Jaberi Azita, Momennasab Marzieh, Yektatalab Shahrzad, Ebadi Abbas, Cheraghi Mohammad Ali
Student Research Committee, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Department of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Zand Street, Namazee Sq., Shiraz, 71936-13119, Iran.
J Relig Health. 2019 Oct;58(5):1537-1560. doi: 10.1007/s10943-017-0379-z.
Spiritual health has attracted a lot of attention in health-related and nursing sciences and numerous researches. Yet, this concept has remained complex and ambiguous, and there is no consensus in this regard. This ambiguity can be challenging for holistic nursing; therefore, clarification of the concept is required for development of nursing knowledge. The present study aimed to explore the concept of spiritual health in health-related and nursing literature. Walker and Avant (Strategies for theory construction in nursing, Appleton & Lange, Norwalk, 1995) concept analysis method was used in this study. The results were categorized as antecedents, attributes, and outcomes of spiritual health. The critical attributes extracted for spiritual health included transcendence, purposefulness and meaningfulness, faithfulness, harmonious interconnectedness, integrative power, multidimensionality, and holistic being. Besides, the antecedents of spiritual health included capability and potentiality for transcendence, and spiritual awareness. Finally, well-being and moral development were the outcomes of spiritual health. Spiritual health is one of the basic aspects of health and providing a clear theoretical definition can result in a common understanding of this concept for nurses. Clarifying this concept would also be useful for provision of spiritual care interventions and development of nursing theories.
精神健康在健康相关学科和护理科学以及众多研究中已引起了广泛关注。然而,这一概念仍然复杂且模糊,在这方面尚未达成共识。这种模糊性对整体护理而言可能具有挑战性;因此,为了护理知识的发展,需要对该概念进行澄清。本研究旨在探讨健康相关学科和护理文献中精神健康的概念。本研究采用了沃克和阿万特(《护理理论构建策略》,阿普尔顿与朗格出版社,诺沃克,1995年)的概念分析方法。研究结果被归类为精神健康的前因、属性和结果。提取出的精神健康的关键属性包括超越性、目的性和意义性、忠诚性、和谐的相互联系、整合力、多维性和整体性。此外,精神健康的前因包括超越的能力和潜力以及精神意识。最后,幸福感和道德发展是精神健康的结果。精神健康是健康的基本方面之一,提供清晰的理论定义可使护士对这一概念达成共识。澄清这一概念对于提供精神护理干预措施和护理理论的发展也将是有益的。