Table 3.

Associations between GPs’ personal spirituality and their attitude towards enquiring about spirituality in practice

Attitude	Personal spirituality (index, showing how much influence spirituality has on one’s life)	Personal spirituality as source for strength to overcome hardships	Importance of spirituality for one’s own health	Spirituality experienced as wearing	Affiliation to spiritual community
	Spearman’s ρ				p-value (Mann–Whitney-U)
Attitude towards enquiring about faith in practice	0.196	0.113	0.225* 95%CI =  [− 0.161; 0.552]	− 0,031	0.488
Attitude towards enquiring about sources of strength in practice	0.385* 95%CI =  [− 0.022; 0.659]	0.359* 95%CI =  [− 0.001; 0.637]	0.359* 95%CI =  [0.012; 0.639]	− 0,198	0.212