Determination of the Spiritual Support Perceptions of Students at a Vocational School of Health Services in Turkey

J Relig Health. 2023 Apr;62(2):1007-1018. doi: 10.1007/s10943-022-01627-0. Epub 2022 Aug 11.

Abstract

This descriptive and cross-sectional study aimed to determine the spiritual support perceptions of students (n = 606) at the Vocational School of Health Services at a university in Turkey in the academic year of 2019-2020. A Personal Information Form and the Spiritual Support Perception Scale were used to collect their data. The data evaluated descriptive analyses, the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, the Mann-Whitney U test and Kruskal-Wallis test. The mean age of the participants was 19.85 ± 1.78 years, 68.5% of them were female, 34.7% were students at the clinical laboratory techniques department, and 57.4% were first-year students. The mean Spiritual Support Perception Scale score of the participants was 50.08 ± 9.93, which was above average.

Keywords: Health services; Perception; Spiritual support; Vocational school.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Cross-Sectional Studies
  • Female
  • Health Services
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Spirituality*
  • Students, Nursing*
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Turkey
  • Young Adult