The relationship between religious attitudes and spiritual health with life satisfaction in nursing students of Kashan University of Medical Sciences Introduction

Introduction: Spirituality as a powerful force is at the center of human life, and is linked by having good feeling and life satisfaction. Spiritual health and religious attitudes makes life satisfaction especially in nursing students who are important in the care of patients. The purpose of this study was investigating of relationship between religion attitude and spiritual health with life satisfaction in nursing students at University of Kashan Medical Sciences.
Methods: This descriptive-analytic study on 176 nursing students of Kashan University of Medical Sciences was selected through stratified random sampling method from among 326 people was performed. To collect data, it was used standard questionnaire of religious attitudes, scale of Satisfaction of Life and Ellison spiritual health questionnaires. Questionnaires reliability estimated through Cronbach Alpha coefficient for religion attitude 0.83, life satisfaction 0.81 and spiritual health 0.86. The analysis of date was done in descriptive & inferential level with using SPSS 19 statistical software.
Results: The findings showed that the means of religious attitude (4.14±0.47) was higher than average, spiritual health (56.47±5.6) was in average level and life satisfaction (27.24±3.11) was higher than average. There are positive and no significant relationship between religion attitude and life satisfaction (r=0.08) and spiritual health and life satisfaction (r=0.04).
Conclusion: Religious attitude, spiritual health and life satisfaction in nursing students communicate with each other.