Abstract:
BACKGROUND: The spiritual well-being of nursing students should be high since they will be the future of the profession, replace the seasoned nurses, learn how to handle these situations, and develop their problem-solving and open-mindedness. Objective: The aim of the study was to determine the spiritual well-being of nursing students and lady health visitors. METHODOLOGY: This study used a cross-sectional descriptive research design and was conducted over a period of four months, from October 10, 2022, to January 15, 2022, in Khyber Pukhtankhwa nursing institutions that run both LHV and 4-year BSN programs. The study sample size was 416 using a purposive sampling technique. A valid and reliable Gomez and Fisher spiritual well-being questionnaire was used for data collection. Descriptive statistics and independent t-tests were used as inferential statistics in SPSS 23.0. RESULTS: The total number of study participants was 416, with a higher number of male students (54.8%) than female students (45.2%). The mean age of was 21.6 ± 5.9. Students in the BSN program were higher in number (75.5%) compared to LHV students (24.5%). The overall spiritual well-being of the students was moderate (3.8 ± 0.51, while the lady health visitors 3.85 ± 0.47 was higher than the BSN students 3.79 ± 0.52, and the mean scores of female participants were high in the personal, communal, categories compared to male participants. Furthermore, there was no difference in the mean score of BSN and LHV students except in the environmental category. CONCLUSION: The study concludes that the overall spiritual well-being of the students was moderate. The study concluded that there was no difference in the mean score of personal, communal, and transcendent spirituality, while there was only a difference in the mean score of environmental spirituality. Furthermore, spiritual well-being could be part of nursing education.
Page(s):
161-166
Published:
Journal: journal of Peoples University of medical and Health Sciences, Pakistan., Volume: 13, Issue: 2, Year: 2023
Keywords:
Nursing Students
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Wellbeing
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Spirituality
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Religious