A espiritualidade no cuidado em saúde: concepções de estudantes de medicina e de enfermagem

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, João Bernardino da
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/7874
• topic: Espiritualidade; Spirituality; Espiritualidad; Saúde; Cuidado; Health; Care; Salud; Cuidado; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::TEOLOGIA

Nowadays the relationship between spirituality and health has been increasingly narrowing. Given this perspective, the objective of this research was to understanding the meanings and the relationship between spirituality, health and care, according to the conceptions of healthcare students. There were interviewed 60 students of both genders, being half of medical school and the other half of the course of nursing, in a public university in the city of João Pessoa – PB. For data collection it was used an instrument composed of two parts: the first consisted of a socio-demographic questionnaire in order to seize the age, gender, marital status, schooling, religion, religious practice and religious attendance of the participants of the study; the second part contained four questions about the study's central theme. Data were analyzed using content analysis. It was found that students of Medicine and Nursing courses attribute the concept of spirituality to religiosity, evidencing a reductionist vision of the spiritual dimension of man. Regarding the relationship between spirituality and professional care, most of medical students correlated with holistic professional attention, once they recognize the interference of spirituality in recovery of the patient. On the other hand, most nursing academics associated this relationship with the humanized care, which reflects positively on the prognosis of being careful. In relation to the interface between spirituality and health-disease process, it was noted that students of both courses recognize the influence of those in the healing process, coping the disease and the increase treatment adherence. It was concluded that a large proportion of medical students and nursing acknowledge the importance of spirituality and its influence on the health-disease process; however their speeches demonstrate the lack of discernment between what is spirituality, religion and religiosity.