ArticleBMC nursing2024
The impact of religious spiritual care training on the spiritual health and care burden of elderly family caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic: a field trial study.
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- Role Overload and Health Among Family Caregivers of Older Persons in the United States: Does Religious Attendance Matter?Journal of religion and health · 2026Article
- Caring for the caregivers: a scoping review of spiritual and religious interventions for family caregivers in home care.BMC nursing · 2026Article
- Efficacy of structured spiritual care education program on nurses' spiritual well-being and clinical competence: a randomized controlled trial.BMC nursing · 2026Article
- Exploring spiritual health among South Korean older adults using the ICECAP-O measure: a cross-sectional study.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2026Article
- Caregiver burden, compassion and spiritual well-being among family caregivers of bedridden patients in Türkiye: a nursing study.BMC nursing · 2026Article
- Examining the link between nurses' spiritual health and patients' satisfaction with nursing services in clinical units: a cross-sectional study in southwest Iran.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Caregiver burden reduction program among family caregivers of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery: designing and evaluating.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Exploring the relationship between spiritual health and professionalism in Iranian operating room interns.Discover mental health · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundFamily caregiving is associated with many physical and psychological problems for caregivers, but the effect of spiritual support on reducing their issues during a crisis is also the subject of research. The study aims to examine the impact of religious spiritual care training on the spiritual health and care burdens of elderly family caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
methodsThe randomized controlled field trial involved 80 Iranian family caregivers in Bushehr City, who were selected by convenience sampling based on the inclusion criteria and divided into experimental (40 people) and control (40 people) groups by simple random sampling in 2021 and 2022. Data collection was conducted using spiritual health and care burden questionnaires using the Porsline software. The virtual intervention included spiritual and religious education. Four virtual sessions were held offline over two weeks. The first session was to get to know the participants and explain the purpose, The second session focused on the burden of care, the third on empowerment, and the fourth on mental health and related issues. In the control group, daily life continued as usual during the study.
resultsMean changes in existential health (3.40 ± 6.25) and total spiritual health (5.05 ± 11.12) increased in the intervention group and decreased in the control group. There were statistically significant differences between the two groups for existential health (t = 3.78, p = 0.001) and spiritual health (t = 3.13, p = 0.002). Cohen's d-effect sizes for spiritual health and caregiving burden were 0.415 and 0.366, respectively. There was no statistically significant difference in mean changes in religious health (p = 0.067) or caregiving burden (p = 0.638) between the two intervention and control groups.
conclusionGiven that the religious-spiritual intervention had a positive effect on existential health and no impact on religious health or care burden, it is recommended that comprehensive planning be undertaken to improve the spiritual health of family caregivers to enable them to better cope with critical situations such as a COVID-19 pandemic.
trial registrationIRCT code number IRCT20150529022466N16 and trial ID number 48,021. (Registration Date2020/06/28).
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