Spiritual assessment and a therapeutic intervention in mental health patients: An evidence-based implementation project

Introduction: Patients with mental illness face a very complicated and delicate time throughout their disease process. The spiritual dimension emerges during this period in which spiritual distress is a reality, however health professionals neglect this dimension that is part of the integrality of the human being.
Objective: To assess the compliance of evidence-based practice on screening spiritual distress and a spiritual therapeutic intervention in people with mental illness.
Method: This evidence implementation project used the Joanna Briggs Institute’s Practical Application of Clinical Evidence Systems and Getting Research into Practice method.
Results and implications: Identify barriers and facilitators to accomplishing evidence-based practice on screening spiritual distress and a spiritual therapeutic intervention in people with mental illness. To improve the compliance rates related to the evidence-based practice for screening spiritual distress in people with mental illness. To improve knowledge regarding best practice in a spiritual therapeutic intervention among a multidisciplinary healthcare team.