Nurse’s spiritual care competence in Ethiopia: A multicenter cross-sectional study

Seid, Kalid; Abdo, Adem

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“…Prior investigations have revealed a correlation of personal factors such as age, personal values, and previous work experience with spiritual care competency in nurses [ 28 – 31 ]. On the other hand, external factors such as the policy of institutions and provision of educational programs were also found to be essential for enhancing nurses’ spiritual care abilities [ 28 – 31 ].…”

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Factors affecting spiritual care competency of mental health nurses: a questionnaire-based cross-sectional study

Han

Hung

Cheng³

et al. 2023

BMC Nurs

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Background Although providing spiritual care is an important part of holistic nursing care for psychiatric patients, factors associated with spiritual care competency in mental health nurses remain unclear. The aim of our study was to explore a possible association of personal and external factors with spiritual care competency in mental health nurses. Methods This prospective questionnaire-based cross-sectional study was conducted by inviting mental health nurses from mental health hospitals and tertiary referral centers. Personality traits and spiritual care competency were assessed by using [1] “big-five Mini-Markers” questionnaire, and [2] spiritual care competency scale, respectively. From the 250 mental health nurses being invited, 239 valid questionnaires were valid for final analysis. Statistical analyses including descriptive statistics, ANOVAs, t-tests, and hierarchical multiple regression models were used to investigate the associations between personal/external factors and their spiritual care competency in mental health nurses. Results The mean age of the 239 participants was 35.96 ± 8.11 and the mean years of working experience was 9.41 ± 7.06. Over 90% of them had no experience of providing spiritual care. There were significant positive correlations of spiritual care competency with the experience of delivering spiritual care (p < 0.001), previous participation in spiritual care education programs (p = 0.045), a longer working experience (p = 0.014), and a higher education level (postgraduate vs. college, p = 0.006), as well as the personality components of “Conscientiousness” (p < 0.001), “Agreeableness” (p < 0.001), “Extraversion” (p = 0.03), and “Openness/Intellect” (p < 0.001). Conclusions Both personal and external factors may be related to the self-perception of spiritual care competency among mental health nurses. These findings may help mental health nurses understand the possible positive and negative associations of their personality components with their spiritual care abilities. Moreover, our identification of the positive impacts of educational programs and previous experience of spiritual care on spiritual care competency may underscore the importance of tailoring appropriate training programs to cater for the individual needs of mental health nurses.

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Factors affecting spiritual care competency of mental health nurses: a questionnaire-based cross-sectional study

Han

Hung

Cheng³

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BMC Nurs

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“…The current general standards for nurses' SCC should include intrapersonal spirituality, interpersonal spirituality, spiritual care assessment and planning, and spiritual care intervention and evaluation (van Leeuwen et al, 2021). For nurses, SCC is one of the main professional skills in best nursing practice and should be included in the evaluation of development of the nursing profession and nursing service standards (Seid & Abdo, 2022; Sezer & Ozturk, 2022).…”

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Association between spiritual care competency and perceived professional benefit among nurses: A cross‐sectional study

Zeng

Chen³

et al. 2022

J Nursing Management

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Aims This study aimed to investigate the status quo of nurses' spiritual care competency and their relationship with perceived professional benefit. Background Spiritual care has always been considered a vitally important part of holistic nursing. Understanding the spiritual care competency of nurses during the COVID‐19 pandemic can help nursing managers understand the weak links in spiritual care practice and improve the quality of nursing service. As a positive emotional experience and cognitive evaluation of the profession, perceived professional benefit can serve to adjust work pressure, relieve job burnout and promote an individual's overall growth. However, the relationship between perceived professional benefit among nurses and spiritual care competency remains unclear. Methods A total of 372 nurses were recruited from 15 separate Chinese hospitals. An online questionnaire was used to assess nurses' sociodemographic, spiritual care competency and perceived professional benefit. Statistical analyses were performed using Pearson's correlation analysis, t test, analysis of variance (ANOVA) and multiple stepwise linear regression analysis. Results The total mean score of spiritual care competency (99.43 ± 21.10) among nurses was found to be moderate. Nurses' spiritual care competency was positively correlated with perceived professional benefit (P < .01). The multiple stepwise linear regression model (n = 372) had an explained variance (R2 = 0.218) and showed that perceived professional benefit and the manner of receiving spiritual training were the main influencing factors of nurses' spiritual care competency (P < .001). Conclusion The study findings indicated that nurses need to improve their spiritual care competency by improving their perceived professional benefit. Implication for nursing managers Our study evaluated the spiritual care competency of nurses and explored the correlation between perceived professional benefit and spiritual care competency among nurses. The results of this study can help nursing managers to carry out relevant interventions, thus improving nurses' spiritual care competency and optimizing the quality of nursing.

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“…This also confirms that high positions and qualifications do not necessarily mean high abilities in spiritual care. Education received and clinical experience related to spiritual care may play a crucial role (Seid & Abdo, 2022).…”

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“…Nurses' SCC varies in accordance with a number of factors, such as age and training in spiritual care (Seid & Abdo, 2022;Vogel & Schep-Akkerman, 2018). The American Nursing Association and the International Nurses Association have emphasised the need to evaluate nurses' SCC (Musa, 2017).…”

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“…Nurses' SCC has a positive effect on patients, which can improve their psychological coping ability, satisfaction, internal spiritual strength and QoL (Berning et al., 2016; Weathers et al., 2016). Nurses' SCC varies in accordance with a number of factors, such as age and training in spiritual care (Seid & Abdo, 2022; Vogel & Schep‐Akkerman, 2018). The American Nursing Association and the International Nurses Association have emphasised the need to evaluate nurses' SCC (Musa, 2017).…”

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Competence and perceptions of spiritual care among clinical nurses: A multicentre cross‐sectional study

Guo,

Liu,

Zhang

et al. 2023

Journal of Clinical Nursing

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AimsTo identify latent profiles of competence and perceptions of spiritual care among clinical nurses and explore the possible influencing factors.BackgroundUnderstanding nurses' level of spiritual care competence and their perceptions and acceptance of such care is important, which could help devise nurse training programmes to address such competence in clinical nurses. However, research addressing interindividual variability in competence and perceptions among Chinese nurses is lacking.DesignMulticentre cross‐sectional study.MethodsNurses working in departments with critically ill patients from 12 community, 5 secondary and 10 tertiary hospitals in Shanghai completed a demographic information questionnaire and the Chinese versions of the Spiritual Care Competence Scale, Spiritual Care‐Giving Scale and Spiritual Perspectives Scale. The data were analysed using IBM SPSS v26.0 and Mplus version 8.3. Latent profile analysis identified subgroups with different levels of spiritual care competence.ResultsIn total, 1277 Chinese nurses were recruited. Four profiles of competence and perceptions of spiritual care were revealed: Low ability (23.8%), High ability (6.4%), High acceptance (34.9%) and Moderate (34.9%). The level of job position, spiritual care‐related education, hospital grade and nurses' perceptions and perspectives of spiritual care predicted the probability of profile memberships in their competence.ConclusionsThere was heterogeneity in the characteristics of spiritual care competence. Nursing managers can implement individualised interventions, including relevant training, according to the influencing factors of different competence profiles to improve the level of such competence among nurses.Relevance to Clinical PracticeThe results provide a new and expanded view of improving nurses' spiritual care competence. Interprofessional collaboration with clinicians, administrators, educators and spiritual leaders can contribute to the development of related education and training.Reporting MethodEQUATOR guidelines, STROBE checklist: cross‐sectional studies.Patient or Public ContributionAll participants were clinical nurses. Participants were informed they could withdraw from the study at any time.

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Nurse’s spiritual care competence in Ethiopia: A multicenter cross-sectional study

Cited by 6 publications

References 27 publications

Factors affecting spiritual care competency of mental health nurses: a questionnaire-based cross-sectional study

Factors affecting spiritual care competency of mental health nurses: a questionnaire-based cross-sectional study

Association between spiritual care competency and perceived professional benefit among nurses: A cross‐sectional study

Competence and perceptions of spiritual care among clinical nurses: A multicentre cross‐sectional study

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