Based on the 1991-1995 war experience of peoples of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, I made twelve proposals regarding the following aspects of health, humanitarian work, and human rights: 1. Broadening of the WHO definition of health by including spiritual well-being (absence of hatred) in it, 2. Inclusion of the term genocide into the Index Medicus (MeSH), 3. Establishment of concepts of p...

It is known that health is determined by physical, mental, social, and spiritual factors. During the last decades there has been a considerable increase in the number of studies showing positive associations between spirituality-religiosity and health. The most important works in that area began it be deeds in the 1980 decade and are increasing worldwide. Scientific literature have recorded tha...

ôbjective: we mainly sought to understand the relationship among college students' spiritual well-being, life satisfaction, economic status, and alienation. methods: â sample of 292 undergraduate students (187 females and 105 males) between the ages of 18 and 26 years were selected using the cluster sampling method. then, they completed measurement questionnaires of alienation, satisfactio...

Spritualite sağlık ve esenliğin ayrılmaz bir parçasıdır hemşirelik mesleğinde ayrı öneme sahiptir. Hemşirelik mesleği bakıma odaklı olup, bakımın temel amacı bireyin varoluşunun tüm boyutlarının korunmak, sürdürülmesini sağlamak veya bireye yardımcı olmaktır. Hemşireler bakım verdikleri hastalara sprituel sağlamaktan sorumludur. Ancak yaşamdaki her spritualiteye ihtiyacı vardır, bu nedene hemşi...

background and purpose: based on a holistic model of health care, human beings have biological, psychological, social and spiritual dimensions, which should be considered in the provision of comprehensive care. given the fact that spiritual health coordinates different aspects of human life, we aimed to explore the viewpoints of nurses working in intensive care units about the concept of spirit...

OBJECTIVE Investigators within many disciplines are using measures of well-being, but it is not always clear what they are measuring, or which instruments may best meet their objectives. The aims of this review were to: systematically identify well-being instruments, explore the variety of well-being dimensions within instruments and describe how the production of instruments has developed over...

BACKGROUND Spiritual well-being has become an increasingly important issue for the elderly people. The 12-item Spirituality Index of Well-Being (SIWB) is a well-validated instrument for assessing a patient's current spiritual state. However, the psychometric properties of the SIWB in the Chinese elderly populations are not known. Therefore, this study translated the SIWB into Chinese and evalua...