فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

INTRODUCTION: Spiritual health is considered one of the important dimensions of health and hasbeen given serious attention by the scientific community, World Health Organization, health discourse,and medical education. However, despite these considerations, there is a controversy in definingthe nature of this category and its dimensions and indicators. The purpose of this study is to identifythe indicators and dimensions of spiritual health for medical students.MATERIALS AND METHODS: This qualitative study with exploratory approach utilized conventionalcontent analysis and individual in‑depth interviews with experts in the area of spiritual health andspirituality in medical sciences selected through purposeful sampling. The study was conducted atAja University of Medical Sciences in Tehran in 2018. The semi‑structured interview was a tool usedto achieve data saturation, that interviewed with 19 experts. Member check, credibility, and reliabilitywere measured to increase the validity and reliability of the results. Inductive content analysis wasused for the analysis of data in three main phases: preparation, organization, and categories andcreating categories.RESULTS: Based on the findings of the interviews, 52 indicators were identified.Then, the indicatorsof spiritual health were identified in the following four categories) relationship with God, relationshipwith himself, relationship with others, relation with the environment (and these categories were dividedinthree dimentions (cognitive, attitudes and emotions, behavioral)CONCLUSION: The findings of the present study showed that in order to have spiritual health, it isimportant to pay attention to one’s relationship with God and one’s relationship with oneself, one’srelationship with others, and one’s relationship with the environment, and it is necessary to payattention to it in medical science curricula.