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Anxiety and Spiritual Well-Being in Nursing Students: A Cross-Sectional Study

2016; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 35; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/0898010116655004

1552-5724

Jéssika Leão Fabbris, Ana Cláudia Mesquita Garcia, Sílvia Caldeira, Ana Maria Pimenta Carvalho, Emı́lia Campos de Carvalho,

Workplace Spirituality and Leadership

To analyze the relation between anxiety and spiritual well-being in undergraduate nursing students.Cross sectional, correlational, and survey design.A total of 169 students from a Brazilian Nursing School completed three instruments: demographic data, Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWBS), and Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI).The mean score of SWBS was high, and the mean score of BAI was low. When experiencing anxiety, there was lower probability of experiencing high spiritual well-being. For those students considering religiosity very important, the score of SWBS was high. Students scoring lower in SWBS had more probability of experiencing moderate/high anxiety.Higher scores of SWBS and importance given to religiosity were related to lower scores of BAI. Also, the performance and score of spiritual well-being were related to anxiety scores. Further research is worthy to identify and validate which educational aspects could promote spiritual well-being and reduce anxiety as well as research to analyze the relation between spiritual well-being score and learning outcomes.