RT Article
T1 Percepção de docentes brasileiros sobre as relações entre saúde, religião, espiritualidade e seu ensino
JF Horizonte
VO 19
IS 60
SP 1057
OP 1077
A1 Silva, Taís Oliveira da
A1 Moreira-Almeida, Alexander
A1 Dias, André Luis Mattedi
A1 Welby-Borges, Marcus
LA Portuguese
PB [publisher not identified]
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/183083343X
AB Despite the greater recognition of the importance of the relationships between health, religion and spirituality in health care, Brazilian universities still do not provide adequate training in this area. The aim of this article is to understand how professors at a Brazilian public university perceive the relationships between health, religion, spirituality and their teaching. 10 teachers were submitted to a semi-structured interview and the data were analyzed through content analysis. Three thematic nuclei were found and, from these, five categories emerged: Religion and Spirituality: Overlapping concepts?; Good or bad for health?; Dimension excluded from clinical practice; Teaching: It would be nice, but not now; Questions and barriers to inclusion in teaching. The results showed that the participants overlapped the concepts of religion and spirituality, recognized their positive impacts on health, however, they emphasized their problematic aspects. The teaching of health, religion and spirituality was not considered a priority and the beliefs of the faculty seem to influence this position. Given the quantity and quality of scientific evidence on the positive impact of religion/spirituality on health, the inclusion of this topic in the training of health professionals should not only depend on the perceptions and/or preferences of the university faculty.
K1 Ensino Superior
K1 Espiritualidade
K1 Religião
K1 Saúde
DO 10.5752/P.2175-5841.2021v19n60p1057