly disagree | 0.00% | 0 |
| Don’t Know | 7.53% | 7 |
| N/A | 63.44% | 59 |
| Answered | 93 | |
| Skipped | 13 |
Counseling sessions with my pastor haves explicitly helped me think through and live out my faith in the context of my mental illness.”
Question 21
| Pastoral Counseling Research Survey | |||
| Free Response: May select multiple answers: Do you believe local churches should assist individuals with acute mental illness in any of the following areas?” | |||
| Answer Choices | Responses | ||
| Help families find local resources for support and dealing with the illness | 78.49% | 73 | |
| Talk about it openly so that the topic is not so taboo | 72.04% | 67 | |
| Improve people's understanding of what mental illness is and what to expect | 69.89% | 65 | |
| Increase awareness of how prevalent mental illness is today | 68.82% | 64 | |
| Provide training for the church to understand mental illness | 65.59% | 61 | |
| Offer topical seminars on depression or anxiety | 58.06% | 54 | |
| Have a counselor on staff skilled in mental illness | 66.67% | 62 | |
| Don't know | 7.53% | 7 | |
| Other (please specify) | 1 | ||
| Answered | 93 | ||
| Skipped | 13 | ||
| Respondents | Response Date | Other (please specify) | Tags |
| 1 | Feb 15 2020 08:11 AM | I did not have mental illness I sought pastoral counseling for premarital and marriage counseling |
Free Response: May select multiple answers: Do you believe local churches should assist individuals with acute mental illness in any of the following areas?”
