Relationships Among Spiritual Well-being, Adjustment, and Quality of Life in Patients With a Stoma: A Cross-sectional, Descriptive Study

Autor: Dilek Özden, Cahide Ayik, Deniz Cenan
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Popis: Individual spiritual preferences and adjustment to a stoma may affect quality of life. PURPOSE: This study aimed to investigate the relationship among and the factors that influence spiritual well-being, adjustment to a stoma, and quality of life in patients with astoma. METHODS: A cross-sectional, descriptive study was conducted over 6 months among outpatients with a stoma recruited from general surgery and enterostomal therapy clinics of a university hospital in Turkey. Turkish-speaking patients who were at least 18 years of age and had a colostomy or ileostomy for at least 2 months were eligible to participate. Participants independently(or with researcher help if necessary) completed the Sociodemographic Characteristics Form; the 12-item Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Spiritual Well-Being Scale (FACIT-Sp) that utilized 5-point, Likert-style responses to items regarding meaning, peace, and faith (score range 0-48; higher scores indicate more spiritual well-being); the 23-item Ostomy Adjustment Scale that utilized 5-point, Likert-style responses to items regarding acceptance worry, social adjustment, and anger (score range 0-92; higher scores indicate better adjustment); and the 21-item Stoma Quality of Life Scale that used a combination of scoring methods (score range 0-100; higher scores imply better quality of life) and Likert-style questions. Data were transferred without patient names from the questionnaires directly into a software program for analysis. Descriptive statistics, correlation, and hierarchical regression analyses were applied. RESULTS: Of the 95 participants (52 [54.7%] men; mean participant age 56.54 +/- 13.74 years), mean scores were 31.66 +/- 7.39 for spiritual well-being, 51.73 +/- 12.28 for adjustment to a stoma, and 55.27 +/- 16.45 for quality of life. A statistically significant difference was found between the mean spiritual well-being and quality-of-life (r = 0.525, P
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