Espiritualidade e saúde

Abstract

The study is a research of qualitative approach with the objective of knowing the opinion of health professionals about the influence of the user´s spirituality/religiosity in the health sickness process. The collecting of data has been the focus discussion with professionals of communitarian health services of the ?Grupo Hospitalar Conceição? of the city of Porto Alegre (RS) in September of 2009. The sample tries to embrace all the diversity of professionals. The two issues of discussion have been the relation between health and spirituality and how the professionals strive with religiosity of user in his work. The data have been interpreted by the content analysis. Two categories are coming out in this analysis: The influence of spirituality/religiosity in health and the respect of the user religiosity as impartiality. The findings pointed out that the professionals have positive and negative conceptions about spirituality/religiosity of users in health. The negative one show that they miss a better preparing to strive with this dimension in his work, although they respect the religious ideas of user but only as impartiality not as something that could help in therapy.