title: Should my provider pray with me? Perspectives of urban adolescents with asthma on addressing religious and spiritual issues in hypothetical clinical settings.
abstract: This qualitative study examined the preferences of urban adolescents with asthma for including religious/spiritual (R/S) inquiry in a variety of hypothetical clinical encounters. Twenty-one urban adolescents (M(age) = 15.6 years, 52 % female, 81 % African American) with asthma participated in a semi-structured interview. Interviews were transcribed and underwent a thematic analysis. R/S preferences were contextual rather than personal, driven by: (1) acuity of the hypothetical clinical context; (2) nature of the patient-provider relationship; and (3) level of R/S intervention/inquiry. Most adolescents welcomed prayer if near death, but did not see the relevance of R/S in a routine office visit.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, P.O. Box 670566, Cincinnati, OH, 45267-0840, USA, sian.cotton@uc.edu.
authors.forename: Sian
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cotton
authors.forename: Daniel H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Grossoehme
authors.forename: Whitney R
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Bignall
authors.forename: Jerren C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Weekes-Kanu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D001249:Asthma / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D015146:Midwestern United States; D057240:Patient Preference / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012067:Religion; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D029181:Spirituality; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*