Perception of spirituality, spiritual care, and barriers to the provision of spiritual care among undergraduate nurses in the University of Lagos, Nigeria

Folami, Florence F.; Onanuga, Khadijah Adenike

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“…When categorized almost half of the nurses had good spiritual care practices. This average figure is not in agreement with findings from some other studies ( Folami & Onanuga, 2018 ; Gallison et al 2013 ) and the response of the patients. The average practice observed in this study is possibly due to curriculum change in most schools as advocated and intervened in the outcome of a previous study ( Afolayan & Frantz, 2019 ).…”

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Assessment of Spiritual Care Practices Among Nurses Caring for Cancer Patients in a Tertiary Hospital in Nigeria

2023

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Introduction The importance of spirituality in health and wellness has been documented in the literature. While the developed countries have reported robust evidence of spirituality in nursing practices, there is scant evidence in low- and middle-income countries like Nigeria. Objectives This study assessed the spiritual care practices of the nurses attending to cancer patients in a tertiary health institution in Ilorin. It further determined factors associated with spiritual caring practices among nurses. Methods A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted between November 2021 and December 2021 to assess spiritual care practices among nurses caring for cancer patients. During the study period, 66 nurses were recruited randomly from the hospital's medical and surgical clinics, palliative care department, and Obstetrics and Gynecology department. Twelve items validated Nurses’ spiritual care practices questionnaire was adapted for this study. Data were analyzed using IBM SPSS version 23. Results The mean age of the respondents was 36.5 years ( + 10.1) while female respondents made up 83.3%. About 48% of the nurses had good spiritual caring practices while 52% had poor spiritual caring practices. Nurses with training in oncology (96%) with p = .001 and those with spirituality training (86.2%) with p = .017 showed significant association with spiritual care practices. This study concluded that spiritual care practices among nurses are sub-optimal with training as a significantly associated factor with spiritual care practices. Conclusion It is, therefore, suggested that spiritual care practices should be incorporated into all nursing training and curriculum. This will allow them to better support the spiritual needs of the patients, especially those with chronic diseases like cancer.

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Assessment of Spiritual Care Practices Among Nurses Caring for Cancer Patients in a Tertiary Hospital in Nigeria

2023

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“…This study has implications for clinical nursing. First, given the evidence for the advantages of recognizing nurses’ perspectives of spirituality and spiritual care, in recent years, studies assessing this subject have increased [18, 34–36]. Although some of them show that spiritual care can improve patients’ and all people’s health outcomes, the topic is not given adequate attention in nursing practice.…”

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Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the spiritual care-giving scale (C-SCGS) in nursing practice

Tiew

Fan

2019

BMC Med Res Methodol

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BackgroundSpiritual care is defined as recognizing and responding to the needs of the human spirit when the individual is facing trauma, illness, or sadness. Providing spiritual care is one of the core aspects of holistic care, as it is significantly associated with patients’ quality of life. The provision of optimal spiritual care requires good understanding by the nurses. Therefore, it is important to assess this understanding by using a proven, well-validated instrument. The Spiritual Care-Giving Scale (SCGS) is designed to measure nurses’ perceptions of spirituality and spiritual care in Singapore. However, it is unknown whether this scale is valid and reliable for use with nurses in the context of Chinese culture. The purpose of this study is to determine this version’s validity and reliability for use with nurses in China.MethodsIn this quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional study, after translating the English version of the SCGS into Chinese and making adjustments for culture and values, we assessed the performance of this instrument by administering the C-SCGS to a convenience sample of 400 nurses. The participants also completed the Chinese version of the Spiritual Care Competency Scale (C-SCCS) to assess the concurrent validity of the C-SCGS. The internal consistency and homogeneity of the C-SCGS were also tested, and a factorial analysis was performed.ResultsCompleted questionnaires were obtained from 355 participants (response rate: 88.75%). Four factors were confirmed by an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) using Promax with the Kaiser normalization rotation method after the 35-item SCGS was reduced to 34 items, and these factors explained 53.116% of the total variance. The adjusted item–total correlation ranged from 0.527 to 0.760. The Cronbach’s alpha of the factors ranged from 0.836 to 0.941, and the Guttman split-half coefficient was between 0.759 and 0.902. The concurrent validity of the C-SCGS and C-SCCS (r = 0.534, p < 0.01) showed a significant correlation. Nurses’ education showed a significant association with the scores of the C-SCGS.ConclusionThe C-SCGS was found to be a psychometrically sound measurement to evaluate Chinese-speaking nurses’ perceptions of spirituality and spiritual care.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1186/s12874-019-0662-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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“…Considering that scores close to 5 on this scale indicate higher levels of perception of the concepts of spirituality and spiritual care, it can be said that nursing students' perceptions of the concepts of spirituality and spiritual care are at a high level. Some studies have found that the students have low perceptions of spirituality and spiritual care (Folami and Onanuga, 2018;Mankan et al, 2014). Some studies have determined high (Akın and Yılmaz, 2020;Köktürk Dalcali and Erden Melikoğlu, 2021;Pour et al, 2017).…”

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The Relationship between the Perceptions of Nursing Students on Spirituality and Spiritual Care and Their Professional Values in the Process of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Bekar

Arıkan

2021

Turkish Journal of Science and Health

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This study was conducted for the purpose of investigating the correlation between the perceptions of nursing students on spirituality and spiritual care and their professional values in the process of the COVID-19 pandemic. Material and Methods:The study was carried out with nursing students at the School of Health at a state university in the Mediterranean Region of Turkey between 1 and 14 July 2020. The sample consisted of 279 students. The question forms for the data were prepared on Google Forms, and the data were collected by connection addresses sent to the students. In data collection, a "Personal Information Form", the "Spirituality and Spiritual Care Rating Scale (SSCRS)" and the "Nurses Professional Values Scale-Revised (NPVS-R)" were used. Results: The students' mean total score in the "NPVS-R" was 102.22±24.34, while their mean total score in the "SSCRS" was 3.79±0.61. There was a significant, positive and weak correlation between the total score and subscale scores of the "NPVS-R" and the score of the "SSCRS". Conclusion:This study concluded that the perceptions of the nursing students regarding spirituality and spiritual care and their professional values in the COVID-19 pandemic process were on a good level, and as their professional values increased, their spirituality and spiritual care perceptions increased.

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Perception of spirituality, spiritual care, and barriers to the provision of spiritual care among undergraduate nurses in the University of Lagos, Nigeria

Cited by 13 publications

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Assessment of Spiritual Care Practices Among Nurses Caring for Cancer Patients in a Tertiary Hospital in Nigeria

Assessment of Spiritual Care Practices Among Nurses Caring for Cancer Patients in a Tertiary Hospital in Nigeria

Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the spiritual care-giving scale (C-SCGS) in nursing practice

The Relationship between the Perceptions of Nursing Students on Spirituality and Spiritual Care and Their Professional Values in the Process of the COVID-19 Pandemic

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