Attitudes towards spirituality and spiritual care among nursing employees in hospitals
Introduction: Understanding spirituality and spiritual care is a prerequisite for holistic care. The research goal was to describe nurses' attitudes towards spirituality and spiritual care. Methods: The study was carried out between 2015 and 2016 using a quantitative non-experimental method. Th...
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| description | Introduction: Understanding spirituality and spiritual care is a prerequisite for holistic care. The research goal was to describe nurses' attitudes towards spirituality and spiritual care.
Methods: The study was carried out between 2015 and 2016 using a quantitative non-experimental method. The Spirituality and Spiritual Care Rating Scale Questionnaire was given to a sample of 182 nursing care employees, mostly women (n = 153, 88.4 %), with completed higher (n = 93, 53.8 %) or secondary (n = 75, 43.4 %) education, from four Slovenian hospitals. The questionnaire had adequate internal consistency (Cronbach alpha = 0.83).
Results: The highest agreement (x = 4.27, s = 0.82) was reached on the statement which describes spiritual care as respecting patient's privacy, dignity, cultural and religious beliefs. Participants also agreed with the statement that they provide spiritual care by demonstrating kindness, care, and cheerfulness (x = 4.2, s = 0.76), but they expressed uncertainty about the statement that spirituality and spiritual care are fundamental aspects of nursing care (x = 2.88, s = 1.08).
Discussion and conclusion: Participants connect spirituality with an understanding of themselves and the world, rather than only with religion and sacral objects. The research has confirmed the findings of previous Slovenian studies that nurses give priority to meeting patients' physical needs before spiritual ones probably also as a result of a lack of knowledge and professional guidance on spiritual care. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cc1b866e99de40bb9b3a38342a87987d2022-12-21T20:46:36ZengNurses and Midwives Association of SloveniaObzornik zdravstvene nege1318-29512350-45952019-03-0153110.14528/snr.2019.53.1.313Attitudes towards spirituality and spiritual care among nursing employees in hospitalsTanja Montanič Starc0Igor Karnjuš1Katarina Babnik2Valdoltra Orthopedic Hospital, Jadranska cesta 31, 6280 Ankaran, SloveniaUniversity of Primorska, Faculty of Health Sciences, Polje 42, 6310 Izola, SloveniaUniversity of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of Psychology, Aškerčeva 2, 1000 Ljubljana, SloveniaIntroduction: Understanding spirituality and spiritual care is a prerequisite for holistic care. The research goal was to describe nurses' attitudes towards spirituality and spiritual care. Methods: The study was carried out between 2015 and 2016 using a quantitative non-experimental method. The Spirituality and Spiritual Care Rating Scale Questionnaire was given to a sample of 182 nursing care employees, mostly women (n = 153, 88.4 %), with completed higher (n = 93, 53.8 %) or secondary (n = 75, 43.4 %) education, from four Slovenian hospitals. The questionnaire had adequate internal consistency (Cronbach alpha = 0.83). Results: The highest agreement (x = 4.27, s = 0.82) was reached on the statement which describes spiritual care as respecting patient's privacy, dignity, cultural and religious beliefs. Participants also agreed with the statement that they provide spiritual care by demonstrating kindness, care, and cheerfulness (x = 4.2, s = 0.76), but they expressed uncertainty about the statement that spirituality and spiritual care are fundamental aspects of nursing care (x = 2.88, s = 1.08). Discussion and conclusion: Participants connect spirituality with an understanding of themselves and the world, rather than only with religion and sacral objects. The research has confirmed the findings of previous Slovenian studies that nurses give priority to meeting patients' physical needs before spiritual ones probably also as a result of a lack of knowledge and professional guidance on spiritual care.https://obzornik.zbornica-zveza.si/index.php/ObzorZdravNeg/article/view/313spiritualityspiritual careattitudesbeliefsnurses |
| spellingShingle | Tanja Montanič Starc Igor Karnjuš Katarina Babnik Attitudes towards spirituality and spiritual care among nursing employees in hospitals Obzornik zdravstvene nege spirituality spiritual care attitudes beliefs nurses |
| title | Attitudes towards spirituality and spiritual care among nursing employees in hospitals |
| title_full | Attitudes towards spirituality and spiritual care among nursing employees in hospitals |
| title_fullStr | Attitudes towards spirituality and spiritual care among nursing employees in hospitals |
| title_full_unstemmed | Attitudes towards spirituality and spiritual care among nursing employees in hospitals |
| title_short | Attitudes towards spirituality and spiritual care among nursing employees in hospitals |
| title_sort | attitudes towards spirituality and spiritual care among nursing employees in hospitals |
| topic | spirituality spiritual care attitudes beliefs nurses |
| url | https://obzornik.zbornica-zveza.si/index.php/ObzorZdravNeg/article/view/313 |
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