Medicina e religião: a presença da religiosidade/espiritualidade na prática clínica

• Autor(a) principal: Corsi, Gina
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/24222
• topic: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIA::OUTRAS SOCIOLOGIAS ESPECIFICAS; Medicina - Aspectos religiosos; Religiosidade; Fé; Medicine - Religious aspects; Religiousness; Faith

The research starts from the hypothesis that the doctor's religiosity is present in clinical practice and it can be an important resource to face professional challenges. Thus, the general objective of the research is to investigate how religiosity is related to clinical practice among Brazilian doctors. To achieve this goal, the study was guided by the following investigative questions: (a) Does the doctor's religiosity influence the way he or she treats his patient? (b) Can the doctor, through the practice of medicine, experience his or her religiosity? (c) Do doctors believe that subjects related to religion should be part of the medical curriculum? This is a qualitative and quantitative descriptive cross-sectional study. Recruitment took place in the online format (google forms), like snowball, self-generated for convenience The sample included 471 Brazilian doctors; 304 women and 164 men, responding to the SBRAME Questionnaire (Spirituality and Brazilian Medical Education) created by the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp). The treatment ensued with the crossing of the data with statistical analysis. For qualitative variables, absolute and relative frequencies were calculated. To test the homogeneity between the proportions, the chi-square test and the Fisher's exact test were used. The software used for the calculations was SPSS 17.0 for Windows. All variables were analyzed descriptively with an exploratory character. The study concludes that doctor’s religisioty is alive and present in clinical practice, used as an auxiliary force for decision making and to face difficulties found in medical practice. Many are interested in the religiosity of the patient but do not approach this subject for ethical issues. If medical education includes topics related to health and spirituality in the undergraduate courses, it will ensure that this issue is no longer taboo between students and medical professionals, bringing humanitarian benefits to the profession