간호사의 영적건강, 정신건강, 죽음인식이 삶의 질에 미치는 영향

Abstract

Medical teams are always close to death so that it can not but be a more important issue and especially nurses who frequently meet with death should care of death bed patients and their families with a deep understanding and positive attitudes of death. Accordingly, this study intended to examine nurses' spiritual health, mental health and perception of death often encountering to death and how nurses' spiritual health, mental health and perception of death will have an influence on their quality of life. Subjects of this study were 155 nurses who had experienced clinically more than 1 year in 4 hospital complexes situated in Gyeonggi province and the questionnaires were collected after obtaining consent through explanation of the purport of the study. The questionnaires consisted of 10 questions on general qualities, 20 questions on spiritual health scale, 19 questions on mental health scale, 40 questions on perception of death scale and 26 questions on quality of life and collected data was analysed with SPSS WIN 12.0 statistical software program. The result of this study was on the average, 3.43 in spiritual health, 3.66 in mental health and 3.27 in perception of death on a 5-point scale. It indicated that quality of life of subjects in the study had a significant correlation with spiritual health, mental health and perception of death and meaningful factors which affect on quality of life were proven to be spiritual health and mental health and as a result, the higher subjects have spiritual health and mental health, the higher quality of life subjects have. Therefore, the higher nurses have spiritual health, the more positive attitudes nurses have on mental health and perception of death, quality of life was also shown to be higher by the study. Spiritual health and perception of death are closely connected with a religion and nurses are required to enhance spiritual health and have affirmative attitudes in that religious persons turned out to have higher spiritual health and positive attitudes over unreligious persons. By raising spiritual health and mental health, nurses attend on the sick and should have desired effects on patients accepting naturally and positively toward death.