A cross‐sectional study was conducted among doctors of North India ( n = 250) with the help of self‐administered questionnaire. The mean age of doctors was 42.18 years (standard deviation = 9.108). Of the total respondents, 74.35% were male and 25.65% were female; 65.65% had a strong or very strong belief in the spiritual dimension of health; 55.22% believed in the preventive role of spirituality; 80% believed in the curative role of spirituality and a similar proportion held the view that spirituality has an important role in day‐to‐day patient care; and 92.5% wanted to know more about the scientific work being done in the field of spirituality.
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