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Health Care Providers' Perception of Their Competence in Providing Spiritual Care for Patients
BACKGROUND: Spiritual care is an important part of health-care provision. Spiritual care can improve patients' health. One of the requirements for providing appropriate spiritual care for patients is having the required competence. AIM: This study was conducted to investigate the perception of...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5294439/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28216864 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-1075.197957 |
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author | Ebrahimi, Hossein Areshtanab, Hossein Namdar Jafarabadi, Mohammad Asghari Khanmiri, Soraya Golipoor |
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description | BACKGROUND: Spiritual care is an important part of health-care provision. Spiritual care can improve patients' health. One of the requirements for providing appropriate spiritual care for patients is having the required competence. AIM: This study was conducted to investigate the perception of health-care providers of their own competence in providing spiritual cares for patients hospitalized in medical-educational centers of Iran. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: This study is a cross-sectional, analytical research conducted on 555 nurses of medical-educational centers in Tabriz, Iran, in 2014. Data were collected using a two-part questionnaire including demographic information and the spiritual care competence scale. Data analysis was performed using descriptive (frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation) and inferential (independent t-test, Pearson, Spearman, ANOVA with Tukey test) statistics in SPSS software version 13. RESULTS: Results showed that the mean score for nurses' perception of their competence in providing spiritual care for patients was average, that is, 95.2 ± 14.4. Mean score of nurses' perception of their competence in providing spiritual care in each aspect was significantly higher than average (P < 0.05). The highest score was related to individual support and consulting with patients, that is, 21.1 (4.0), and the lowest score was related to reference to experts, that is, 9.5 (2.3). The type of employment and participation in workshops had significant relationships with nurses' perception of their competence for providing spiritual care (P < 0.05). CONCLUSION: The findings indicate that authorities and policymakers should take steps in planning for nurses' training for promoting their competence in providing spiritual care for patients; therefore, holding workshops is necessary. |
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spelling | pubmed-52944392017-02-17 Health Care Providers' Perception of Their Competence in Providing Spiritual Care for Patients Ebrahimi, Hossein Areshtanab, Hossein Namdar Jafarabadi, Mohammad Asghari Khanmiri, Soraya Golipoor Indian J Palliat Care Original Article BACKGROUND: Spiritual care is an important part of health-care provision. Spiritual care can improve patients' health. One of the requirements for providing appropriate spiritual care for patients is having the required competence. AIM: This study was conducted to investigate the perception of health-care providers of their own competence in providing spiritual cares for patients hospitalized in medical-educational centers of Iran. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: This study is a cross-sectional, analytical research conducted on 555 nurses of medical-educational centers in Tabriz, Iran, in 2014. Data were collected using a two-part questionnaire including demographic information and the spiritual care competence scale. Data analysis was performed using descriptive (frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation) and inferential (independent t-test, Pearson, Spearman, ANOVA with Tukey test) statistics in SPSS software version 13. RESULTS: Results showed that the mean score for nurses' perception of their competence in providing spiritual care for patients was average, that is, 95.2 ± 14.4. Mean score of nurses' perception of their competence in providing spiritual care in each aspect was significantly higher than average (P < 0.05). The highest score was related to individual support and consulting with patients, that is, 21.1 (4.0), and the lowest score was related to reference to experts, that is, 9.5 (2.3). The type of employment and participation in workshops had significant relationships with nurses' perception of their competence for providing spiritual care (P < 0.05). CONCLUSION: The findings indicate that authorities and policymakers should take steps in planning for nurses' training for promoting their competence in providing spiritual care for patients; therefore, holding workshops is necessary. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5294439/ /pubmed/28216864 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-1075.197957 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Indian Journal of Palliative Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Ebrahimi, Hossein Areshtanab, Hossein Namdar Jafarabadi, Mohammad Asghari Khanmiri, Soraya Golipoor Health Care Providers' Perception of Their Competence in Providing Spiritual Care for Patients |
title | Health Care Providers' Perception of Their Competence in Providing Spiritual Care for Patients |
title_full | Health Care Providers' Perception of Their Competence in Providing Spiritual Care for Patients |
title_fullStr | Health Care Providers' Perception of Their Competence in Providing Spiritual Care for Patients |
title_full_unstemmed | Health Care Providers' Perception of Their Competence in Providing Spiritual Care for Patients |
title_short | Health Care Providers' Perception of Their Competence in Providing Spiritual Care for Patients |
title_sort | health care providers' perception of their competence in providing spiritual care for patients |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5294439/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28216864 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-1075.197957 |
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