Spiritual Well-Being among Medical and Nonmedical Science Students

• Published in: Scientifica (Cairo) Vol. 2021; pp. 6614961 - 6
• Main Authors: Maazallahi, Mahboobeh, Ghonchepour, Asma, Sohrabi, Mostafa, Golestani, Zakiyeh, Parandeh Afshar, Peiman, Malakoutikhah, Alireza, Dehghan, Mahlagha
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Egypt Hindawi 2021; Hindawi Limited
• ISSN: 2090-908X; 2090-908X
• DOI: 10.1155/2021/6614961

Spiritual well-being is one dimension of health that provides a person with stability, meaning, fulfillment in life, and self-belief. This study aimed to compare the spiritual well-being among students of Kerman University of Medical Sciences and the Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman. With the demographic questionnaire and 20-item spiritual well-being scale of the “Paloutzian and Ellison” questionnaire, a cross-sectional study was conducted on 626 students of the universities of medical and nonmedical sciences by the quota sampling method in Kerman in 2017-2018. The scores of spiritual well-being and its two components were significantly higher in nonmedical science students (89.83 ± 16.79) than in the medical science students (81.61 ± 15.21) (p<0.05). In addition, one percent of the nonmedical science students had a low level, 67.7% had a moderate level, and 31.3% had a high level of spiritual well-being. 0.3% of the medical science students had a low level, 84% had a moderate level, and 15.7% had a high level of spiritual well-being. Since spirituality is important for the profession of medical science students, it may be necessary to expand this component in their curriculum.