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| Published: September 25, 2016
Spiritual Well-Being among Diabetic Patients
Guest Teacher, Department of Psychology, AMU, Aligarh, India Google Scholar More about the auther
Research Scholar, Department of Psychology, AMU, Aligarh, India Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.141/20160304
DOI: 10.25215/0304.141
ABSTRACT
Maintaining overall health and well-being in illness can be achieved through various combinations of physical, mental, social, environmental and spiritual well-being. In recent era spirituality has emerged as a central focus of in the field of health sciences. Researchers and clinicians now believe in the important connection of spirituality, health and wellness of an individual’s life. Patients living with chronic disease such as diabetes mellitus have life management challenges and difficulties that come with the disease process. The present study examined the spiritual well-being among diabetic patients. Spiritual Well-being Scale (SWBS) was administered to a sample of 50 Muslim diabetic patients (male = 23, and female = 27). Obtained data was analyzed by t-test. Results showed that there was no significant difference between male and female diabetic patients on both subscales of spiritual well being i.e., the Religious Well-being Scale (t = .451, p > .05) and Existential Well-being Scale (t = 1.11, p > .05). This finding suggests that spiritual well- being among Muslim diabetic patients may create great encouraging results. Health documents describing the self- management procedures highlight spirituality as one of the important holistic styles that address the needs of whole person rather than isolated parts.
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This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2016, S Baby, O Khan
Received: July 06, 2016; Revision Received: August 05, 2016; Accepted: September 25, 2016
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.141/20160304
10.25215/0304.141
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Published in Volume 03, Issue 4, July-September, 2016