Korean J Hosp Palliat Care.
2012 Jun;15(2):88-98.
Spirituality and State Hope of Medical Social Workers
- Affiliations
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- 1School of Social Welfare, Gwangju University, Gwangju, Korea. sokck@gwangju.ac.kr
Abstract
- PURPOSE
This study was designed to assess the relationship between spirituality and state hope of medical social workers in Korea and their correlation was studied to provide data in developing effective spiritual and hope intervention for medial social workers.
METHODS
The study surveyed 102 medical social workers in Korea from September 1, 2011 to September 30, 2011. The study employed the Korean version of the State Hope Scale (SHS) and Spirituality Scales (SS). For data analysis, descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation and simple regression were performed using the SPSS WIN ver. 17.0.
RESULTS
Spirituality scores showed a significant difference according to religion. The mean score of spirituality was 3.80/5.00 and the mean score of state hope was 6.36/8.00. Spirituality scoresand state hope scoresshowed a significant positive association (P<0.001).
CONCLUSION
This study showed a significant positive association between medical social workers'spirituality and their state hope of. Future studies would be needed to further explorespirituality and state hope.
