%0 Journal Article
%T Do clinicians assess patients¡¯ religiousness? An audit of an aged psychiatry community team
%A Vahid Payman
%A Zheng Jie Lim
%J Australasian Psychiatry
%@ 1440-1665
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1039856218765849
%X To determine the frequency and quality of religious history taking of patients by clinicians working in an old age psychiatry service. A retrospective audit of 80 randomised patient files from the Koropiko Mental Health Services for Older People (MHSOP) in Middlemore Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand. A total of 66 clinical records were available for analysis. A religious history was taken in 33/66 (50%) patients. However, when such histories were evaluated using the FICA assessment tool, only 10/33 (30.3%) histories contained detailed information regarding the patient¡¯s religiousness. The infrequency and low quality of religious histories discovered in this audit suggest that clinicians need more training in taking a religious history from patients
%K religion
%K assessment
%K audit
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1039856218765849