Correlation between spiritual health and empathy among undergraduate nursing students
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1672-7088.2019.22.013
- VernacularTitle: 本科护生灵性健康与共情能力的相关性研究
- Author:
Yingying YUAN
1
;
Huaxia LIU
;
Lan DENG
;
Ya′nan HAO
;
Hua LIN
Author Information
1. School of Nursing, Shandong First Medical University&Shandong Academy of Medical Science, Taian 271016, China
- Publication Type:Clinical Trail
- Keywords:
Nursing students;
Spirituality;
Spiritual health;
Empathy;
Interpersonal reactivity index
- From:
Chinese Journal of Practical Nursing
2019;35(22):1746-1750
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective:To investigate the present situation of spiritual health and empathy of undergraduate nursing students, and explore the correlation between them.
Methods:Convenient sampling was used and 498 senior nursing students were recruited from 2 universities in Shandong Province. They were investigated using the general questionnaire, the Spiritual Health Scale Short Form and Chinese version of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index.
Results:The total score of spiritual health was (92.87±12.28), the 5 dimensions of the item score from high to low were connection to others (4.46±0.62), meaning derived from living (4.15±0.69), self-understanding (4.03±0.72), transcendence (3.95±0.74) and religious attachment (2.60±1.08). The total score of Interpersonal Reactivity Index was (57.50±8.35), the 5 dimensions of the item score from high to low were perspective taking (2.78±0.61), empathy concern (2.72±0.56), fantasy (2.61±0.57), personal distress (2.32±0.78). Nursing students’ spiritual health score and empathy was positively correlated (r=0.334, P<0.01). Regression analysis, single-child (B=0.202, P<0.05), exercise habit (B=0.363, P<0.01), religious belief (B=0.381, P<0.01), academic performance (B=0.205, P<0.05), nursing career in the future (B=0.285, P<0.01) were the influencing factors of nursing students′ spiritual health.
Conclusions:Spiritual health is closely related to empathy; the higher the level of spiritual health, the higher the empathy ability. It suggests that nursing educators can improve nursing students′ empathy by improving the spiritual health of nursing students.
