The relationship between spiritual health and anxiety in nursing student in training at the time of entry into the school

The spiritual health is the only forced goal that affects on physical, psychological and social dimensions of human wellbeing. Creating and maintaining spiritual well-being plays an important role in reducing the anxiety of students. Therefore, this study was aimed to determine the relationship between spiritual health and anxiety of nursing students at the beginning of the hospital training.
The present study is a descriptive- correlational study that was conducted in the cross sectional form. In this study, 189 nursing students were selected by simple random method. Data gathering was done using Paloutzian-Ellison spiritual health questionnaire and Beck anxiety questionnaire. Data analysis was done using descriptive statistics and Pearson correlation, multiple regression, and Z Fisher tests and SPSS software version 18.
Most of the students had high spiritual health (69.3 percent). The majority of students (41.8 percent) had mild anxiety. There was negative and significant relationship between the spiritual health of students with anxiety at the beginning of training (r=-0.255, p The findings showed an increase in spiritual health, especially the religious health, can reduce the anxiety of students at the beginning of hospital training. Policy makers and executives of educational programs in nursing and midwifery should provide appropriate content and learning environment and use effective teaching strategies to promote the spiritual health of students during the educational course.