간호 대학생의 영적안녕과 우울에 관한 연구

A Survey on the Spiritual Wellbeing and Depression of Nursing Student

  Objectives: To develope spiritual nursing curriculum in the nursing college, nursing student"s spiritual wellbeing and depression level was evaluated. Methods: The study sample consisted of 72 nursing college students. The instruments were the spiritual wellbeing scale and depression scale. The spiritual wellbeing scale was the revised by Choi(1991) using Palautzian and Ellison(1982)"s. The Depression scale was revised by Song(1977) using Zung(1965)"s. The data was collected from March 2, 2005 to September 9, 2005. Data were analyzed by SPSS win 14.0 program. Findings: 1. The respondents" gender was 71(98.6%) female and 1(1.4%)male. Average age was 20.62. The respondents" religion was protestantism 37(52.1%) and buddhism 20(28.2%). Length of religions life was less than 1year 30(53.5%). Level of participation in religious life was moderate 39(57.3%) and sometimes participate10 (14.7 %) Effect of religious life on daily life was effect a little 29(42.6%) and moderate23(33.8%). 2. Level of total spiritual wellbeing was 59.69(6.37). Existential spiritual wellbeing was 31.18 (3.49)religious spiritual wellbeing was 28.51(4.67) and level of depression was 41.89(7.47). 3. The number of depression by severity was 50 (87.7%) on normal group, 5(8.8%) on mild depressive group and 2(3.5%) moderate depressive group. 4. There was a significant difference between those who have religion and have not on level of spiritual wellbeing(t=2.479, p=0.016). There was a significant difference between level of participation in religious life on level of spiritual wellbeing(F=10.590, p=0.000). There was a significant difference between effect of religious life on daily life on level of spiritual wellbeing (F=6.824, p=0.000). Conclusion: Nursing student" spiritual wellbeing and depression level was evaluated. This results will provide basic data to develope spiritual nursing curriculum in the nursing college. Nursing students who have religion, are actively participate in religious life and highly influenced by religious life on daily life showed higher level of spiritual wellbeing. To reinforce the nursing students" spiritual wellbeing this factors should be considered.