Perspectives about Spiritual Care in Pharmacy Practice: A Community-based Survey.

Addressing religious and spiritual needs are important components of holistic healthcare. Little is known about the general public's perspectives about pharmacists providing spiritual care (SC). To explore how community members perceive, experience, and desire pharmacist-provided SC.

Pharmacy students' perceived barriers to spiritual care: A qualitative study.

Background: Spiritual care (SC) is an important component of whole person care, a goal that many pharmacists embrace. Knowledge about barriers to incorporating SC in pharmacy practice may allow understanding of how to increase its provision.

Objectives: The objective of the study was to investigate pharmacy students' perceived personal and professional barriers to incorporating SC in pharmacy practice.

An exploratory qualitative study of pharmacy student perspectives of implicit bias in pharmacy practice.

Introduction: Implicit biases can contribute to unfair treatment in healthcare and exacerbate healthcare disparities. Little is known about the implicit biases that exist within pharmacy practice and their behavioral manifestations. The purpose of this study was to explore pharmacy student perspectives about implicit bias in pharmacy practice.

An online survey to describe pharmacy student spirituality and spiritual care perspectives.

Introduction: Little is known about student pharmacists' perspectives of spirituality and spiritual care (SC) in pharmacy education and practice. The purpose of this study was to examine student pharmacists' perspectives about spirituality and incorporating SC in pharmacy education and practice.

Methods: Student pharmacists were recruited from two private pharmacy schools in California, one religiously-affiliated and one non-religiously affiliated.

Pharmacists' perspectives about spiritual care: A state-wide survey.

Background: Patients' religious and spiritual beliefs affect their health behaviors, health outcomes, and interactions with health care providers. Incorporating spiritual support in clinical care contributes positively to patient health outcomes. No known studies have explored spiritual care (SC) within the context of pharmacy practice.

Pharmacists' spiritual care perspectives and experiences: Qualitative findings from a statewide survey.

Objective: Pharmacists are encouraged to provide whole-person care. Because holistic care is conceptualized as including spiritual care (SC), this study investigated the experiences and perspectives of pharmacists regarding SC in pharmacy practice.

Methods: Data for this cross-sectional, qualitative study were collected from a survey mailed to 1000 randomly selected registered pharmacists in California in 2019.