Relationship between Nurses' Spiritual Well-being and Nurses' perception of competence in providing spiritual care for patients

Abstract

Objective: As an important factor affecting human's health consequences, spiritual well-being has been the center of attention in recent years. According to literature, nurses' spiritual well-being affects how they provide spiritual care. This paper, thus, aims to find the relationship between nurses' spiritual well-being and their perception of their competence in providing spiritual care for patients in Tabriz Educational-Therapeutic centers Material and Methods: This is cross sectional-analytical research which is conducted on 555 nurses of medical-educational centers in Tabriz in 2014. Data were gathered using three-part questionnaire including demographic information and Spiritual Care Competence Scale (SCCS) and spiritual well-being scale (SWBS). Data analysis was done using descriptive (frequency, percent, mean, standard deviation) and inferential (independent t, Pearson, Spearman, ANOVA Tukey test) statistics using SPSS 21 software. Results: Results showed that nurses' spiritual well-being is significantly and directly associated with their perception of spiritual care delivery (P<0.05). Also, Mean score of nurses' perception of their care competence 95.2 (14.4) and Mean score of spiritual well-being 92.4 (12.3) were both above average (P<0.05). Type of employment and experience in participating workshops had significant relationship with the nurses’ perception of their competence for providing spiritual care and spiritual well-being  (P<0.05). Conclusion: Research findings indicate that nurses' perception of their spiritual well-being and spiritual care competence were above average. There was also a significant and positive correlation between spiritual health and the nurses' perception of their spiritual care competence

 

Keywords

• spiritual care, spirituality, spiritual well-being , nurses

Relationship between Nurses' Spiritual Well-being and Nurses' perception of competence in providing spiritual care for patients

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