title: The Influence of Skill Development Training Program for Spiritual Care of Elderly Individual on Elderly Care Technician Students' Perception of Spiritual Support.
abstract: Spiritual care means helping an individual protect, maintain and gain all the dimensions of his/her existence. Elderly care technicians face numerous cases or crisis situations in which elderly individuals from different backgrounds question the meaning and value of life. Elderly care technicians must acknowledge that the spirituality is an important element in the way an elderly individual receives healthcare and they must be equipped for this matter. This study was conducted in order to examine the influence of "Skill Development Training Program for Spiritual Care of Elderly Individual," which was carried out with students from elderly care program, on the perception of spirituality support in a pretest-posttest quasi-experimental study design with control group. As the data collection form, "Spiritual Support Perception" (SSP) scale was used. The mean scores of the intervention group after the training and after one month are 50.39 ± 5.34 and 51.13 ± 4.98, respectively, and those of the control group are 43.16 ± 4.83 and 42.72 ± 4.48. A statistically significant difference was found between the mean scores of the intervention group from the pretest and the posttests immediately after the training and one month after the training (f = 94.247, p = 0.001). In the control group, however, there was no significant change in the SSP mean scores (f = 0.269, p = 0.77). As a result, this study pointed out the necessity of such training programs for healthcare professionals to make a distinction between their professional duties and their own personalities in order to offer spiritual care to the elderly individual.
authors.affiliation: Düzce University, Sağlık Hizmetleri Meslek Yüksekokulu Konuralp Yerleşkesi, 81620, Düzce, Türkiye. serapbulduk@duzce.edu.tr.
authors.forename: Serap
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bulduk
authors.affiliation: Düzce University, Sağlık Hizmetleri Meslek Yüksekokulu Konuralp Yerleşkesi, 81620, Düzce, Türkiye.|Sakarya University, Sağlık Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Hemşirelik Doktora Programı, Esentepe Kampüsü, 54187, Sakarya, Türkiye.
authors.forename: Esra
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Usta
authors.affiliation: Düzce University, Sağlık Hizmetleri Meslek Yüksekokulu Konuralp Yerleşkesi, 81620, Düzce, Türkiye.|İstanbul Üniversity, Sağlık Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Kadın Sağlığı ve Hastalıkları Hemşireliği Doktora Programı, Cerrahpaşa Tıp Fakültesi Kampüsü, İstanbul, Türkiye.
authors.forename: Yeliz
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Dinçer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003479:Curriculum; D005260:Female; D005851:Geriatric Nursing / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D029181:Spirituality; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Elderly care technicians; Spiritual care; Spiritual care support perception