Titre
Spirituality and religious practices among outpatients with schizophrenia and their clinicians
Type
article
Institution
UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté + institutions partenaires
Périodique
Auteur(s)
Huguelet, Philippe
Auteure/Auteur
Mohr, Sylvia
Auteure/Auteur
Borras, Laurence
Auteure/Auteur
Gillièron, Christiane
Auteure/Auteur
Brandt, Pierre-Yves
Auteure/Auteur
Liens vers les personnes
Liens vers les unités
ISSN
1557-9700
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2006-03
Volume
57
Numéro
3
Première page
366
Dernière page/numéro d’article
372
Langue
anglais
Résumé
OBJECTIVES: Religious issues may be neglected by clinicians who are treating psychotic patients, even when religion constitutes an important means of coping. This study examined the spirituality and religious practices of outpatients with schizophrenia compared with their clinicians. Clinicians' knowledge of patients' religious involvement and spirituality was investigated. METHODS: The study sample included 100 patients of public psychiatric outpatient facilities in Geneva, Switzerland, with a diagnosis of nonaffective psychosis. Audiotaped interviews were conducted with use of a semistructured interview about spirituality and religious coping. The patients' clinicians (N=34) were asked about their own beliefs and religious activities as well as their patients' religious and clinical characteristics. RESULTS: Sixteen patients (16 percent) had positive psychotic symptoms reflecting aspects of their religious beliefs. A majority of the patients reported that religion was an important aspect of their lives, but only 36 percent of them had raised this issue with their clinicians. Fewer clinicians were religiously involved, and, in half the cases, their perceptions of patients' religious involvement were inaccurate. A few patients considered religious practice to be incompatible with treatment, and clinicians were seldom aware of such a conflict. CONCLUSIONS: Religion is an important issue for patients with schizophrenia, and it is often not related to the content of their delusions. Clinicians were commonly not aware of their patients' religious involvement, even if they reported feeling comfortable with such an issue.
PID Serval
serval:BIB_26D3779376C4
Date de création
2008-12-17T15:11:10.977Z
Date de création dans IRIS
2025-05-20T20:08:46Z