Relationship between spiritual well-being and quality of life in hemodialysis patients

Hossein Ebrahimi; Zahra Ashrafi; Gholamreza Eslampanah; Fatemeh Noruzpur

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Relationship between spiritual well-being and quality of life in hemodialysis patients

Author(s):

Hossein Ebrahimi¹,

Zahra Ashrafi^2,*,

Gholamreza Eslampanah³,

Fatemeh Noruzpur⁴

1Health-Related Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, Iran

2Faculty Member, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, Iran

3Bachelor of Nursing, Imam Hossein Hospital Dialysis Center, Shahroud, Iran

4Bachelor of Nursing, Imam Hossein Hospital, Shahroud, Iran

Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Sciences:Vol. 1, issue 3; 41-48

Published online:Mar 03, 2015

Article type:Research Article

Received:Sep 13, 2014

Accepted:Nov 08, 2014

How to Cite:Hossein Ebrahimi, Zahra Ashrafi, Gholamreza Eslampanah, Fatemeh Noruzpur, Relationship between spiritual well-being and quality of life in hemodialysis patients.J Nurs Midwifery Sci.2015;1(3):e141397.

Abstract

Background and Purpose: Spiritual health is one of the important aspects of health status that may be influenced by QOL.
Researchers have shown the relationship between spiritual well-being & a person's general health, so that religion and spirituality are
considered the important resources for coping with stressful life events. This study aims to identify the relationship between spiritual
well-being and quality of life in hemodialysis patients.
Method: In this descriptive analytical study, 72 hemodialysis patients were selected using convenience sampling method.
Information was collected by Paloutzian spiritual health and quality of life questionnaires (SF36). Data were analyzed by using
descriptive and analytical statistics (Pearson correlation coefficient, t-test, ANOVA).
Results: In line with these findings, the quality of life of the patients (47.8) 88.47 and their spiritual health scores (21.13) 88/91, most
were moderate.There was no significant relationship between spiritual well-being and QOL. But there was a significant positive
correlation between spiritual existential aspect of well-being and the dimensions of fatigue (P=0.02, r=0.26), emotional health
(P=0.003, r=0.34), social functioning (P=0.01, r=0.29) and general health (P=0.01, r=0.29) and social performance (P=0.01, r=0.27).
Also social performance had a significant positive correlation with spiritual well-being.
Conclusion: According to the results, a significant relationship was observed between some aspects of quality of life and spiritual
well-being. In order to understand the factors affecting the quality of life, exploring strategies to improve it and strengthen some
aspects of spiritual well-being that affect the quality of life in hemodialysis patients is emphasized.

Keywords

Hemodialysis

Quality of life

Spiritual well-being

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