SamenZin: een participatief actieonderzoek gericht op samenwerkend leren over zingeving van Geestelijk Verzorgers en POH GGZ/Ouderen in de eerstelijnszorg in Utrecht en omgeving

Meaningfulness is still an underexposed area in primary care. Although questions of meaning, philosophy of life and spirituality arise in many different target groups, it requires a sensitivity and competences of care providers to notice them and offer guidance. Spiritual care is an ideal target group that knows how to deal with questions of meaning, but is still little known to other care providers in primary care and has few structural forms of collaboration in this domain. General practitioners in the field of psychosocial problems (POH GGZ) and geriatric care form an accessible professional group for questions and problems of various kinds and are firmly embedded in primary care. However, for the POH GGZ in particular, attention to pleasure in life is not yet an explicit part of their professional profile or training.

The aim of the project is to bring both professional groups together through the development of a 'collaborative learning about meaningfulness' program of GV and POH GGZ / Elderly with a view to strengthen the care for meaningfulness, philosophy of life and spirituality in patients and clients in primary care.