Background: Spirituality is an important dimension of human existence with a crucial role in health promotion. This study aimed to investigate nurses’ attitudes towards spiritual care and its practice. Methods: It was a descriptive cross-sectional study. The relevant data were collected by Nursing Spiritual Care Perspective Scale (NSCPS). In this study, 166 nurses working in hospitals affiliat...

OBJECTIVE Examine longitudinal relationships between spiritual coping and psychological adjustment among adolescents with chronic illness. METHODS Adolescents (N = 128; M = 14.7 years) with cystic fibrosis or diabetes completed measures of spiritual coping and adjustment at 2 time points ∼2 years apart; parents also reported on adolescent adjustment. Prospective relationships between spiritua...

This article is to review literature from 2011 to 2015 on spiritual care in nursing using CINAHL. In this article, the keywords “systematic review,” “spiritual care,” and “nursing” were used to search the CINAHL database. Initially a total of 19 articles were identified; however, 11 papers were reviewed after excluding the inappropriate articles following six categories as the definition of spi...

Prior studies have shown that spiritual well-being is a protective factor in reducing psychological distress among health care workers (HCWs). An Internet-delivered Mantram Repetition Program (MRP) that teaches mantram (sacred word) repetition, slowing down, and 1-pointed attention was provided to HCWs to enhance spiritual well-being and mindfulness in order to reduce psychological distress tha...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To measure the prevalence of spiritual needs and identify factors associated with spiritual needs among patients with cancer and family caregivers. DESIGN Descriptive, cross-sectional, quantitative. SETTING Inpatients and outpatients at a university medical center in the southwestern United States. SAMPLE 156 patients with cancer and 68 family caregivers who were primar...

companies are always looking to use all possible means to achieve success and effectiveness. today, is notable the use of people with more subjective and skills specific characteristics. the importance of the issue of spirituality and religion, especially spiritual intelligence, felt the various aspects of new era. one of the necessities in the field of anthropology, is according to scientists ...