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Association Between Spiritual Well-Being and Resilience Among Turkish Hemodialysis Patients

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This study aimed to determine the association between spiritual well-being and resilience among Turkish hemodialysis patients. This cross-sectional study was conducted with 134 hemodialysis patients treated at two state hospitals’ hemodialysis units between February 2019 and July 2019. The data were collected with a Personal Information Form, the Spiritual Well-Being Scale and the Resilience Scale for Adults with the face-to-face interview technique. To analyze the data, descriptive statistics, t tests, ANOVA, Pearson’s correlation and multivariate linear regression analysis were used. The patients’ spiritual well-being levels were high, while their psychological resilience levels were medium. There was a moderate positive correlation between spiritual well-being and resilience (p < 0.01). Education level, economic level, duration of disease and spiritual well-being were determined to be statistically significant predictive factors of the patients’ resilience (p < 0.001). In this context, nurses may provide psychosocial and spiritual care, education and counseling services that will increase patient’s resilience.

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  1. Care of Elderly Program, Health Services Vocational College, Izmir Demokrasi University, Izmir, Turkey

    Songul Duran

  2. Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Bandirma Onyedi Eylul University, Balikesir, Turkey

    Dilek Avci

  3. Health Practice and Research Hospital, Balikesir University, Balikesir, Turkey

    Funda Esim

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Duran, S., Avci, D. & Esim, F. Association Between Spiritual Well-Being and Resilience Among Turkish Hemodialysis Patients. J Relig Health 59, 3097–3109 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-020-01000-z

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