Discussing spiritual health in primary care and the HOPE tool-A mixed methods survey of GP views.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the UK, the General Medical Council (GMC) and Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) require doctors to consider spiritual health in their consultations. There are documented barriers to discussion of spiritual health, and suggested tools to help overcome them.

Aim

To investigate how comfortable general practitioners (GPs) feel about discussing spiritual health in the consultation, and whether a structured tool (the HOPE tool) would be helpful.

Design and setting

A mixed-methods online survey completed by GPs in England.

Method

A mixed methods online survey of practicing GPs in England asked about current comfort with the topic of spiritual health and use of spiritual history-taking tools. The acceptability of the HOPE tool was investigated

SUBMITTER: Whitehead IO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9642893 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature