Spiritual Well-being and religious coping strategies among hemodialysis patients

spiritual wellbeing and religious activities was known as important source cope with chronic disease induced problems.

The study was done for determination of spiritual wellbeing status and religious coping among hemodialysis patients.

in this descriptive and analytical study، 95 hemodialysis were selected via convenience sampling methods. Paloutzian & Ellison spiritual wellbeing scale and Pargament religious coping scale were used as date gathering tools. Data analysis was done in SPSS 16 software environment with descriptive statistical tests، Pearson correlation coefficient، independent t-test and one way ANOVA. In all tests، level of significance considered less than 0. 05.

Mean and standard deviations of spiritual wellbeing، positive and negative religious coping scores were 91. 98±15. 09، 23. 38±4. 17 and 11. 46±4. 34. 52. 6 percent of patients have higher then mean score in spiritual wellbeing scale. 53. 6 percent of patients have higher then mean score in positive religious coping and the portion about negative religious coping was 37. 9 percent. Spiritual wellbeing had significant correlation with positive religious coping (r=0. 463، P=0. 000) and There were no reveres significant correlations between Spiritual wellbeing and negative religious (r=-0. 430، P=0. 000). There was no significant difference between two genders in spiritual wellbeing status and religious coping. With age increasing، the spiritual wellbeing score was increased and this relation was statistically significant.

finding indicated spiritual wellbeing of hemodialysis patients were in partially favorite level and according to the positive effect of efficient religious coping strategies، focus on religious coping reinforcement in routine patients care، and could improve spiritual wellbeing and psychological aspect of quality of life.