UNLABELLED This study was conducted to identify the relationship among spiritual well-being, depression and perceived stress. Participants were 518 nursing students located in K province, Korea. DESIGN Exploratory design was used for this study. Data were collected and analyzed by t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficients. The results were as follows; 1) Participants' mean scores were S...

From drawing to sculpture, poetry to journaling, and dance to music and song, the arts can have a major impact on patients' spiritual well-being and health. The arts empower patients to fulfill the basic human drive to create and give patients a sense of possibility. Through creative expression, patients regain a feeling of wholeness, individually and as part of the larger world. Although spiri...

a bstract background: spiritual care should be considered an important part of holistic and multidisciplinary care and it has not been given much importance so far. we should begin with student nurses, who will soon be clinicians, to fi nd out about potentiality of the nursing profession to put spiritual care into practice. little has been known about spiritual well-being, spirituality, and spi...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether therapeutic yoga improves the quality of life of patients with cancer. DATA SOURCES Search of MEDLINE database (1950-2010) using key words yoga, cancer, and quality of life. STUDY SELECTION Priority was given to randomized controlled clinical studies conducted to determine the effect of yoga on typical symptoms of patients with cancer in North America. SYNTH...

BACKGROUND Bullying in childhood is ubiquitous and associated with a number of identified negative outcomes in both childhood and adulthood. However, the relationship between being bullied in childhood and religious/spiritual status in adulthood has never been explored. METHOD Using a cross-sectional sample of 324 consecutive internal medicine outpatients and a survey methodology, we examined...

Nursing theorists, as the author of the Book of Ecclesiastes, recognize that in their world of caring for the sick there is indeed “a time to be born and a time to die”; a time for planting and a time to harvest what has been planted. They know that in their patients’ lives there is “a time for every matter under heaven.” Thus, the early “grand theorists” of nursing developed conceptual schemas...

Purpose The health and well-being of America’s youth is increasingly in jeopardy due to a ‘screen-based’ culture that decreases exposure to the natural world. We hypothesized that interactions with nature would promote physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual well-being. To investigate this claim, we surveyed young adults at a three-week science and wilderness camp in rural West Virginia.

The Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Spiritual Well-Being (FACIT-Sp-12) is a 12-item questionnaire that measures spiritual well-being in people with cancer and other chronic illnesses. Cancer patients, psychotherapists, and religious/spiritual experts provided input on the development of the items. It was validated with a large, ethnically diverse sample. It has been successfull...

BACKGROUND Several studies are available on the lifestyle, psychological and mental health of the elderly adults. This study aimed to compare the spiritual well-being and happiness in the elderly who lived in sanitariums with those lived in the community. METHODS A comparative study was conducted on 384 elderly adults. A census sampling was used in sanitariums and a convenience sampling was p...

Fisher (1998) proposed a spiritual well-being model, comprising the domains of personal, communal, environmental and transcendental well-being, and a single global spiritual well-being dimension. This paper reports on four studies aimed at testing Fisher’s theoretical model, and establishing the validity and reliability of a new self-rating questionnaire (Spiritual Well-Being Questionnaire; SWB...