Do suffering patients turn to God?
Interpretative data from 300 Catholic hospitals and 48 interviews with Catholic health professionals suggest that patients who have always had faith will turn to God when in distress; patients who did not have faith may still not turn to God; and some patients may reject God entirely through pain and disablement.
D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001293:Attitude to Death; D002410:Catholicism; D006801:Humans; D010146:Pain / Q000523:psychology*; D010327:Pastoral Care; D010361:Patients / Q000523:psychology*; D010564:Personnel, Hospital; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States