COMPARING THE SPIRITUAL CARE VIEW POINT OF NURSES AND FAMILIES OF KIDS ADMITTED TO PEDIATRIC HOSPITALS IN KERMANSHAH

  • Beheshteh Tabarsy M. Sc. in Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran Medical Sciences Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
  • Maryam Janatolmakan Nursing Graduate Student, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran Medical Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
  • Zahra Abdolreza Gharebagh M. Sc. in Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran Medical Sciences Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Keywords: Spiritual care, Nurse, Family, Children

Abstract

Introduction: spiritual care, to create a sensation of wellbeing and calming the patient and his family, is essential for nurses to understanding of spirituality; it can be efficient in the handling of their interaction with patients and families. The present work aimed to compare spiritual care from the perspective of nurses and families of pediatric patients in the hospitals of Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences in 2014-15.

Methods: This field is a comparative study, and purposive sampling methods are usable. The study population included 216 (86 nurses and 130 families of hospitalized children) Hospital in Kermanshah were selected. The two-part questionnaire, which includes demographic information and view pastoral care. The content validity and test-retest reliability measured. Data analysis using SPSS 22 statistical software, independent t-tests, ANOVA, Tukey and Pearson
correlation test performed.

Results: The main view of pastoral care for nurses and families of hospitalized children by 87/48 and 92/35 respectively. There was no substantial divergence between the two groups (P<0/000) and average view of pastoral care in the families of the nurses was higher (P<0/000).

Conclusion: These results indicated that the views of families of hospitalized children were higher than nurses in public health advice to its significant role in the central importance of pastoral concern. That nurses provide pastoral care in the clinical performance. Consequently, planning and execution of training policies pastoral care staff, should be part of the educational goals.

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Beheshteh Tabarsy, Maryam Janatolmakan, Zahra Abdolreza Gharebagh. COMPARING THE SPIRITUAL CARE VIEW POINT OF NURSES AND FAMILIES OF KIDS ADMITTED TO PEDIATRIC HOSPITALS IN KERMANSHAH. Med. res. chronicles [Internet]. 2016Apr.30 [cited 2024Apr.29];3(02):167-75. Available from: https://medrech.com/index.php/medrech/article/view/163
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