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Clinical, Social and Demographics Factors Associated with Spiritual Wellbeing in End Stage Renal Disease

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Spiritual health is one of the important aspects of health status that is often neglected. Aim: the present study aims to evaluate spiritual wellbeing in end stage renal disease patients undergoing hemodialysis and its relation to sociodemographic and clinical variables. Methods: A convenience sample of 183 individuals undergoing hemodialysis was recruited. Measurements were conducted with the following instruments: (a) a sheet containing demographic data and clinical information such as duration of dialysis e.t.c (b) Facit Spiritual Wellbeing Scale (Facit-Sp12). Statistical analysis was contacted with SPSS v.22. Descriptive statistics were initially generated for sample characteristics. Parametric and no-parametric statistics were used for searching the relations between the variables. P values <0.05 were defined as reflecting the acceptable level of statistical significance. Results: From the total of the 183 participants of the study the 69.9% were male and 30.1% female. The age range was from 26 to 88 years old, with mean 61.39 ± 14.11. The subscale “peace” is associated to gender (t = 2.150, p = 0.033), educational level (F = 2.698, p = 0.047) and duration of dialysis (F = 2.969, p = 0.033) and religious beliefs (t = −2.059, p = 0.041). The subscale “faith” is associated to gender (t = −3.428, p = 0.001), age (p = 0.006), number of children (F = 4.347, p = 0.014). Moreover, the subscale “meaning” is associated to age (p = 0.001). Finally its worth to be mentioned that comorbidity is associated to subscales “meaning” (t = −2.071, p = 0.040), “peace” (t = −2.377, p = 0.018) and the overall spiritual wellbeing (t = −1.988, p = 0.048). Conclusions: Social, demographic factors as well as clinical variables such duration of dialysis and comorbidities are affecting spiritual wellbeing in end stage renal disease.

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Authors would like to thanks all patients that participated in the study.

Conflict of Interest All authors declare that there is no financial or personal conflict of interest related to this paper.

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  1. Department of Nursing, Faculty of Human Movement and Quality of Life Sciences, University of Peloponnese, Sparta, Greece

    Evangelos C. Fradelos, Foteini Tzavella & Victoria Alikari

  2. Department of Nursing, Technological Educational Institute of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

    Konstantinos Tsaras & Ioanna V. Papathanasiou

  3. Department of Nursing, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Evmorfia Koukia

  4. Faculty of Human Movement and Quality of Life Sciences, Department of Nursing, University of Peloponnese, Tripoli, Greece

    John Stathoulis

  5. Department of Nursing, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Areti Tsaloglidou

  6. General Hospital, Asklipieion Voula, Athens, Greece

    Michael Kourakos

  7. Faculty of Human Movement and Quality of Life Sciences, Department of Nursing, Efstathiou & Stamatikis Valioti and Plateon, University of Peloponnese, Sparti, 23100, Greece

    Sofia Zyga

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Fradelos, E.C. et al. (2017). Clinical, Social and Demographics Factors Associated with Spiritual Wellbeing in End Stage Renal Disease. In: Vlamos, P. (eds) GeNeDis 2016. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 987. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57379-3_8

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