Survey on Physicians Attitudes toward the Impact of the Spirituality Quantity on the Process of Patient's Treatment

The impact of the spiritual attitude of physicians on the improvement of their patients is a title that today has attracted the attention of many experts and scholars. In recent research, it has been shown that the spiritual attitude may affect the process of the patient's treatment. The main aim of this study is to study the attitudes of physicians about the effects of spirituality quantity on the treatment process. Physicians constitute the statistical population of this study. Five Hundred physicians were chosen by the simple sampling method. A questionnaire was used in this study for assessment of physician's spiritual attitudes. According to the physicians, they were divided in two groups: religious and less religious and their opinions were compared. The effect of the Physician's attitudes on the health of patients were significantly different between religious and less religious Groups (P<0.0005). Namely, religious physicians attached for the religion or spirituality more impact on the patient's health in comparison with the opposite group. 68% of religious physicians believed that the impact of religion/spirituality on the health of patients was very much. In contrast, 70% of less religious physicians believed that this impact was little or to some extent. 18, 43, 34, and 4 percent of physicians respectively believed that the impact of spirituality on the patient's health was very high, high, somewhat and negligible. The result showed that a special attention must be made to the spiritual potentials of patients and physicians in the process of patient's treatment.