Table A1.
Interview guide.
| Socio-Demographic Data |
|---|
| What gender do you identify with? |
| How old are you? |
| What is your nationality? |
| What is your marital status? |
| What was your place of birth? |
| What is your current city of residence? |
| What is your university degree? |
| How many years of professional experience do you have in Mental Health? |
| In which mental health unit do you currently work? |
| Postgraduate training: Do you have any training in mental health? Do you have any training in spirituality/religion? Spirituality/religion: Which one? |
| Dimension of religiosity |
| How do you feel: religious, spiritual, spiritual and religious, or would not know how to answer? Describe if you can. |
| Could you describe your religious affiliation if you have one? |
| Clinical practice and spirituality |
| Have you ever heard the term spiritual health and what do you understand by it? |
| Do you think religion/spirituality influences patients’ health or coping with illness in any way? If so, how do you think it influences it? |
| In your opinion, does the spirituality/religiosity of health professionals interfere with the professional-patient relationship? In what way does it influence it? |
| Do you feel a desire to address the issue of faith/spirituality with patients? |
| Have you ever asked your patients about religion/spirituality? * (If “Yes”: How often do you usually ask this question, when or in what situations do you usually address this question? religious or spiritual aspects that characterized them? |
| How do you think you can provide spiritual care in your daily activity? |
| Do you experience difficulties or barriers that discourage you from discussing religion/spirituality with your patients? religion/spirituality with your patients? Which ones? |
| Religion/spirituality in the approach to the mental health patient |
| In your daily practice, do you address or value the spiritual dimension of your patients? |
| What is the role of your own spiritual or religious beliefs in assessing or approaching the patient? |
| How do you perceive that the individual’s beliefs influence the course of their illness? |
| Can you tell me if your patients use their own spiritual/religious beliefs as a way of coping with their illness? |
| Have you ever avoided discussing religious or spiritual issues with your patients? Could you describe why? |
| Have you considered assessing and addressing the spiritual/religious needs of your patients’ families? If so, how have you done so? |
| How do you think spiritual care could be improved, are there resources or some kind of help that could be useful? |
| Academic training in spirituality |
| Do you think it would be useful for these aspects and spiritual/religious care to have more value within university education? Where: in undergraduate studies? in specific subjects? in a transversal way? in postgraduate studies: master’s degree or expert? Do you know anything? |
| How important might this training be for your work in the mental health field? Why? |