PMID- 11888430
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20020425
LR  - 20191105
IS  - 1530-1567 (Print)
IS  - 1530-1567 (Linking)
VI  - 2
IP  - 1
DP  - 2002 Jan-Feb
TI  - Faculty and resident attitudes about spirituality and religion in the provision 
      of pediatric health care.
PG  - 5-10
AB  - OBJECTIVE: To characterize pediatricians' attitudes toward spirituality/religion 
      (S/R) in relationship to the practice of pediatrics. METHODS: Pediatric faculty 
      (n = 100) and residents (n = 65) in an urban academic medical center completed a 
      questionnaire about their attitudes toward and clinical practices related to S/R. 
      Study variables included the strength of personal S/R orientation, attitudes 
      toward S/R, clinicians' discussion of S/R with patients and families, 
      self-reported S/R behaviors, the medical conditions that warrant discussion of 
      S/R, and attitudes toward praying with patients if asked to do so. RESULTS: 
      Sixty-five percent of pediatricians felt that faith plays a role in healing, and 
      76% reported feeling comfortable praying with a patient if asked to do so. 
      Ninety-three percent would ask about S/R when discussing a life-threatening 
      illness, and 96% when discussing death and dying. A strong personal S/R 
      orientation was associated with beliefs that the pediatrician should discuss S/R 
      with the patient (P <.01); beliefs that faith plays a role in healing (P <.01); 
      and feelings that patients would like to discuss S/R with their pediatrician (P 
      <.01), that the doctor-patient relationship would be strengthened by discussion 
      of S/R (P <.01), and that physicians should call on an S/R leader for an illness 
      or death (P <.01). Personal S/R orientation was not related to whether physicians 
      reported that they discuss S/R issues with their patients (P =.08). Residents 
      were more likely than faculty to state that it is appropriate to pray with 
      patients if asked to do so (P <.05), and compared with pediatricians who were 
      science majors in college, pediatricians who were nonscience majors in college 
      felt more comfortable praying with patients if asked to do so (P <.01). 
      CONCLUSIONS: In an urban, inner-city, academic medical center, pediatric 
      residents and faculty have an overall positive attitude toward the integration of 
      S/R into the practice of pediatrics.
FAU - Siegel, Benjamin
AU  - Siegel B
AD  - Department of Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of 
      Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA. bsiegel@bu.edu
FAU - Tenenbaum, Andrew J
AU  - Tenenbaum AJ
FAU - Jamanka, Amber
AU  - Jamanka A
FAU - Barnes, Linda
AU  - Barnes L
FAU - Hubbard, Carol
AU  - Hubbard C
FAU - Zuckerman, Barry
AU  - Zuckerman B
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - United States
TA  - Ambul Pediatr
JT  - Ambulatory pediatrics : the official journal of the Ambulatory Pediatric 
      Association
JID - 101089367
SB  - IM
MH  - Academic Medical Centers
MH  - *Attitude of Health Personnel
MH  - Boston
MH  - *Faculty, Medical/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Faith Healing/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Female
MH  - Holistic Health
MH  - Hospitals, Pediatric
MH  - Humans
MH  - Internship and Residency/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Male
MH  - Medical Staff, Hospital/*psychology/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Pediatrics/education/*methods
MH  - Physician-Patient Relations
MH  - Professional-Family Relations
MH  - Religion and Medicine
MH  - *Spirituality
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
EDAT- 2002/03/13 10:00
MHDA- 2002/04/26 10:01
CRDT- 2002/03/13 10:00
PHST- 2002/03/13 10:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2002/04/26 10:01 [medline]
PHST- 2002/03/13 10:00 [entrez]
AID - S1530-1567(05)60074-3 [pii]
AID - 10.1367/1539-4409(2002)002<0005:faraas>2.0.co;2 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Ambul Pediatr. 2002 Jan-Feb;2(1):5-10. doi: 
      10.1367/1539-4409(2002)002<0005:faraas>2.0.co;2.