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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Main Authors: ali nobahri, elham fathi, fateme malekshahi beiranvand, abolfazl hatami varzaneh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences 2022-03-01
Series:Journal of Community Health Research
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Online Access:http://jhr.ssu.ac.ir/article-1-736-en.html
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description 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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spelling doaj.art-ecdfa9f636ad440f87d281eaa36c49342022-12-21T23:33:54ZengShahid Sadoughi University of Medical SciencesJournal of Community Health Research2322-56882345-26092022-03-011113135The Death awareness and Spiritual Experience of Health Care Workers during Coronavirus Outbreakali nobahri0elham fathi1fateme malekshahi beiranvand2abolfazl hatami varzaneh3 Nekoei-Hedayati-Forghani Hospital, Qom University of Medical Science, Qom, Iran Assistant professor of Counseling at Hazrat-e Masoumeh University in Qom, Iran. Ph.D. in Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran Assistant professor of Counseling at Hazrat-e Masoumeh University in Qom, Iran. 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 patientshttp://jhr.ssu.ac.ir/article-1-736-en.htmlcoronavirus outbreakdeath awarenesshealth care workersspiritual experience
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coronavirus outbreak
death awareness
health care workers
spiritual experience
title The Death awareness and Spiritual Experience of Health Care Workers during Coronavirus Outbreak
title_full The Death awareness and Spiritual Experience of Health Care Workers during Coronavirus Outbreak
title_fullStr The Death awareness and Spiritual Experience of Health Care Workers during Coronavirus Outbreak
title_full_unstemmed The Death awareness and Spiritual Experience of Health Care Workers during Coronavirus Outbreak
title_short The Death awareness and Spiritual Experience of Health Care Workers during Coronavirus Outbreak
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death awareness
health care workers
spiritual experience
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