Spiritual Exploration In The Prenatal Genetic Counseling Session

<p>Religion and spirituality are important components of many individuals’ lives, and spiritual needs may present among persons receiving medical care. Spirituality has been demonstrated to be significant in the coping of women experiencing pregnancy complications (Breen et al. 2006; Price et al. 2007). To characterize the manner in which prenatal genetic counselors might address spiritual issues with their patients, we surveyed 283 patients receiving prenatal genetic counseling using the Brief RCope and a series of questions that examined interest in spiritual exploration. Counselors were concurrently surveyed to identify the spiritual language used within the session and the counselor’s perceived importance of religion/spirituality to the patient. Genetic counselors were significantly more likely to identify a patient as using R/S when the patients used spiritual language (<em>p</em></p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Masters of Science (MS)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis (MS)

Year dc:date.available

2015

Author dc:creator

• Sagaser, Katelynn G

Contributors dc:contributor

• Claire N. Singletary, MS, CGC
• S. Shahrukh Hashmi, MD, MPH, Ph.D
• Rebecca D. Carter, MS, CGC

• spirituality
• prenatal genetic counseling
• religion
• genetics
• spiritual assessment
• religious coping
• Counseling
• Medicine and Health Sciences
• Other Mental and Social Health
• Social and Behavioral Sciences

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https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/utgsbs_dissertations/562

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oai:digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu:utgsbs_dissertations-1600