Volume 24, Issue 101, January - February, 2020

A study of the state of spiritual health and its relation to self-efficacy of nurses

Moradali Zareipour¹, Zhila Mohammad Rezaei², Farzaneh Jafari³, Sheiyda Ghaderzadeh^4♦

¹PhD of Health Education and Health Promotion, Health System Research Unit, Urmia Health Center, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran
²MSc in midwifery, Department of Midwifery, Urmia Branch, Islamic Azad University, Urmia, Iran
³M.B in Midwife, Urmia Health Center, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran
⁴MSc in Educational Psychology Health System Research Unit, Urmia Health Center, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran.

^♦Corresponding author
MSc in Educational Psychology Health System Research Unit, Urmia Health Center, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran Email: ghaderzadhsheiyda@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

Introduction and Objective: Spiritual health is an important and prominent aspect of a healthy life that transforms people's lives from material life to spiritual life. According to the importance of spiritual health and its influencing factors, this study aimed to investigate the state of spiritual health and its relation to self-efficacy of nurses. Methods: This study is a descriptive-analytical study. Using multi-stage random sampling, 400 nurses were enrolled from public hospitals of Urmia. Spiritual health was assessed using Palutzian-Elison spiritual well-being questionnaire and self-efficacy questionnaire was assessed by using Scherer general self-efficacy questionnaire. Data were analyzed by using SPSS 20 statistical software. Statistics and statistical methods of variance analysis and regression analysis were used to analyze the data. Results: the results of this study showed that the intellectual health score of 55.4 % nurses were moderate and 44.6% of them had high spiritual health score. Spiritual health was significantly correlated with gender, age, and economic status. Also, the results showed that there is a significant relationship between spiritual health and mental health (r=0.76). Regression results showed that spiritual health (p <0.001) was significantly able to explain 0.64 variance of nurses selfefficacy. Conclusion: The results of this study support the importance of spiritual health in predicting the self-efficacy of nurses. Therefore, it seems that the promotion of spiritual health in nurses can lead to an increase in self-efficacy of nurses to make recommendations for improving health and preventing illnesses in hospitalized patients.

Keywords: Spiritual Health, Self-efficacy, Nurses

Medical Science, 2020, 24(101), 407-414

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