Volume 6, Issue 1, 2023-2024, Pages 55 - 77

Author(s) : Fatemeh Zare Hossein Abadi* ¹ , Mina Zare Hossein Abadi ² , Mohammad Mojtaba Abadi ³

Abstract :
Introduction: Access to health is a need and basic human rights and spiritual health is an important aspect of health. Loneliness is an unpleasant emotional experience that causes of emptiness, sadness and without belonging to the individual and effects of social, physical and psychological health. With regard to the specific circumstances of the students, being far from family, concerns about future education and employment and the social structure of their environment and being at risk of loneliness and considering position of spirituality in the lives of youth and that research has not been done in this field, we decided to examine the spiritual health and its relationship with loneliness too. Methods: This descriptive correlational study was conducted with cross-sectional method. The participants were 525 students from various faculties in medical university students. Data were collected by a questionnaire consisting of three parts: demographic data, UCLA loneliness and spiritual health questionnaire Palutzian and Ellison. Data were analyzed using SPSS software. Results: In 524 students participating in the study, the average age of 21.06 ± 2.60 years, 25.2% were male and 74.8% female, 24.8% were married and 75/2% single, 19.1% of participants student of faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Health 36.3%, 23.5% paramedical and 21.1% Medical School, 72.9% of students living in dorm, 23.9% with family and 3.2% in individual home, 75.6% of undergraduate, 8.2% postgraduate and 15.1% professional doctorate degree and 1.1% in PhD are educating. 0.8 %, 63% and 36.2% of those were respectively with low, moderate and high spiritual health. A total mean score of spiritual well-being of individuals were 91.48 ± 17.60. Students that were female, married, dormitories and students in graduate and faculty of health earn the highest scores were spiritual health. The mean score of spiritual health have correlation of statistically significant with location, the Faculty and the gender. The results showed that the majority (60.9%) had experienced a moderate level of loneliness and although males and single, with individual home, students in the faculty of nursing-midwifery and undergraduate students have earned the highest scores loneliness but statistically significant difference was don’t observed between the average score of loneliness in various groups. Finally, the results showed a significant negative correlation between spiritual health and loneliness. Conclusion: Considering the significant relationship loneliness and spiritual health and loneliness seems prelude to depression, attention to spiritual health is strategy in the prevention of mental health problems that should be of interest to cultural authorities. Key words: loneliness, spiritual health, students

Keywords :
loneliness, spiritual health, students