The role of spiritual intelligence in predicting the empathy levels of nurses with COVID-19 patients

The role of spiritual intelligence in predicting the empathy levels of nurses with COVID-19 patients

Given the prolongation of the newly emerging COVID-19 pandemic and the significance of caring for the patients by nursing staff, investigating and planning for the different psychological dimensions of this group is of paramount importance. Hence, this study investigated the role of spiritual intell...

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Published in:Archives of psychiatric nursing Vol. 35; no. 6; pp. 658 - 663
Main Authors: Aliabadi, Parastoo Karimi, Zazoly, Atefeh Zabihi, Sohrab, Mehrnoush, Neyestani, Farkhondeh, Nazari, Nahid, Mousavi, Seyed Hassan, Fallah, Abolghasem, Youneszadeh, Majid, Ghasemiyan, Masoumeh, Ferdowsi, Mohammad
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01-12-2021
Subjects:
Adult
COVID-19
Empathy
Humans
Intelligence
Nurse
Pandemics
SARS-CoV-2
Spiritual intelligence
Surveys and Questionnaires
COVID-19
Empathy
Spiritual intelligence
Nurse
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Summary:Given the prolongation of the newly emerging COVID-19 pandemic and the significance of caring for the patients by nursing staff, investigating and planning for the different psychological dimensions of this group is of paramount importance. Hence, this study investigated the role of spiritual intelligence in predicting nurses' empathizing with COVID-19 patients. This descriptive-correlation study was conducted in 2021 on nurses caring for COVID-19 patients in three public hospitals. The researchers used two standard questionnaires, including the Jefferson Scale of Empathy (JSE) and Spiritual Intelligence (SI), for data collection. The collected data were analyzed in SPSS16 using descriptive statistics and the following: The Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal–Wallis test, Regression, chi-square test, and Pearson and Spearman correlations. The statistical population consisted of 338 nurses with an average age of 34 and ten years of work experience. There was a significant positive relationship between the empathy scores and spiritual intelligence scores of the nurses caring for COVID-19 patients (P < 0.05). It was also concluded from the regression analysis that, spiritual intelligence affect empathy. Mean score of empathy was higher in hospitals where more nursing staff had MSc degrees. There was a significant difference between the empathy scores of the three hospitals (P < 0.05). The results indicated that there is a positive relationship between empathy and spiritual intelligence. Therefor improving spiritual intelligence is the appropriate strategy to ameliorate empathy during the COVID19 pandemic. At the same time, study indicated attention to the issue of nurses' mental health. Hence, it was suggested to incorporate these issues in the training programs and national/international decisions.
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ISSN:0883-9417
1532-8228
DOI:10.1016/j.apnu.2021.10.007