Reexamining the Influential Components of Spiritual Health in Human Health

Spiritual health is a branch of health that can be considered as inclusive of all dimensions of health, so that by achieving spiritual perfection, other dimensions of health will be achieved. Spiritual health is a state of having and enjoying a sense of acceptance, connection to a superior power, and taking the path in line with the will of that power and integrity in the whole being, based on the path determined by the higher power (God). Therefore, in this research, we decided to reexamine and study the different effects of spiritual health on human health to provide the ground for further future studies.

This research is a descriptive library-based method. For collecting data the keywords of spiritual health, spirituality, spiritual health-human health, and spirituality-human health and their English equivalents were searched in the time range of 2010-2020 on the databases of Google Scholar, Noormagz, SID, Scopus, Pabomed and Megairan. In this period, more than 150 sources were reviewed. Data related to research questions, which mainly included correlational studies and those examining the effectiveness of various aspects of spiritual health on human health, were examined. The authors reported to conflict of interests.

After reviewing the selected documents, , it was found that most of the studies have been focused on the effect of spiritual health on general health, mental health, the course of the diseases, quality of life, and improvement of social functions and the relationship between them.

Analysis of the content of selected articles showed that spiritual can be stated that that the promotion of spiritual health in people spiritual health is effective in general health, improving the course of diseases, mental health, can be effective. There is a need to develop appropriate measures for assessing spiritual health based on different cultures and age groups and turn spiritual health into one of the widely used scientific fields.