• Spiritual health center with hope for life in the elderly referring to Shiraz medical hospitals
  • Afshin Mohebi zarin dare,1,* amirmohammad azizi,2 Fazel Sajedi,3 Zeinab Sadat Moosavi Fard,4
    1. BSc in Nursing, Department of Nursing, Bandar Abbas Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bandar Abbas, Iran.
    2. Department of Nursing, faculty of nursing, Bandar Abbas Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bandar Abbas, Iran.
    3. BSc in Nursing, Department of Nursing, Bandar Abbas Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bandar Abbas, Iran.
    4. Department of Nursing, faculty of nursing, Bandar Abbas Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bandar Abbas, Iran.


  • Introduction: Aging is a gradual decay in the structure and organism of the body that occurs due to the intervention of the time factor. Spiritual health is one of the important aspects of human health, which provides a harmonious and integrated connection between internal forces. Hope is also a positive motivational state that is based on a sense of belonging and direction. Therefore, we decided to conduct a study with the aim of determining the relationship between spiritual health and life expectancy in elderly people referred to Shirazan Psychiatric Hospital.
  • Methods: This research is a descriptive-analytical study that was carried out cross-sectionally in 1400. The studied population consisted of 70 elderly people referred to Shiraz Psychiatric Hospital; who were included in the study in an easy and accessible way. Data were collected through demographic information, standard questionnaire of spiritual health and life expectancy. The SWBS spiritual health questionnaire contains 20 questions, including 10 questions in the field of existential health and 10 questions in the field of religious health, as well as the MHS life expectancy questionnaire, which contains 48 questions. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics of mean, standard deviation and range of changes and inferential tests, onova, t test, Pearson's correlation coefficient in spss version 21 software.
  • Results: The participants in this study were 40 women (70%) and 30 men (30%). The average age of the elderly participants in this study 17.04 is ±1.67. The mean scores of spiritual health and life expectancy in the elderly under study are 71.4 ± 16.58 and 54.2 ± 63.93, respectively. There is a direct relationship between spiritual health and life expectancy, P > 0.05.
  • Conclusion: The results showed that the elderly have average spiritual health and average life expectancy. Also, there is a direct relationship between the spiritual health of the elderly and their life expectancy, and in other words, the elderly who have high spiritual health have a high life expectancy compared to others. Organization of workshops and meetings aimed at increasing the spiritual health of the elderly can have a great impact on the life expectancy of this group.
  • Keywords: Spiritual health, hope for life, elderly