Open AccessHealth care providers' perception of their competence in providing spiritual care for patients
Author(s) -
Hossein Ebrahimi,
Hossein Namdar Areshtanab,
Mohammad Asghari Jafarabadi,
Soraya Golipoor Khanmiri
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
indian journal of palliative care/indian journal of palliative care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.395
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1998-3735
pISSN - 0973-1075
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1075.197957
Subject(s) - competence (human resources) , perception , descriptive statistics , medicine , nursing , health care , spiritual care , family medicine , psychology , alternative medicine , social psychology , spirituality , statistics , mathematics , pathology , neuroscience , economics , economic growth
Spiritual care is an important part of health-care provision. Spiritual care can improve patients' health. One of the requirements for providing appropriate spiritual care for patients is having the required competence.