Research on the status and influencing factors of spiritual needs of gastrointestinal cancer patients / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To explore the status and influencing factors of spiritual needs of patients with gastrointestinal cancer, so as to help the medical staffs to provide spiritual care for patients with gastrointestinal cancer. Methods The general information questionnaire, disease information questionnaire and the Spiritual Needs Assessment for Patients(SNAP) were used to investigate the spiritual needs of 116 patients with gastrointestinal cancer, analyze the influencing factors of the spiritual needs. Results The spiritual needs score of the patients with gastrointestinal cancer were 32-92(69.7 ± 16.9) points. Regression analysis showed that the influencing factors were religious belief, age of illness and number of children (R2=0.480, F=12.353, P<0.01). Conclusions The level of spiritual needs of the gastrointestinal cancer patients is at middle level.With different religious beliefs, age of illness and children number, the level of spiritual needs is different.