SPIRITUAL WELL-BEING AND ANXIETY IN DIABETIC PATIENTS

Abstract

The present study investigated the correlation between the levels of spiritual well-being and the levels of anxiety-been, in a sample of 190 patients obtained by means of nonprobabilístic sampling, the inclusion criteria were: adults of 35 to 85 years of age, diagnosed with diabetes mellitus type 2, excluded the patients with dementia. The theoretical frame that guided the study is the Model of Adaptation of Roy.

The design was descriptive, cross-sectional, correlational. The population sample was distributed normally with a power of the 80. It was used the questionnaire of espirituality of Reed and the scale of anxiety-been of Spielberger; the instruments displayed a favorable internal consistency with a Alpha de Cronbach of 894 and 877 respectively. The information was successfully obtained of four institutions of health, one of first level and three of the second level of attention.

The analysis of the data was carried out through statistical package SPSS version 13th. The average age of the participants was of 57,36 years with a standard deviation of 11,4; 55% were female gender, the 83,2% professes the catholic religion, the 51,5% presents some type of complication associated to diabetes.

The coefficient of correlation between the spiritual well-being and anxiety-been was significant. These results support the hypothesis of the study that refers to greater spirituality smaller level of anxiety-been; situation that it invites to deepen as much in the study of these phenomena in the educative area as welfare in the nursing discipline.