ArticleIranian journal of nursing and midwifery research
Barriers to Providing Spiritual Care from a Nurses' Perspective: A Content Analysis Study.
Article in Iranian journal of nursing and midwifery research. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
20 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Effects of Spiritual Care with and Without Aromatherapy on the Sleep Quality of Prisoners Referred to the Emergency Department of the Prison Clinic in Iran: A Randomized Clinical Trial.Journal of religion and health · 2026Trial
- "Touching Beyond the Body": A Qualitative Study of Spiritual Care Experiences among Hemodialysis Nurses in Türkiye.Journal of religion and health · 2026Article
- Spiritual Care in Surgical Nursing Practice in Türkiye: A Qualitative Study of Nurses' Experiences and Barriers.Journal of religion and health · 2026Article
- Barriers of spiritual care in nursing: a scoping review.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Professional Competence and Spiritual Care Provision Among Zambian Maternal Healthcare Providers: Through the Lens of Watson's Theory of Human Caring.Journal of holistic nursing : official journal of the American Holistic Nurses' Association · 2026Article
- Association between spiritual care competence and professional attitude among community nurses in China: insights from a cross-sectional study.BMC nursing · 2026Article
- Challenges of providing spiritual care to patients in Iranian teaching hospitals: a qualitative study.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Negotiating faith in a hospital bed: A qualitative exploration of barriers to prayer (Belitung nursing journal · 2026Article
- Professional self-efficacy and identity as predictors of spiritual care competence in nursing and midwifery students.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Spiritual Care Practices and Competence Among Critical Care Nurses in Türkiye: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach.Journal of religion and health · 2025Article
- Spiritual Care Competence in Palliative Care: A Concept Analysis.Journal of religion and health · 2025Article
- Exploring the relationship between spiritual health and professionalism in Iranian operating room interns.Discover mental health · 2025Article
- Evaluation of nurses' perception of spirituality and spiritual care of parents in neonatal intensive care units in Iran: a national study.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Overview of spiritual care instruments and its domains: a scoping review.BMC palliative care · 2025Article
- Assessment of psychometric properties of the Persian version of the spiritual care competency self-assessment tool.Palliative & supportive care · 2025Article
- Future directions of spiritual care where spiritual care providers do not exist: a qualitative study.BMC palliative care · 2025Article
- Intersections of Compassion, Science, and Spiritual Care in Global Health for Public Health Benefits.Journal of religion and health · 2024Article
- Spiritual Care[Givers] Competence in Palliative Care: A Scoping Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Spiritual Care through the Lens of Portuguese Palliative Care Professionals: A Qualitative Thematic Analysis.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Perceived Barriers to Providing Spiritual Care in Palliative Care among Professionals: A Portuguese Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Background: Spirituality is an important dimension of holistic nursing, and spiritual care is essential to ensure the achievement of optimal care in nursing profession. The aim of this study was to explain the obstacles to providing spiritual care from the perspective of nurses. Materials and Methods: The present qualitative study was conducted between November 2020 and June 2021 with a content analysis approach. Participants included 30 nurses, selected through purposive sampling, working in the general wards and intensive care units of Isfahan University hospitals. Data collection method was semi-structured personal interviews. After recording and transcription word by word, all data were analyzed through qualitative content analysis. MAXQDA 11 was used for data analysis. Results: Research findings included 323 primary codes and two main categories "individual barriers and organizational barriers" and eight subcategories "non-compliance with human resources standards, lack of attention of organizational managers to the importance of holistic care, motivational barriers, training barriers, barriers to interprofessional collaboration, environmental barriers, barriers related to the nurses, and communication barriers." Conclusions: Using the results of the study, policymakers and nursing managers will be able to help facilitate spiritual care, and ultimately, improve the quality of nursing care by improving the infrastructure and removing existing barriers.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.