The Spirituality/Religiosity of Family Medicine Physicians: Evaluation of SUS Open Univers

Brazilian family medicine trainees from the UNA-SUS/UFCSPA online platform participated in a cross-sectional survey. The dataset contains 73 responses (a 17.2% response rate) regarding their opinions on teaching religious/spiritual issues in medical training, personal religious profiles, and perceptions of spirituality in clinical practice. The data was collected by author Paulo Rogério Dalla Colletta de Aguiar.

Use Cases

• Analyze correlations between personal religious beliefs and attitudes towards spiritual care in medicine based on survey responses.
• Model trainee support for including spiritual history-taking in the curriculum based on the reported 60.3% considering it the most important skill.
• Study the perceived impact of spirituality on physical health among medical trainees, referenced by 94.6% of respondents.
• Investigate the gap between recognizing spirituality's relevance and providing spiritual care, as suggested by the conclusion.

Strengths

• Contains specific response percentages for key survey questions, such as 89% believing spiritual care is important in healthcare.
• Provides a clear geographic and demographic scope: Brazilian family medicine trainees from a specific online platform.
• Includes a defined sample size of 73 responses from an invited population of 423 students.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic and institutional bias inherent to the single-platform survey.

Provenance

Source

Paulo Rogério Dalla Colletta de Aguiar

Collection Method

Cross-sectional survey conducted via the UNA-SUS/UFCSPA online platform.

Geography

Brazil