Spiritual Needs and Influencing Factors of Indonesian Muslims With Cancer During Hospitalization

Abstract

Introduction: Although Muslims constitute nearly one fourth of the global population, many non-Muslims are not familiar with Islam. To address this unique need from such a specific cultural context, the present study aimed to examine the spiritual needs and influencing factors of Indonesian Muslims with cancer. Method: A cross-sectional research design with 122 cancer patients was conducted by using the Bahasa-version Spiritual Needs Questionnaire. Results: The degree of spiritual needs was generally high. Religious needs were the strongest aspect, and “praying five times a day” was the highest scoring item. Gender ( p = .04), age ( p = .01), and duration of being diagnosed with cancer ( p = .01) were associated with spiritual needs. Female gender ( p = .005) and older age ( p < .001) were predictors of spiritual needs. Discussion: As expected to provide cultural-congruent spiritual interventions, nurses could meet Muslim patients’ need to pray five times a day during hospitalization, thus help them manage and endure the illness.

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“…So far, the following language versions are published: German (Büssing et al,), Polish (Büssing et al, 2015), Danish (Stripp et al, submitted), Lithuanian (Riklikienė et al, 2019), Croatian (Glavas et al, 2017), Greece (Fradelos et al, 2020) (Himawan et al, 2019;Nuraeni et al, 2015;Sastra et al, 2021), Iran/Farsi (Hatamipour et al, 2018;Moeini et al, 2018), Pakistanian (Kashif & Kanwal, 2018). Other translations are in use but not yet published (i.e., Italian, French, Spanish, Japanese and Korean).…”