Article Test

Home  >  Medical Research Archives  >  Issue 149  > Attention to the spiritual and religious needs of patients by healthcare personnel. A model based on spiritual accompaniment.
Published in the Medical Research Archives
Dec 2021 Issue

Attention to the spiritual and religious needs of patients by healthcare personnel. A model based on spiritual accompaniment.

Published on Dec 27, 2021

DOI 

Abstract

 

During the past decades, spirituality and religion have regained their importance in health care, not only as a way of respecting the decision-making autonomy of the patient but as an element that influences the clinical evolution and quality of life of the sick patient and allowing to provide comprehensive health care. The latter has resulted in many countries guaranteeing spiritual care during hospitalizations by law. However, on the one hand, attention to spiritual and religious needs is usually reserved only for terminal cancer patients and/or patients with catastrophic diseases. On the other hand, attention to these needs has gradually become considered part of the obligations of the health teams, not without their reluctance and without a clear indication of how this task must be carried out.  This work aims to present the importance of spirituality and religion inpatient care and a care model based on spiritual accompaniment.

Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul be just another human soul. Carl Jung

Author info

Marcelo Canteros

Have an article to submit?

Submission Guidelines

Submit a manuscript

Become a member

Call for papers

Have a manuscript to publish in the society's journal?