Spiritual well‐being of patients with chronic renal failure: A cross‐sectional study

• Published in: Nursing open Vol. 8; no. 5; pp. 2461 - 2469
• Main Authors: LI, Chia‐Yu, Hsieh, Chia‐Jung, Shih, Ya‐Ling, Lin, Ya‐Ting
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.09.2021; John Wiley and Sons Inc; Wiley
• Subjects: Aged; Chronic illnesses; chronic renal failure; Cross-Sectional Studies; Data collection; depression; Geriatrics; Humans; Kidney diseases; Kidney Failure, Chronic - therapy; Likert scale; Mental depression; Nephrology; nursing; Peritoneal dialysis; physical symptom distress; Pruritus; Quality of Life; Questionnaires; Religion; Renal Dialysis; Sleep; sleep quality; Software; spiritual well‐being; Spirituality; Validity; Values; Well being; United States > US; Taiwan; nursing; depression; physical symptom distress; spiritual well-being; chronic renal failure; sleep quality
• ISSN: 2054-1058; 2054-1058
• DOI: 10.1002/nop2.1004

Aims The study aimed to investigate the relationship among physical symptom distress, sleep quality, depression and spiritual well‐being of patients with chronic renal failure (CRF) and analyse the predictors of the spiritual well‐being. Design A cross‐sectional study. Methods A total of 188 patients were selected. The collection tools were the Physical Symptom Distress Scale, the Chinese version of PSQI, the Geriatric Depression Scale and the Spiritual Well‐Being Scale. Hierarchical regression analysis was conducted using SPSS 20.0. Results Patients with different treatments exhibited significantly different physical symptom distress. Furthermore, spiritual well‐being was significantly negatively correlated with physical symptom distress, poor sleep disturbances and depression. After controlling for the variables, sleep quality and haemodialysis treatment were the key predictors of spiritual well‐being. Conclusion To achieve holistic caregiving for patients’ physiological, psychological and spiritual health, Nurses should evaluate patients’ symptom distress and depression when providing care for these patients to enhance their spiritual well‐being.