معنویت و عوامل مرتبط با آن در بیماران تحت درمان با همودیالیز

Background and Purpose: Spiritual well-being is one of the essential&nbsp;aspects of health in coping with disease. Since one of the major bases of diseases is spiritual insecurity due to lack of spiritual dimension, this study&nbsp;aimed to investigate spiritual health and its related factors in hemodialysis patients. Materials and Methods: This descriptive-analytical study was conducted&nbsp;on 81 hemodialysis patients referring to the Imam Khomeini Hospital of Sari, Iran, in 2015. Sampling was performed by stratified census method.&nbsp;The data was collected using a demographic form and Palotzian and Elison&nbsp;spiritual health questionnaire. To analyze the data, descriptive and analytical&nbsp;statistics, including mean and Pearson correlation coefficient, were used in&nbsp;SPSS 20. Results: The mean scores of spiritual, religious, and existential health&nbsp;were 70.93&plusmn;16.79, 36.54&plusmn;8.71, and 34.39&plusmn;8.61, respectively. There was not a significant relationship between gender, number of family members,&nbsp;number of children, residence condition, hookah use, marital and economic&nbsp;status, and spiritual health of patients (P>0.05). However, a significant&nbsp;relationship was found between age, housing condition, and smoking status&nbsp;of the patients with their spiritual health (P<0.05). Conclusion: The results of the present study showed that most of the&nbsp;patients had an average spiritual health and that their religious health was slightly higher than their existential health, which is normal in our culture.&nbsp;Lack of spiritual health, particularly in chronic disease patients, is a predisposing factor for many mental, social, and somatic problems. Therefore, spirituality and religious practices such as praying play crucial roles in accepting the disease.