Spiritual well-being and hospital accreditation

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Objective To survey spiritual well-being of Srithanya Hospital’s staff during intensive hospital accreditation (HA) preparation for the hospital re-accreditation on May 29, 2009.

Materials and methods   Purposive sampling was applied during 14-20 May 2009. There were a head, a subhead and sub-ordinate staff from all clinical and back office units. They completed the questionnaires consisting personal data which included HA participation, regularity of dharma practice and 3 mental health status questionnaires; namely, Srithanya stress questionnaire (ST-5), Mental Health Indicator (15 items) and Spiritual well-being questionnaire.  Mean scores of 3 questionnaires were compared by ANOVA. Multiple logistic regression applied for regular dharma practice, stress, mental health status and HA participation.

Results There were 198 copies from 214 distributions. Staff had normal mental health status at 82.6% and rated them at high HA articipation was 37.6% and regular daily dharma practice at 10.7%.  From ST-5, 70.7% of staff did not have stress. Staff having high HA participation and regular dharma practice had significant higher mean scores of Mental Health Indicator and Spiritual wellbeing than others and they also had less mean score of stress. Staff who regularly dharma practiced had 2.8 times significantly participated in HA than those who did not whereas mental health status scores did not have an effect on HA participation significantly.

Conclusion Most staff had normal mental health status and did not have stress problem during intensive HA preparation. Staff who regularly dharma practiced and highly HA participated had better mean scores of mental health status and stress than other staff. Dharma practice should be promoted in order to enhance mental quality and capacity.