Abdolah Khorami Markani
1*, Farideh Yaghmaei
2, Mohammad Khodayari fard
31 Department of Nursing, Khoy Medical Sciences Faculty, Urmia Medical Sciences University, Khoy, Iran
2 Department of Nursing, Zanjan Azad Islamic University, Zanjan, Iran
3 Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Education, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Introduction: Oncology nurses should
create a balance in their personal and professional life to provide holistic
care to patients. The more the awareness of spirituality in oncology nurses develops,
the more obviously it manifests itself in their attitudes toward spiritual
care. This study aimed to assess the relationship between oncology nurses'
spiritual wellbeing, and their attitudes toward spiritual care based on
Neumann’s Systems Model.
Methods: This
descriptive correlational study tested the relationships of Neuman system-based
model constructs, named oncology nurses antecedents, their spiritual wellbeing,
and attitudes to spiritual care by using a causal model and path analysis. 130
oncology nurses from 12 Tehran hospitals completed the study questionnaires,
having completed written informed consents. The study administration permission
was approved by Urmia University of medical sciences ethical committee. The collected
data were coded and entered to computer to be analyzed by SPSS 13. We used path
analysis and multiple regressions for assessing the relationships among the
variables of the hypothesized study model.
Results: The
model testing revealed, from four antecedents’ predictors’ variables, only age
and spiritual wellbeing had a direct and meaningful relationship with oncology
nurses’ attitudes towards spiritual care. The nurses’ antecedent and mediator
variable, and spiritual wellbeing explained 32.5% of the variance in their
attitudes towards spiritual care. Moreover, the nurses’ spiritual wellbeing was
found to have a positive relationship with their attitude to spiritual care (β=
0.450).
Conclusion: However, the study model and its constructs proved to
be quite efficient in indicating oncology nurses’ attitudes to spiritual
care-related factors, but it is not a comprehensive model and other studies are
required for its empirical testing.