Open AccessThe Death awareness and Spiritual Experience of Health Care Workers during COVID-19 Outbreak
Author(s) -
Ali Nobahari,
Elham Fathi,
Fateme Malekshahi Beiranvand,
Abolfazl Hatami Varzaneh
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of community health research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2345-2609
pISSN - 2322-5688
DOI - 10.18502/jchr.v11i1.9093
Subject(s) - existentialism , front line , covid-19 , health care , psychology , outbreak , spiritual care , content analysis , spiritual health , coronavirus , nursing , medicine , spirituality , clinical psychology , sociology , alternative medicine , political science , disease , virology , social science , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law
Introduction: The present study aims to identify the death awareness and spiritual experience of the health care workers in Iran.
Methods: Eleven health care workers involved with Coronavirus patients were selected through purposeful sampling and had in-depth semi-structured interviews. Conventional content analysis was utilized to analyze the data.
Results: The conventional content analysis revealed four themes: 1- Increasing death awareness 2- Effective spiritual strategies; 3- Effective spiritual beliefs; 4- Pleasant and unpleasant existential experiences.
Conclusion: We can conclude that health care workers in dealing with epidemics such as coronavirus as a front-line force need spiritual heath to help themselves and the patients.