TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Spiritual well-being and quality of life in patients with spinal cord injury: a study from Iran
JO  - Journal of spinal cord medicine
A1  - Hajiaghababaei, Marzieh
A1  - Saberi, Hooshang
A1  - Rahnama, Parvin
A1  - Montazeri, Ali
SP  - 653
EP  - 658
VL  - 41
IS  - 6
N2  - 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. <br><br>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. <br><br>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. <br><br>CONCLUSION: The findings suggest that having higher levels of spiritual well-being might improve quality of life in people with spinal cord injury.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1079-0268
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10790268.2018.1466479
ID  - ref1
ER  -