Showing 30 results for Spiritual
M. Farahaninia, M. Abbasi, A. Givari, H. Haghani,
Volume 18, Issue 44 (1-2006)
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In Holistic Nursing, human being is a complex multidimensional creature. Spiritual dimension is the most prominent aspect of human being, which affects individuals' health. Therefore, it seems that providing spiritual focused-care is an important domain of nursing performance. The purpose of this study was to determine and to compare, the perspectives of the first and fourth year baccalaureate nursing student regarding spiritual well being and spirtual care. The design was a comparative study, and the data collection instruments, were Spiritual Well-Being (SWB), Spiritual Perspective Scale (SPS) and Nursing Spiritual Care Perspective Scale (NSCPS). From 350 students of first and fourth year of Nursing Schools of Iran, Tehran and Shahidbeheshti universities, 283 students participated in the study. The results showed that, there were not any significant differences between the two groups considering their spiritual well-being. In other words, 98.8% of the first year and 100% of the fourth year students were in the group of moderate spiritual well-being. Besides, the mean and standard deviation of spiritual scores were 4.45 (0.65) and 4.33 (0.76) for the first and fourth year students respectively, which was not statistically significant. Although fourth year students had been involved in a 4-year nursing education curriculla, their scores of spirituality were the same as the first year students. So, the researchers strongly suggest that the revisions of the curriculum may be necessary in a way to investigate the spiritual aspect of life with nursing education programs. Further studies need to be undertaken to gain more insights into longitudinal investigations and the use of new tools as data collection instruments, especially suitable to Iranian Culture. Other studies is recommended to evaluate the effect of education on spiritual development in students.
M. Rezaei, N.seyed Fatemi, A.givari, F.hoseini,
Volume 20, Issue 52 (12-2007)
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Background & Aim: Cancer as one of the most common chronic illnesses is a stressful factor affecting physical, psychological, and spiritual dimensions. Prayer is a source of resistance against these crises, especially in spiritual domain, promoting spiritual well-being. The aim of the current study is to examine the relationship between prayer activity and spiritual well-being in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy
Material & Method: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study. Three handred and sixty patients who were more than 20 years old, alert to their disease, and able to read and write participated in this study. Data collection was done by Meraviglia's prayer (2002) and Paloutzian & Ellison's spiritual well-being (1982) questionnaires. Data analysis was done by SPSS program.
Results: Findings showed that the mean scores of prayer practice and spiritual well being were respectively (94.5±12.98) and (98.35±14.36). Direct and significant relationship was found between prayer practice and spiritual well-being. (p=0.001, r=0.61)
Conclusion: Regarding the results that show the relationship between prayer practice and spiritual well being of the patients, nurses should consider prayer as a health promoting strategy in caring programs and choose a comprehensive and holistic approach toward their patients.
Tahereh Ganji , Agh Fatemeh Hosseini ,
Volume 23, Issue 64 (6-2010)
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Background and Aim: Anxiety is a widespread human phenomenon accompanying the painful expectation of an undesirable event (1), and it’s a common response to tension, an unpleasant mental situation.
Stress and anxiety would result in hopelessness, lacking power, proficiency and control over life.
We can reduce the affects of anxiety by applying some methods. The research results, as an example, showed that we can reduce the negative affects of anxiety through increasing the religious beliefs, and generally there is a strong relation between people’s religious beliefs and their health.
The purpose of this study was to determine the relation between spirituality and level of anxiety in nursing students of Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery Iran University of Medical Science 2005-2006.
Material and Methods: the research society was all of the students of Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery Iran University of Medical Science who were studying in the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery Iran University of Medical Science at the time of this research.
Among them 108 students were selected by chance. We had 3 questionnaires for data collection. The first was concerned with personal characteristics. The second was concerned with the spirituality and. Third questionnaire was anxiety scale.
Results: finding have shown that most of samples had highly spirituality (76.9%).consequently there was a meaningful relation between spirituality and religious activities (P = 0.000).
Results�were indicating that 51.9% of samples had no anxiety (mean ± 12.86 ± 10.87).
There was a meaningful statistical relation between anxiety and crisis experience within the last 6 months (P = 0.001).
Concerning the relation between spirituality and level of anxiety. Spearman’s test showed that the higher the level of spirituality, the lower the level of anxiety (r = -0.398, P = 0.001). as a result, the hypothesis was accepted.
Maryam Rasouli, Farideh Yaghmaei,
Volume 23, Issue 66 (10-2010)
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Background and Aim: Spirituality as a coping strategy plays an important role in human health. According to holistic approach, providing spiritual care for clients in different settings has been considered as a nurse’s responsibility. Despite the number of institutionalized adolescents living in residential settings, there are few studies have assessed spirituality in this group. In this regard, researchers conducted a qualitative research to explore spirituality and spiritual coping strategies in institutionalized adolescent girls.
Materials and Method: In this qualitative study, 15 adolescent girls were interviewed about the role of spirituality and spiritual strategies in coping with stresses of living in institutes. Interviews were analyzed using content analysis method.
Result: The main themes emerged from this study were: meaning in life, reliance on God, and seeking spiritual support.
Conclusion: The findings of the study provide in-depth understanding of female institutionalized adolescents’ experiences of spirituality and spiritual strategies in coping with stress which can be useful for nurses and other health care professionals, especially those caring for orphan adolescents. The findings can provide a framework for nursing care plans based on teaching spiritual coping strategies to decrease stresses of living in residential settings.
Jadidi A, Farahaninia M, Janmohammadi S, Haghani H,
Volume 24, Issue 72 (10-2011)
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Background & Aim: Regarding the increasing number of elderly people, their quality of life becomes more important. Spiritual health is one of the important aspects of health status that is often neglected. This study aims to identify the relationship between spiritual well-being and quality of life among elderly people residing in Kahrizak Senior House.
Material & Methods : It was a descriptive, correlational study. The sample included 141 elderly people residing in Kahrizak Senior House who recruited by convenience sampling . Data was collected by Spiritual Well-Being Index (SWBI) and Short Form Quality of Life (SF36)and analyzed by Pearson correlation coficient, ANOVA, and t-test using SPSS-PC (v-16)
Results: The mean score of quality of life was (50.36±11.3). Women’s quality of life was significantly lower than men (P=0.000). The mean score of spiritual well-being was (96.26±17.93). There was a positive correlation between spiritual well-being and quality of life (P=0.008).
Conclusion: regarding the lower levels of quality of life especially in women
elderly, more attention should be paid to this group of society .Awareness of the importance of spiritual well-being in caring of these people is recommended.
N Ghahremani, Ma Nadi,
Volume 25, Issue 79 (12-2012)
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Background & Aims: Spirituality and its components due to their effect on psychological constructs and their potential influence on organizational performance have been the researchers’ concerns in recent years. This study aims to determine the relationship between the religious / spiritual components with mental health and hope for the future in hospital staff.
Material & Methods : It was a cross-sectional study. The study population were public hospitals’ staff of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (n=4000) from whom 250 were recruited by simple random sampling during 2010. Data was collected by three questionnaires including hope for the future, mental health and components of religion / spirituality (including existential well-being, motivation, devotion & coping, spiritual transcendence, religious support, religious attitudes & practices) and analyzed by Pearson Correlation and Stepwise regression using SPSS-PC (v. 18).
Results : There were significant relationships between Existential Well-Being and Hope for the Future, Motivation, Devotion & Coping and Hope for the Future, and Mental Health and Hope for the Future (P<0/01). Also, all religious / spiritual components had significant correlations with mental health (P<0/01). Stepwise regression analysis showed that there are significant relationships between hope for the future and Motivation, Devotion and Coping with variance of 5% in the first step between hope for the future Motivation, Devotion and Coping with Mental Health with variance of 6/4% in the second step, between hope for the future and Motivation, Devotion and Coping with Mental Health and Existential Well-Being with variance of 9/1% in the third step and between hope for the future and the combination of Motivation, Devotion and Coping and Existential Well-Being with variance of 8/9% in the fourth step.
Conclusion : The findings indicated that Motivation, Devotion and Coping, and Existential Well-Being were respectively the most important religious-spiritual components which along with mental health affect hope for the future in the hospital staff.
Received: 16 Oct 2012
Accepted: 25 Dec 2012
M Saydshohadai, Sh Heshmat, N Seidfatemi, H Haghani, N Mehrdad,
Volume 26, Issue 81 (4-2013)
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Background & Aim : The phenomenon of the increasing number of old people population is one of the most important socio economic and health challenges in the 21st century. This challenge persuades the governors to consider more importance for these people’s health and specially their spiritual health which is often neglected. Therefore the present study has been conducted to compare the spiritual health of seniors living in sanitarium and home residents.
Material & methods : It was a cross-sectional comparative study. The sample included 209 seniors living in sanitarium and home residents. The home residents were recruited by cluster sampling from health centers of south Tehran and the sanitarium residents were selected by convenience sampling. Data was collected using demographic sheet and Elison and Palotzin Questionnaire with two parts of religious and existential health and analyzed by T test and chi square test and ANOVA using SPSS-PC (v.18).
Results: The mean score of spiritual health of seniors living in sanitarium and home residents was 63.92±6.7 and 60.08±9.3 respectively. The dimensions of religious and existential health of spiritual health were significantly different between the two groups (p=0/001).
Conclusion: Regarding the findings of this study, considering the factors related to promotion of spiritual health of this group of society especially home residents is recommended in their care.
Received: 14 Apr 2013
Accepted: 25 Jun 2013
S Heidari , Z Abedini ,
Volume 26, Issue 81 (4-2013)
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Background & Aim: Seleh-ye Rahem as a friendly and supportive relationship with physical and spiritual Arham, through the development and strengthening social support networks influences people's ability to deal with the mental and physical disorders caused by aging. Given that social change in modern societies has caused change in the social status of the elderly in communities and their families, this study aimed to investigate the status of physical and spiritual Seleh-ye Rahem of Qom elderlies.
Material & Methods: In this descriptive cross- sectional study 300 elderlies from Qom city were recruited by cluster systematic sampling in 2012. A researcher made physical and spiritual Seleh-ye Rahem questionnaire and health status of the elderly questionnaire was used to collect data. Validity and reliability of the first questionnaire was determined using content validity and internal proportion and consistency respectively (α -Cronbach's 0/86). Data were analyzed using SPSS-PC (v.18) and descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA and Kruskal- Wallis.
Results: The highest mean score of Seleh-ye Rahem was related to Seleh-ye Rahem with the Prophet and the infallible Imams (32/00) and then family(30/47). Seleh-ye Rahem with family was significantly associated with financial status, source of income, chronic disease and the elderlies’ lifestyle. Seleh-ye Rahem with relatives and friends was significantly associated with education. Seleh-ye Rahem with the Prophet and the infallible Imams was significantly associated with marital status, education, income and lifestyle and Seleh-ye Rahem with the religious scholars and Sadat was significantly associated with education and marital status (P < 0.05) .
Conclusion: The elderlies had the best Seleh-ye Rahem relations with the prophet and the Imams and then with their families and Seleh-ye Rahem relations was poor with relatives and friends, especially scholars and Imams descendants. Qualitative studies to identify the causes of poor Seleh-ye Rahem relations in the society and its effects on health status is recommended.
Received: 20 Jun 2013
Accepted: 13 Sep 2013
S Heidari , M Raisi , H Ahmari- Tehran , A Khorami- Rad ,
Volume 26, Issue 81 (4-2013)
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Background & Aim: Spirituality and religion as human dimensions and because of their role in recovery has been increasingly considered. This study was conducted with the aim of assessing relationship between religious activities and spiritual health with glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes.
Material & Methods: In this descriptive- correlational study, 154 hospitalized diabetic patients were recruited by convenience sampling from Kamkar and Shahid-Beheshti hospitals in city of Qom, in 2012. Data collection was done by Paloutzian & Ellison's spiritual well-being and Arcury religious activities questionnaires. Venous blood sample was taken for measurement of glycosylated hemoglobin and fasting blood glucose of patients. Data analysis was done by SPSS-PC (v.18) using descriptive statistics, t-test, Pearson correlation and stepwise linear regression.
Results : Mean score and standard deviation of religious activity and spiritual well-being was 40/81±12/93 ( scores range 20-120) and 90/79±12/88 ( scores range 0-65 ) respectively . Glycosylated hemoglobin of 68/8% of patients was ≥7% and 57/1% of the patients had blood sugar of more than 110 mg/dl. There was no significant difference between spiritual well-being and religious activities’ scores of patients with glycosylated hemoglobin≥7% and <7% (p=0/324, p=0/888). There was no correlation between spiritual well-being and religious activities with fasting blood glucose (P=0/128, p=0/422). But being religious (in general) was significantly associated with fasting blood glucose (P<0/05).
Conclusion: In this study, religious activities and spiritual well-being scores was not significantly different between patients with controlled and uncontrolled blood glucose. Doing case- control and longitudinal studies with greater sample size and assessing self- care activities of these patients is recommended.
Received: 1 Jul 2013
Accepted: 13 Sep 2013
N Rahimi, E Nouhi, N Nakhaee,
Volume 26, Issue 85 (12-2013)
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Background & Aims: The nursing and midwifery students are more spiritual health, better care and interventions for their patients are doing. The present study has been carried out in order to investigate the spiritual well-being and the attitude toward spirituality and spiritual care in nursing and midwifery students of Kerman University of Medical Sciences during 2012.
Material & Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. The population consisted of 222 students of nursing and midwifery studying in Kerman University of Medical Sciences, all of which were chosen as the sample of the study. Palutzian & Ellison questionnaire of spiritual well-being and ( SSCRS ( questionnaire of attitude toward spirituality and spiritual care was used to gather the data. The obtained data were then analyzed through SPSS 20 software using parametric statistical tests such as independent T-test, Anova test and Pearson correlation coefficient.
Re sults: Results showed the average of spiritual well-being and the attitude toward spirituality and spiritual care of nursing and midwifery students was in the good range (93/01 ± 13/78, 57/57 ± 10/70). the except Gener, No significant relationship was statistically observed between the mean of spiritual well-being and another parameters such as age, marital status, academic year, field of study and trainings in spirituality. And except age, No significant relationship was statistically observed between the mean of attitude toward spirituality and spiritual care and another parameters such as, Gener, marital status, academic year, trainings in spirituality, and field of study. (p=0/004,p=0/029) Between two variables, spiritual well-being and attitudes toward spirituality and spiritual care was found to be positively correlate.(p<0/001 )
Conclusion: According to the findings of spiritual health nursing and midwifery students was moderate The significance of these results to address the issue of spirituality in nursing and midwifery students show. It is necessary to promote spirituality and nursing and midwifery students planning to take place.
Received: 8 Oct 2013
Accepted: 25 Dec 2013
E Nouhi, N Nakhaee, N Rahimi,
Volume 27, Issue 90 (10-2014)
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Background & Aim: Spiritual intelligence as the base of individual beliefs affects performance and leads to an increase in flexibility against problems. This study aims to determine spiritual intelligence and attitude towards spirituality and spiritual care in nursing and midwifery students of Kerman University of Medical Sciences in 2012.
Material & Methods: It was a cross sectional, descriptive study. A total of 222 nursing and midwifery students of Kerman University of Medical Sciences were recruited by census. Data was collected by the 42-item Spiritual Intelligence Inventory and The Spirituality and Spiritual Care Rating Scale (SSCRS) and were analyzed by parametric statistical tests (i.e. t-test, ANOVA, and Pearson's Correlation Coefficient) using SPSS-PC (v. 20).
Results: The mean score of spiritual health (150.07±16.98) and attitude towards spirituality and spiritual care (57.57±10.70) of the nursing and midwifery students was at moderate level. Among demographic variables, there was only a significant relationship between age and the mean score of attitude toward spirituality and spiritual care (P= 0.029).
Conclusion: The results of this study suggest the importance of addressing spirituality among nursing and midwifery students. Accordingly, planning to improve the spirituality level of nursing and midwifery students is recommended.
M Almasi, S Mahmoudiani, T Ghasemi,
Volume 28, Issue 93 (4-2015)
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Background & Aim: Infertility is a stressful phenomenon and has psycho-social aspects. This study was carried out with the aim of comparing the quality of life and spiritual health and their different dimensions among fertile and infertile women in Ilam city.
Materials & Methods: It was a cross- sectional, comparative study. The sample consisted of 200 married 15-49 year old women who referred to obstetricians during the second half of 2014. Data was collected by SF36 and spiritual health questionnaire (SWB) and analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics using SPSS-PC (v. 16).
Results: The findings showed that there has been a significant difference between the mean scores of all assessed dimensions and the spiritual health and quality of life of fertile women was better than infertile women. There were also significant relationships between physical health and spiritual health (r=0.332), existential health and physical health (r=0.348), and existential health and quality of life (r=0.281) among fertile women.
Conclusion: Considering the low levels of spiritual health and quality of life among infertile women, it is recommended that obstetricians, gynecologists and midwives, pay special attention not only to therapeutic aspects but also to psychological and social issues related to infertile women.
N Razaghi, F Rafii, S Parvizy, As Sadat Hosseini,
Volume 28, Issue 93 (4-2015)
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Background & Aim: Spirituality is a global phenomenon and everyone experience it. Nurses need to have a common understanding of spirituality before they begin to care for patients. However, there is yet ambiguity and disagreement on the definition and attributes of this concept. The present study was carried out to clarify the concept and reduce the semantic ambiguities in its definition to achieve a uniform, clear and understandable definition of spirituality in nursing.
Material & Methods: Walker and Avant's eight-step model was used as the method. After extensive review of all published articles from 2000 to 2015, 42 articles were included into the analysis. By following the steps of the model, definitions, properties, applications, antecedents, consequences and empirical referents of the concept of spirituality were derived.
Results: According to the analysis, spirituality as a metaphysical or transcendental phenomenon, includes properties of personal, subjective, and inner experience and the power of coordinating other aspects of existence, search for meaning and purpose of life and significant relations (personal, interpersonal and transpersonal (God or a higher power). The consequences of the concept of spirituality include health or relief of suffering, coping, comfort, hope and finally, transcendence. The definition of spirituality will be influenced by the perspective of human-centered philosophy (and secular), or God-centered philosophy. A conceptual model was proposed based on the findings.
Conclusion: The concept of spirituality has different meanings depending on the cultural and philosophical background. In fact, it is a totally context dependent concept. Further research is suggested in this area, especially in the Islamic - Iranian context.
A Valikhani, F Khormaei,
Volume 28, Issue 95 (8-2015)
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Background & Aim: Chronic pain as a disabling disorder dose not completely respond to the routine medical treatments. Consequently identification of the risk factors and psychologic-protective factors of pain such as religion and spirituality seems necessary. The aim of this study was to predict the physical, emotional, and cognitive dimensions of pain based on patience.
Material & Methods: It was a correlational structural equation modeling study. A total of 110 patients with cardiovascular diseases were recruited by convenient sampling from the outpatient clinic of Imam Reza in the city of Shiraz. Data was collected by a researcher made patience scale and chronic pain inventory and analyzed by Pearson correlation analysis and structural equation modeling using SPSS-PS (v.16) and Amos 16.0.
Results: The results showed that patience is negatively correlated with total pain and its physical, emotional, and cognitive dimensions (p< 0.01). There was a significant negative relationship between the subscales of patience, tolerance and consent with total pain and its triple dimensions (p< 0.05). The subscale of delay was negatively associated with total pain and its physical dimension (p< 0.05). There was no significant relationship between transcendence and persistence with pain and its dimensions. The structural equation modeling (SEM) showed that the patience latent variable has strongly predicted the pain (β= -0.44, p< 0.05).
Conclusion: Regarding the findings, it could be concluded that psychological factors especially religious variables play an important role in alleviating pain in cardiovascular diseases. In between, patience as an important variable in the experience of physical, emotional and psychological dimensions of pain could have an important role.
A Vafaei Fooladi, M Rassouli, F Yaghmaie, N Shakeri,
Volume 28, Issue 95 (8-2015)
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Background & Aim: Every year a large number of premature and sick infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care units. This is a stressful event for parents and especially the mother. There is a small amount of information relating to the factors associated with maternal stress in the NICU. As Spirituality is a source of energy and power to cope with stress, the aim of this study was to determine correlation between spiritual wellbeing and stress in mothers of hospitalized newborns in the NICU.
Material & Method: In this descriptive correlational study, 180 mothers of hospitalized newborns in selected hospitals affiliated to Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences were recruited by convenience sampling method. Data collection tools included Demographic characteristics questionnaire, “Parental Stressor Scale: NICU” (PSS: NICU) and “Spiritual well Being Scale” (SWBS). Data were analyzed with SPSS/16 and statistical tests including Descriptive statistics and Pearson’s correlation were used.
Results: The results showed that most of mothers (56.7%) had moderate stress, and 25 percent experienced severe stress. Also, most of the mothers participating in present study (51.1%) had a very high spiritual wellbeing. There was a significant adverse correlation between stress of mothers and her spiritual wellbeing (r= -0.48, p<0.001).
Conclusion: This study has determined correlation between spiritual wellbeing and stress in mothers of hospitalized newborns in the NICU. According to the findings of this research, neonatal special nurses can reduce stress of mothers with identifying mothers who are at risk for stress and providing spiritual support to them.
F Khorashadizadeh, A Heydari, F Heshmati Nabavi, Sr Mazlom, M Ebrahimi,
Volume 28, Issue 97 (12-2015)
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Background & Aims: Recent attentions in nursing discipline to fourth dimension of health, spiritual health, leading to increasing development study to explanation this concept. In Iranian nursing the definition of spiritual health is deficient and delayed. Thus, the aim of this study was to explain the concept of spiritual health based on Islamic view.
Material & Methods: This concept analysis study was done based on Walker & Evant (2005) approach. Database and dictionaries related to Islamic literature were searched. Finally 16 books, 32 articles and 2 theses from various disciplines were retrieved. Qualitative data analysis method and MAXQD7 software were used for data analysis.
Results: Defining attributes of spiritual health embrace 4 categories: romantic creator- orientation, Islamic rationality, task- orientation and latter word- orientation. The consequences of spiritual health were perception of human with two- dimension system, spiritual dignity and being autonomous. The antecedences of spiritual health were being successor, comprehensive permanent purity, sprito- psycho- behavioral balance, perpetuity and permanent.
Conclusion: In Islamic perspective, spiritual health is different from other cultures. Therefore health care provider should pay more attention on meaning of spiritual health based on their culture.
Z Gharehboghlou, M Adib-Hajbaghery, M Hajimohammad Hoseini,
Volume 29, Issue 103 (12-2016)
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Background & Aim: Depression is the fourth leading cause of community disability in the world and it has high prevalence among students. Since spirituality is positively associated to physical and mental health, this study aimed to determine the relationship of spiritual well-being and depression among nursing students in Qom and Kashan Universities of Medical Sciences.
Materials & Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on nursing students of Kashan and Qom Universities of Medical Sciences. Using a two-stage sampling method, 250 nursing students were randomly selected. Data were collected by Beck’s Depression questionnaire, and Paloutzian and Ellison’s spiritual well-being questionnaire. Data analysis was performed using SPSS 11.5. Descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation coefficient, independent samples t-test and ANOVA were used.
Results: The mean total score on the spiritual well-being of students was 71.62 ± 9.09. The mean depression score of the students was 32.40 ± 9.93. Overall, 14.04% of the students had mild depression, 97.6% had a moderate spiritual well-being. Pearson correlation coefficient showed no significant association between the scores of spiritual well-being and depression (P< 0.05).
Conclusion: No significant relationship was found between spiritual well-being and depression in nursing students. Most of the students had a moderate spiritual well-being. Educational authorities should pay more attention to the students’ spiritual well-being.
N Shahgholian, L Mardanian Dehkordi,
Volume 29, Issue 103 (12-2016)
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Background & Aims: End stage renal disease (ESRD) is one the chronic and threatening life disease. The disorders of the disease and its treatment reveal the need to help these patients in various dimension of health. As paying attention to spiritual dimension can have a great impact on health gain; this study was performed to examine the spiritual health in patients undergoing hemodialysis treatment.
Material & Methods: This descriptive analytical study was done in 96 patients selected by census sampling, from three hemodialysis centers of Isfahan University of medical science. Information collected through a questionnaire with two parts: demographics part & Palutzian and Ellison spiritual health questionnaire. The data analyzed by SPSS 16, ANOVA, independent t test, Spearman and Pearson correlation coefficient test.
Results: The results indicated that 25 % of patients had high level, 74% had moderate level and 1% had low level spirituality. There was a significant correlation between the level of education (P =0.002) and marital status (P =0.033) with the level of mental health, but it had no significant relationship with the sex (P=0.28), age (P =00104), the number of children (P =0/465), history of other diseases (P =0.56) and hospitalizations (P =00407).
Conclusion: Findings showed that the level of Spiritual health was moderate in hemodialysis patients and Spirituality health was higher in married and educated patients. As a result for promotion of spirituality health, it is suggested to provide religious-based interventions in people with lower spiritual health.
S Barghandan, J Khalatbari,
Volume 29, Issue 104 (2-2017)
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Background & Aim: The nurses in the emergency department undergo a lot of stress that can influence their quality of life. The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between cognitive emotion regulation and spiritual intelligence with quality of life in the emergency department nurses.
Material & Methods: This study was a descriptive– correlational research including 100 nurses working in the private hospitals of Rasht in 2013. We selected participants by using cluster sampling method. The instruments were the Cognitive emotion regulation, King spiritual intelligence and Quality of life questionnaires. For statistical analysis of data the SPSS software (version 16) and the descriptive statistics, linear regression and multiple stepwise regression was used.
Results: The results showed a significant positive correlation between the cognitive emotion regulation compatible strategies and spiritual intelligence with quality of life of nurses in emergency department (P≤ 0.01) and there was a significant negative correlation between cognitive emotion regulation incompatible strategies and Spiritual intelligence with quality of life of the emergency department nurses (P≤ 0.05).
Conclusion: According to correlation between cognitive regulations of emotional and spiritual relationship with quality of life in the emergency department nurses, then it is necessary to consider training for increasing their quality of life.
E Yazdan Parast, Ss Afrazandeh, H Ghorbani, F Asadi, R Rajabi, L Naseri, F Sekandari,
Volume 30, Issue 105 (4-2017)
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Background & Aim: Spiritual care is an important aspect of health care which has been considered during recent decades. Spiritual care should be considered as an important part of holistic care. Having competency is necessary for delivering good level of spiritual care to patients. The present study has been carried out in order to investigate the spiritual care competence in students at Ferdows Health and Paramedical School during 2014-15.
Materials & Methods: This was a cross-sectional descriptive study. The study population included 240 students at Ferdows Health and Paramedical School. Finally, 190 students, who volunteered to participate in the study, were studied as the study samples. Data about students’ competency in spiritual care were collected, using Spiritual Care Competence Scale. Research data were analyzed using SPSS version 16.
Results: The mean score of students’ spiritual care competency was 101.72 ± 12.69 which indicates that students have a high level of competencies in spiritual care. Independent t-test showed no significant relationship between the mean of spiritual care competency and other parameters such as gender (P = 0.31), marital status (P = 0.1), housing status (P = 0.36), history of clinical practice (P = 0.64). ANOVA test showed that there is a significant difference between the mean scores of spiritual care competency and different academic semesters (P = 0.03).
Conclusion: Reinforcing ethical and spiritual foundations of student's role models (such as professors), programming a unified plan, applying educational strategies, and making emotional educational atmosphere accompanied by trustee people will facilitate spiritual care.
