survey of relationship between spiritual wellbeing with anxiety and some demographic variables in patients with coronary artery disease

background: coronary artery patients had a much anxiety and distress in the acute situation that this stress leads to more ischemia, re-infarction, tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation. on the other hand heart disease affects person's spirituality. although findings of numerous studies revealed significant relation between spiritual well-being and stress in cardiac patients, but paradoxical findings in researches encouraged us to design and perform study of the relationship between spiritual well-being and stress in patients with coronary artery disease. methods: in this descriptive – correlation study, 392 patients with coronary artery disease admitted in special section were enrolled with census method in 6 months. finally 85 patients with inclusion criteria filled the questionnaire (demographic information, spiritual well-being scale and situational spielberger questionnaire). data was analyzed in spss-18 and by using descriptive methods as well as spearman and pearson's correlation coefficients. in present study p-value < 0.05 was significant. findings: mean total score of spiritual well-being was 103.11 ± 9.68 from 120, mean score of existential aspect of spiritual well-being was 45.48± 9.06 from 60 and mean scores of religious aspect was 57.63± 4.20 from 60. also mean scores of situational anxiety was 40.80± 13.03. there was statistically significant relationship between anxiety and existential (p < 0.001; r = -0.46) and religious (p = 0.01; r = -0.26) aspects of spiritual well-being in patients with heart ischemic disease. anxiety and total score of spiritual well-being were also significantly (p < 0.001; r = -0.47). conclusion: this study strongly indicate that coronary arteries patients with higher scores spirituality well being had less anxiety. so spirituality well being was a protective factor against anxiety in these patients.