Bulduk Serap, Usta Esra, Dinçer Yeliz
Düzce University, Sağlık Hizmetleri Meslek Yüksekokulu Konuralp Yerleşkesi, 81620, Düzce, Türkiye.
Sakarya University, Sağlık Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Hemşirelik Doktora Programı, Esentepe Kampüsü, 54187, Sakarya, Türkiye.
J Relig Health. 2017 Jun;56(3):852-860. doi: 10.1007/s10943-016-0248-1.
Spiritual care means helping an individual protect, maintain and gain all the dimensions of his/her existence. Elderly care technicians face numerous cases or crisis situations in which elderly individuals from different backgrounds question the meaning and value of life. Elderly care technicians must acknowledge that the spirituality is an important element in the way an elderly individual receives healthcare and they must be equipped for this matter. This study was conducted in order to examine the influence of "Skill Development Training Program for Spiritual Care of Elderly Individual," which was carried out with students from elderly care program, on the perception of spirituality support in a pretest-posttest quasi-experimental study design with control group. As the data collection form, "Spiritual Support Perception" (SSP) scale was used. The mean scores of the intervention group after the training and after one month are 50.39 ± 5.34 and 51.13 ± 4.98, respectively, and those of the control group are 43.16 ± 4.83 and 42.72 ± 4.48. A statistically significant difference was found between the mean scores of the intervention group from the pretest and the posttests immediately after the training and one month after the training (f = 94.247, p = 0.001). In the control group, however, there was no significant change in the SSP mean scores (f = 0.269, p = 0.77). As a result, this study pointed out the necessity of such training programs for healthcare professionals to make a distinction between their professional duties and their own personalities in order to offer spiritual care to the elderly individual.
精神关怀意味着帮助个人保护、维持并获得其生存的各个层面。老年护理技术人员面临着众多案例或危机情况，不同背景的老年人会在这些情况中质疑生命的意义和价值。老年护理技术人员必须认识到，精神性是老年人接受医疗保健方式中的一个重要因素，并且他们必须为此做好准备。本研究采用前测-后测准实验研究设计并设置对照组，旨在检验针对老年护理专业学生开展的“老年个体精神关怀技能发展培训项目”对精神性支持认知的影响。作为数据收集形式，使用了“精神支持认知”（SSP）量表。培训后及培训后一个月，干预组的平均得分分别为50.39±5.34和51.13±4.98，对照组的平均得分分别为43.16±4.83和42.72±4.48。干预组前测得分与培训刚结束后及培训后一个月的后测得分之间存在统计学显著差异（F=94.247，P=0.001）。然而，对照组的SSP平均得分没有显著变化（F=0.269，P=0.77）。因此，本研究指出了此类培训项目对于医疗保健专业人员的必要性，以便他们在履行专业职责时区分自身个性，从而为老年个体提供精神关怀。
