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A Study of the Relationships between Spiritual Well-being, Perception of Spiritual Needs of Patients and Spiritual Nursing Intervention among Nurses

간호사의 환자에 대한 영적요구인식, 영적안녕 및 영적간호수행과의 관계연구

  • Received : 2014.05.24
  • Accepted : 2014.08.17
  • Published : 2014.08.31
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Abstract

The purpose of the study was to examine the relationships between perception of spiritual needs of patients, spiritual well-being, and spiritual nursing intervention among nurses in order to provide basic information in improving spiritual nursing intervention and developing educational programs for spiritual nursing. The study was a descriptive correlational research. Data were collected by self-reported questionnaires from 199 nurses working in two university hospitals and one general hospital in B city from August 1 to August 30, 2011. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Sheffe's test and Pearson's correlation coefficients. The score of nurses' perception of spiritual needs of patients was 3.65 out of 5. Spiritual well-being in nurses was 3.42 out of 5 and the score of spiritual nursing intervention was 2.19 out of 4. There were significant positive correlations between perception of spiritual needs of patients, spiritual well-being, and spiritual nursing intervention among nurses. The findings suggest that it is needed to develop effective interventions to improve perception of spiritual needs of patients, spiritual well-being and among nurses so that they could be better equipped to provide sufficient spiritual nursing intervention. More studies are required to identify other factors for spiritual nursing intervention.

본 연구는 간호사들의 환자에 대한 영적요구인식, 영적안녕상태, 영적간호수행의 관계를 파악하기 위한 서술적 조사연구이다. 연구대상은 B광역시에 위치한 2개의 대학병원과 1개의 종합병원 간호사 199명을 대상으로 하였다. 연구도구로 Stoll(1979)의 환자에 대한 영적요구인식, Paloutzian, Ellison(1982)에 의해 개발된 영적안녕, Fish, Shelly(1983)의 영적간호수행 측정도구를 사용하였다. 수집된 자료는 SPSS/win 12.0 프로그램을 이용하여 분석하였다. 연구결과로는 첫째, 대상자의 환자에 대한 영적요구인식과 영적안녕 정도는 보통정도였으며 영적간호수행 정도는 낮았다. 둘째 영적간호 수행정도는 근무부서, 직위, 영적간호와 호스피스교육 경험에 따라 유의한 차이가 있었다. 셋째, 환자에 대한 영적요구인식, 영적안녕과 영적간호수행과는 양의 상관관계(r=.311, p<.001; r=.220, p=.002)가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 결론적으로 간호사들의 영적간호수행을 위해서는 먼저 그들의 영적안녕을 증진시키고 간호사로서 환자의 영적요구에 대한 인식의 중요성을 강화하는 표준화된 교육프로그램이 개발되어 활용되어야겠다.

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