title: A Descriptive Study of a Spirituality Curriculum for General Psychiatry Residents.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The study collected data on the attitudes of residents toward religion and spirituality in their practice after taking part in a 3-year curriculum on spirituality during their residency.
  
  
  METHODS
  This is a descriptive, single-site study with psychiatry residents as subjects. A questionnaire was given to the residents at the end of their third year of residency (N = 12).
  
  
  RESULTS
  The responses heavily endorsed the religiousness/spirituality curriculum to be helpful and meaningful. Residents consider addressing spiritual and religious needs of patients to be important (76.9%) and appropriate. For majority of the residents (69.2%), there is strong agreement in the management of addictions having spiritual dimensions. Residents also strongly agreed that treatment of suffering, depression, guilt, and complicated grief may require attention to spiritual concerns (92-100%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Regardless of cultural or religious background, the residents endorsed the curriculum as a worthwhile experience and increased their appreciation of the place of spirituality in the holistic care of patients with psychiatric conditions.
authors.affiliation: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, USA. thomas.mcgovern@ttuhsc.edu.
authors.forename: Thomas F
authors.initials: TF
authors.lastname: McGovern
authors.affiliation: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Terry
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: McMahon
authors.affiliation: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Jessica
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nelson
authors.affiliation: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Regina
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bundoc-Baronia
authors.affiliation: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Chuck
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Giles
authors.affiliation: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Vanessa
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Schmidt
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003479:Curriculum; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009549:Nigeria; D010154:Pakistan; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D012807:Sierra Leone; D013030:Spain; D029181:Spirituality; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014479:United Arab Emirates; D014481:United States
keywords: Professional development; Resident: cross-cultural psychiatry