| Summary: | 碩士 === 長榮大學 === 護理學系碩士班 === 99 === The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between spiritual health and spiritual care behaviors among clinical nurses. A cross-section research design was developed and implemented in which 769 nurses were recruited from a medical center located in Southern Taiwan. The data were collected from July 10th to July 30th, 2010. A self-administered questionnaire was employed to gather data on respondents’ demographic, spiritual health status and self-reported spiritual care behavior information. A total of 690 valid questionnaires were collected (98.9% retrieved).The coefficient in dependent t-test , one-way ANOVA, and Pearson’s correlation were applied to analyze subjects’ responses.
Major research findings included: (1) The mean scores for spiritual health and spiritual care behavior were 77.5 and 29 respectively. (2) Personal background including age, working years, perceived health status, religious belief and taken spiritual related courses all had significant influences on nurses’ spiritual health status. On the other hand, nurses’ spiritual care behavior was influenced by age, working years, marriage and taken spiritual related courses. (3) A positive correlation was found between spiritual health status and spiritual care behavior among clinical nurses in this study.
The findings of this study may serve as useful references for clinical nursing, nursing education and nursing administration in developing spiritual health promotion related strategies to improve quality of nursing care.
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