EXPLORING THE SPIRITUAL WELL-BEING OF LADY HEALTH VISITORS AND NURSING STUDENTS: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY.

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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND: The spiritual well-being of nursing students should be high since they will be
the future of the profession, replace the seasoned nurses, learn how to handle these situations,
and develop their problem-solving and open-mindedness. Objective: The aim of the study was to
determine the spiritual well-being of nursing students and lady health visitors.
METHODOLOGY: This study used a cross-sectional descriptive research design and was
conducted over a period of four months, from October 10, 2022, to January 15, 2022, in Khyber
Pukhtankhwa nursing institutions that run both LHV and 4-year BSN programs. The study
sample size was 416 using a purposive sampling technique. A valid and reliable Gomez and
Fisher spiritual well-being questionnaire was used for data collection. Descriptive statistics and
independent t-tests were used as inferential statistics in SPSS 23.0. RESULTS: The total number
of study participants was 416, with a higher number of male students (54.8%) than female
students (45.2%). The mean age of was 21.6 ± 5.9. Students in the BSN program were higher in
number (75.5%) compared to LHV students (24.5%). The overall spiritual well-being of the
students was moderate (3.8 ± 0.51, while the lady health visitors 3.85 ± 0.47 was higher than the
BSN students 3.79 ± 0.52, and the mean scores of female participants were high in the personal,
communal, categories compared to male participants. Furthermore, there was no difference in the
mean score of BSN and LHV students except in the environmental category. CONCLUSION:
The study concludes that the overall spiritual well-being of the students was moderate. The study
concluded that there was no difference in the mean score of personal, communal, and
transcendent spirituality, while there was only a difference in the mean score of environmental
spirituality. Furthermore, spiritual well-being could be part of nursing education