The Death awareness and Spiritual Experience of Health Care Workers during Coronavirus Outbreak
Introduction: The present study aims to identify the death awareness and spiritual experience of the health care workers in Iran. Methods: Eleven health care workers involved with Coronavirus patients were selected through purposeful sampling and had in-depth semi-structured interviews. Conventiona...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences
2022-03-01
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| Series: | Journal of Community Health Research |
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| Online Access: | http://jhr.ssu.ac.ir/article-1-736-en.html |
| Summary: | Introduction: The present study aims to identify the death awareness and spiritual experience of the health care workers in Iran.
Methods: Eleven health care workers involved with Coronavirus patients were selected through purposeful sampling and had in-depth semi-structured interviews. Conventional content analysis was utilized to analyze the data.
Results: The conventional content analysis revealed four themes: 1- Increasing death awareness 2- Effective spiritual strategies; 3- Effective spiritual beliefs;
4- Pleasant and unpleasant existential experiences.
Conclusion: We can conclude that health care workers in dealing with epidemics such as coronavirus as a front-line force need spiritual heath to help themselves and the patients |
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| ISSN: | 2322-5688 2345-2609 |