Citation

Hajiaghababaei M, Saberi H, Rahnama P, Montazeri A. J. Spinal Cord Med. 2018; 41(6): 653-658.

Affiliation

Population Health Research Group, Health Metrics Research Center , Iranian Institute for Health Sciences Research, ACECR , Tehran , Iran.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals, Publisher Maney Publishing)

DOI

10.1080/10790268.2018.1466479

PMID

29733268

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To assess the relationship between spiritual well-being and health-related quality of life (QOL) among patients with spinal cord injury (SCI). SETTING: Brain and SCI Research Center, Neuroscience Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study. A sample of patients with SCI participated in the study and completed two questionnaires: the Short-Form 36-Item Health Survey (SF-36) in order to collect data on vitality, social functioning, mental health and role emotional and the Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWBS) to measure religious and existential well-being. The association between spiritual well-being and health-related QOL was then assessed.

RESULTS: In all 213 patients were studied. The mean age of patients was 43.5 (SD = 10.8) years, and most were male (77.5%). The results obtained from generalized linear regression analysis indicated that religious well-being and existential well-being were significant contributing factors to improved vitality, social functioning, mental health and role emotional.

CONCLUSION: The findings suggest that having higher levels of spiritual well-being might improve quality of life in people with spinal cord injury.

Language: en

Keywords

Quality of life; Spinal cord injury; Spirituality; Well-being