Cent Eur J Nurs Midw 2012, 3(3):433-441

Spirituality of patients with selected psychiatric disorders

Ivan Farský1,*, Andrej Smetánka2, Slávka Dubinská3
1 Department of Nursing, Jessenius Medical Faculty in Martin, Comenius University in Bratislava
2 Psychiatric Outpatient Unit Bojnice
3 2nd Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice and UN LP, Košice

Aim: In our work we focus on the assessment of selected attributes of spirituality, such as the meaningfulness of life, hope, spiritual expressions and spiritual well-being in patients with alcohol addiction, depressive disorder and schizophrenia.

Methods: The sample consisted of 309 patients with diagnosed and treated psychiatric disorder. The average age in the sample was 40.4 ± 12.5 years. There were 107 patients with alcohol dependence, 109 patients with depressive disorder and 93 patients with schizophrenia. For the data collection was used Snyder Hope Scale; Nowotny Hope Scale; Life Meaningfulness Scale; Prague Spirituality Questionnaire and Spiritual well-being Scale.

Results: We found significant differences in the extent of fulfilling spiritual variables depending on the psychiatric diagnosis. Patients with schizophrenia achieved significantly higher mean values than patients with alcohol dependence and depression in all spiritual variables. Patients with depression had the lowest level of hope measured by Nowotny Scale and the lowest rate of life meaningfulness. Patients with addiction had the lowest rate of hope measured by Snyder Scale and the least of spiritual expressions. Spiritual well-being was on the same level in patients with depression and alcohol addiction.

Conclusion: Based on our findings we can state that the spiritual variables as hope, meaningfulness, the expression of spirituality in everyday life, spiritual well-being are not in psychiatric patients filled up adequately. An important finding is also that in view of spirituality do not constitute psychiatric patients a homogeneous set, but there are significant differences between them.

Keywords: spirituality, depression, alcohol dependence, schizophrenia, psychiatric nursing

Published: September 30, 2012  Show citation

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Farský I, Smetánka A, Dubinská S. Spirituality of patients with selected psychiatric disorders. Ošetřovatelství a porodní asistence. 2012;3(3):433-441.
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