Human Development Index and its association with staff spiritual care provision: a Middle Eastern oncology study

Background Although staff spiritual care provision plays a key role in patient-centered care, there is insufficient information on international variance in attitudes toward spiritual care and its actual provision. Methods A cross-sectional survey of the attitudes of Middle Eastern oncology physicia...

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Published in:Supportive care in cancer 2019-09, Vol.27 (9), p.3601-3610
Main Authors: Bar-Sela, Gil, Schultz, Michael J., Elshamy, Karima, Rassouli, Maryam, Ben-Arye, Eran, Doumit, Myrna, Gafer, Nahla, Albashayreh, Alaa, Ghrayeb, Ibtisam, Turker, Ibrahim, Ozalp, Gulcin, Kav, Sultan, Fahmi, Rasha, Nestoros, Sophia, Ghali, Hasanein, Mula-Hussain, Layth, Shazar, Ilana, Obeidat, Rana, Punjwani, Rehana, Khleif, Mohamad, Can, Gulbeyaz, Tuncel, Gonca, Charalambous, Haris, Faraj, Safa, Keoppi, Neophyta, Al-Jadiry, Mazin, Postovsky, Sergey, Al-Omari, Ma’an, Razzaq, Samaher, Ayyash, Hani, Khader, Khaled, Kebudi, Rejin, Omran, Suha, Rasheed, Osaid, Qadire, Mohammed, Ozet, Ahmet, Silbermann, Michael
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Language:English
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Analysis
Attitudes
Care and treatment
Hospice care
Information management
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Nurses
Nursing
Nursing care
Nursing Research
Oncology
Original Article
Pain Medicine
Palliative care
Patient-centered care
Patients
Prayer
Rehabilitation Medicine
Spirituality
Surveys
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Summary:Background Although staff spiritual care provision plays a key role in patient-centered care, there is insufficient information on international variance in attitudes toward spiritual care and its actual provision. Methods A cross-sectional survey of the attitudes of Middle Eastern oncology physicians and nurses toward eight examples of staff provision of spiritual care: two questionnaire items concerned prayer, while six items related to applied information gathering, such as spiritual history taking, referrals, and encouraging patients in their spirituality. In addition, respondents reported on spiritual care provision for their last three advanced cancer patients. Results Seven hundred seventy responses were received from 14 countries (25% from countries with very high Human Development Index (HDI), 41% high, 29% medium, 5% low). Over 63% of respondents positively viewed the six applied information gathering items, while significantly more, over 76%, did so among respondents from very high HDI countries ( p value range, p  
ISSN:0941-4355
1433-7339
DOI:10.1007/s00520-019-04733-0