Inforcing Spiritual Care: Enhancing Well-Being and Competency in Psychiatric Nurses

NCT06815419 | Not Yet Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: Du Rec no 46
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 98
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study was done to evaluate the effectiveness of spiritual care education program in enhancing the well-being and competency of psychiatric nurses.

Conditions

Well-being; Competence

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Spiritual Care Competence

  The scale was used to evaluate spiritual care competencies. The scale was created and validated in English by Van Leeuwen, Tiesinga, Middel, Post, and Jochemsen (2009). It consists of 27 items total, with six subscales. The scale assesses the following six spiritual-care competencies: communication (2 items), professionalization and improving the quality of care (6 items), personal support and counselling of patients (6 items), referral to other professionals (3 items), attitudes towards patients' spirituality (4 items), and assessment and implementation of SC (6 items). There are five points ratings on the Likert scale: strongly disagree, disagree, neutral, agree, and strongly agree. Higher scores indicate higher levels of competence; the total score goes from 27 to 135. The subscales demonstrated good homogeneity with average inter-item correlations \>0·25 and strong test-retest reliability. Cronbach's α values for the subdimensions of SC assessment and implementation, professiona

  8 weeks

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Spiritual Well-Being

  8 weeks

Study Arms (2)

Control

NO INTERVENTION

The control group will not receive the spiritual care education program

Intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

For eight weeks, the intervention group will participate in a spiritual care education program that aimed to improve their ability to provide spiritual care.

Other: spiritual care education program

Interventions

spiritual care education program OTHER

The spiritual care education program to improve nurses ability to provide spiritual care. Education includes; Program orientation, an introduction to spiritual care, the concepts of spiritual care, the significance of spiritual care, the theoretical underpinnings of spirituality in mental health, practical strategies for integrating spiritual care in psychiatric nursing, reflective practice, and self-care for enhancing personal spirituality were all covered in the program's weekly two-hour sessions.

Intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 20 Years - 60 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may not qualify if:

• Nurses refused to participate Nurses not on the full duty

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Port Said University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Faculty of Nursing

Port Said, Egypt

Location

Central Study Contacts

Huda Gaber Hamza, PhD

CONTACT

201282782275; huda.hamzaa@nur.psu.egu.eg

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Model Details: The intervention group was trained using a spiritual care education program meanwhile the control group did not receive any intervention.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: February 3, 2025
• First Posted: February 7, 2025
• Study Start: February 10, 2025
• Primary Completion: February 28, 2025
• Study Completion: March 1, 2025
• Last Updated: February 7, 2025

Record last verified: 2024-11

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

EG (1)