Introduction: Nowadays, many studies emphasize the importance of spiritual wellbeing as a
component of health promotion. It is understood, therefore, that spirituality/religiousness emerges
as one more element in the personcentered therapy, requiring adequate attention, contributing to
raise the quality of care of the human being. Objectives: To know, from the point of view of
hospitalized clinical patients, their perception of whether their spiritual and/or religious needs were
met. Materials and methods: This is an observational, quantitative and qualitative, analytical,
transversal study, carried out in the wards of Clinical Medicine of João de Barros Barreto
University Hospital, in which a research protocol composed of four parts was applied to 29
patients: I) sociodemographic aspects; II) spiritual anamnesis; III) scale of spiritual wellbeing
and, IV) perception of care by the patient. This research obtained the consent of the local
Committee for Ethics in Research in Human Beings. Results: In the study period, the selected
population had a mean age of 61 years, slight predominance of the female gender (55.17%),
coming from the metropolitan region in 65.51% and 96.55% declared to be part of some religious
affiliation. Regarding the perception of spiritual attendance, 100% of the patients answered that
they consider it important for the health team to know about their beliefs and/or religion, but only
in 41.7% of the cases this was attended to, with the majority being nurses and psychologists. The
content analysis of the spiritual anamnesis reinforced in the four categories identified the
importance of spirituality/religiosity in the moment of illness and that they were at a moderate to
high level of spiritual wellbeing. Conclusions: The results of this study showed that most of the
patients interviewed had satisfactory spiritual wellbeing, as well as a desire that their spiritual
needs be considered an aspect of their overall health, demonstrating the importance of this
knowledge for health professionals.
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