Exploring Graduated Student's Experience of Spiritual Health Status and Related Skills during Study: A Study with Content Analysis Approach

Spiritual health as one of the most important aspects of health, determines a person's integrity and has important role in increasing productivity, motivation and ability of individuals especially students. The purpose of this study was exploring graduate students’ experience of spiritual health status and related skills during study.
This research was done through content analysis approach in 2016.15 graduate student's were investigated via purposeful sampling. Experiences of Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences about spiritual health status and related skills during study was evaluated. Inclusion criteria were including willingness to participate in the study, students who were graduated in the recent week of study and had ability to speak fluently. Data was gathered using individual, group in-depth semi-structured interviews, observation, and field note. Interviews recorded, typed, and analyzed using content analysis method. Criteria such as credibility, dependability, confirmability and transferability were used to rigor and trustworthy of data.
15 participants, including 10 women and five men aged between 23 and 36 years participated in this study. The analysis of qualitative data resulted in four major themes “strengthening interpersonal characteristics", "Improving communication skills", "Lack of intrapersonal characteristics promotion", and "lack of improving relationship with the environment".
The results of the study showed that universities can change student's self-concept and raise who are responsible, purposeful, self-confident and determined. On the other hand, if the university had poor performance on student's social protections, student's personal and social identity will not grow.