Health, Spirituality and Medical Ethics

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Relationship between Spiritual Attitude and Protecting Patient Privacy in
Nursing Students in Khoy
Received 08 Feb 2020; Accepted 31 Oct 2020
http://dx.doi.org/10.29252/jhsme.7.4.33
Shahriar Sakhaei1 , Hossein Motaarefi1 , Esmayil Zeynali2 , Mostafa Momeni3 , Hassan
Ebrahimpour Sadagheyani4*
1 Department of Nursing, Khoy University of Medical Sciences, Khoy, Iran.
2 Department of Islamic Teachings, Khoy University of Medical Sciences, Khoy, Iran.
3 Department of Islamic Teachings, Neyshabur University of Medical Sciences, Neyshabur, Iran.
4 Department of Health Information Technology, Neyshabur University of Medical sciences, Neyshabur, Iran
Introduction
ne of the main aspects of a healthy life
is the fulfillment of spiritual needs that
results in the establishment of an
integrated personality (1, 2). Spirituality is
acknowledged as a fundamental element of
clinical care, and nursing students are greatly
interested in spiritual care to provide welfare
and mental need of patients (3, 4). Spirituality
is defined as having supreme human values,
such as faith in God, respecting others, piety,
service, optimism, and honesty (5, 6). Nurses
can be easily approved in the personal territory
of patients at the time of disease.Therefore,
they are held responsible for considering
spiritual issues, and there is a growing
tendency to value spirituality and spiritual
issues (7-9).
Spirituality is derived from the Latin word
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Please Cite This Article As: Sakhaei S, Motaarefi H, Zeynali E, Momeni M, Ebrahimpour Sadagheyani H.
Relationship between Spiritual Attitude and Protecting Patient Privacy in Nursing Students in Khoy. Health Spiritual
Med Ethics. 2020;7(4):33-40.
Abstract
Background and Objectives: Protection of patient privacy consider as one of the fundamental requirements in professional
morality, maintenance of individual dignity, and Patient-centered in the spiritual care system of nurses. This study aimed to explore
the relationship between spiritual attitude and Protection of patient privacy in students at Khoy university of medical sciences in
2018.
Methods: The present study was an analytical cross-sectional type in which 196 Khoy nursing students were selected. To collect
data, two questionnaires of spiritual attitude and patient privacy were applied. Data were analyzed by SPSS V22 software,
independent T-test, and Pearson correlation coefficient.
Results: The spiritual attitude of most students was positive with 81.6% and the tendency to the protection of patient privacy was
desirable with positive. Most agrees concerning privacy respectively related to protective measures and consideration of individual
hygiene in the prevention of nosocomial infections (72.4%), the requirement of screen application at the time of caring (65.3%),
and appropriate coverage of patient to prevent unnecessary exposure (62.2%). There was a positive and significant relationship
between the spiritual attitude and necessity of privacy protection (p=0.045, r=0.203).
Conclusion: All humans have a spiritual orientation potential that with the support of reasoning and learning is amendable.
Activities including respecting, privacy-protecting, and listening to patients were considered as spiritual care principles. It is
necessary, nursing faculty members strengthen the spiritual attitude and observance of these principles in nursing students by using
practical and role-playing teaching methods.
Keywords: Attitude, Nursing Students, Patient Data, Privacy, Spirituality.
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“spiritual” defined as a method of life with the
cognition of immaterial dimension and values
referring to others, itself, nature, and life (10).
It is one of the human dimensions that
generate the sense of being alive with such
qualities as nature, holy subjective experiences,
and finding meaning for existence (11, 12).
Abraham Maslow believed that ‘spirituality’ is
a general responsibility that is assigned to all
human beings. Furthermore, he thought that
spiritual experience leads us from conventional
wisdom to the realm of existence and provides
us with the meaningfulness of noble values,
such as truth, beauty, art, and love (13).
All human beings are endowed with potential
spiritual tendencies which are specific to each
person, highlighting human superiority over
other creatures, and the existence of spiritual
tendencies refers to reasoning potential in
human. Spiritual tendencies with reasoning
result in creating spiritual capabilities in
humans (14). The people with higher levels of
intellectual foundation in human attitudes are
more involved in process of spiritual growth.
Following the process of spiritual growth, as
well as having faith in God and his presence in
life, strongly affects personal attitude, selfrelationship, and relationship with others.
Moreover, it helps human beings find a
purpose in life; therefore, it is the best way to
obtain spiritual capability and healthy spiritual
attitudes (15, 16). Attitude consists of three
dimensions, namely cognitive, emotional, and
behavioral (17).
Spiritual care of patients is recognized as a
multi-dimensional concept, including issues
related to activities in such fields as respecting,
maintaining patient privacy, listening carefully,
and raising patients' awareness of the disease
process (8, 18). Based on related studies, hope
and spiritual health were meaningful aspects in
life that assisted individuals in adapting to
disease, reduced their mental tension, and
promoted their life quality and mental-social
health (11, 19). In this regard, a study showed
that nursing students had a high level of
spiritual health, and fourth-year students placed
more emphasis on supporting the patient's
spiritual beliefs, compared to other students
(20). In nursing, the spiritual dimensions of
individuals are placed in the framework of care,
and considering the variable of spirituality is
necessary for principled care and having a
comprehensive outlook. To provide spiritual
care, nurses should extend their knowledge and
understanding of spirituality and incorporate
spirituality in their nursing care (21). Privacy
protection is regarded as a fundamental need of
human beings, a critical concept in nursing, as
well as a necessary factor in creating patiencecenteredness, individualism, and ethical
healthcare (1, 22). The concept of personal
privacy is derived from the Latin word
‘Privatus’ defined as deprivation (23). Respect
for personal privacy dignifies patients and
instills trust so that a safe environment leads
patients to physical and mental health and
accelerates their treatment and discharge at
the earliest possible time (24). Considering
personal privacy puts emphasis on the
establishment of an effective relationship
between the medical team and the patient, as
well as the maintenance of patient peace and
satisfaction. Despite the critical importance of
this issue, when people are admitted to
hospitals, their privacy is usually violated
during hospitalization by the medical team due
to various reasons (25). In a study conducted by
Woogara, one-fourth of the admitted patients in
the hospital stated that their privacy was not
respected during the hospitalization period (26).
The concept of patient privacy involves
physical, physic, social, and informational
dimensions, and its physical dimension has
been already considered. In various examinations, cases, such as entering patients' rooms
without permission, exposure of body parts,
unawareness of disease, insufficient data about
the therapy process, and irresponsiveness have
been regarded as breaches of patient rights.
Nowadays, increased technology and application of patient data in performing research
have highlighted the necessity of respecting the
personal privacy protection. The breach of
patient privacy not only can impose irreparable
damage to the patients but also affects the
whole healthcare system (27). The violation of
patient privacy leads to serious consequences,
such as concealing disease background,
preventing physical test, increasing anxiety and
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stress, the arousal of aggression and violent
behavior, and lack of trust in the medical teampatient relationship (28), which in turn, causes a
reduction in care quality and dissatisfaction.
Protection of personal privacy which is a
fundamental value deeply rooted in the
traditions and history of the nursing profession
is regarded as the central conception of nursing
care. Moreover, previously conducted studies
indicated that the realization of patient privacy
protection is related to spiritual capability and
culture of nursing (29). In their study, Kuzu et
al. showed that patients' privacy was observed
in 86.1% of the cases (30). Protection of
patient privacy can be considered one of the
basic ethical requirements of maintaining
individual dignity and patient-centeredness in
the spiritual care system of nursing and during
hospitalization. Protection of patient privacy
can be accounted as one of basic moral
requirement, protection of individual dignity
and patient-centeredness in spiritual care
system of nursing and during hospitalization,
nursing students are accepted to facilitate
improvement to more extent in the personal
realm, but consideration of limitation will be
influential in making effective relations,
maintaining peace, improving care quality and
satisfying patients. There have been different
influential cultural, personal, and social factors
in considering patient privacy which needed
strengthening to modify attitude and notify
timely. Furthermore, spiritual attitude, as
personal, innate impressions, and holy mental
experience directs all life aspects of humans in
considering norms specifically respecting
personal privacy. Nursing care involves
spiritual nature intrinsically and it requires that
nursing students take into account a deep
understanding of spiritual beliefs and values to
provide the basic needs of patients concerning
realm limitation. Therefore, this study aimed to
determine the relationship between spiritual
attitude and tendency to the protection of
patient privacy from perspectives of Khoy
nursing students.
Methods
The present cross-sectional study was
conducted in 2018. The study population
included all students of Khoy university of
Medical Sciences (n=220), among whom 196
subjects completed the questionnaire. Data
collection tools included two questionnaires of
spiritual attitude and privacy protection. The
spiritual attitude questionnaire )43 items) was
designed on the 5-point Likert scale (‘I
strongly agree’ to ‘I strongly disagree’). The
scores were within the range of 43-215 rated
as negative=<100, indifferent=101157, and
positive=˃158. The reliability and validity of
the spiritual attitude questionnaire have been
confirmed with the Alpha coefficient of 91.0 in
the previous study conducted by library search
and referring to different sources (31).
The privacy protection questionnaire (31
items) was rated on a 5-point Likert scale
with the scores ranging from 31-155
(undesirable=˃100, rather undesirable=74-115,
and desirable=˃115). The content validity of
the questionnaire was approved by eight
faculty members of Khoy University of
Medical Science, and reliability of this scale
was obtained 0.79 at based on a primary study
on 20 students and calculating the Cronbach
alpha coefficient. Data were analyzed in SPSS
V22 using descriptive statistics (frequency,
percentage, mean and standard deviation) and
inferential statistics (independent T-Test and
Pearson correlation Coefficient) at a significant
level of 0.05.
The essential permissions were obtained from
the Research Council of Khoy University of
Medical Science. At the commencement of the
study, informed consent was obtained from all
subjects; moreover, they were provided with
the objectives of the research and were assured
of the confidentiality of their responses.
Result
Out of 196 participants, 116(59.2%) cases
were male, and 80(40.8%) subjects were
female. The majority of cases (75%) were third
semester students and city dwellers (88.3%)
with a mean age of 21.59±2.9 years and a
grade point average of 14.9±1.3 (Table 1).
The spiritual attitude of students was
positive (83.7%); moreover, the tendency to
respect patient privacy was desirable (83.7%)
(Table 2).
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Table 1. Participants' Demographic Characteristics

Based on the findings, the highly desirable
spiritual attitude of nursing students resulted in
more respect for the personal privacy of
patients, and there was a direct statistically
significant relationship between spiritual
attitudes and a tendency to observe patient
privacy (P=0.045, r=0.203). Furthermore, in
statistical analysis, a significant relationship
was detected between a tendency toward
privacy protection and gender (P=0.031), as
well as the spiritual attitude and tendency
toward privacy protection with the place of
residence (P=0.001). There were no significant
differences in other cases (Table 3).
The most frequently observed "strongly
Table 2. Absolute and relative frequency distribution of spiritual attitude and Patient Privacy

Table 3. Statistical Relations and Analytic Tests Between Variables

*Correlation is significant at the level of 0.05 (2-tailed).
agree" was related to protective measures and
consideration of individual hygiene in the
prevention of nosocomial infections (72.4%),
the screening requirement during care (65.3%),
and appropriate coverage of patient to prevent
unnecessary exposure (62.2%), respectively.
The least frequency referred to the possibility
of the presence of a family member (20.4%),
giving personal satisfaction for releasing
(26.5%), providing patients with information,
and participating in decision making (28.6%)
(Table 4).
Tabel 4. Absolute and relative distribution of the dimensions of the patient's privacy from the perspective of nursing students

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Discussion
As evidenced by the obtained results, the
majority of students (83.7%) had a positive
spiritual attitude which was indicative of the
critical importance nursing student attached to
spirituality as the fourth dimension of health.
Moreover, they had a great tendency to respect
the personal privacy of patients, and this
inclination was affected by family nature,
cultural factors, and training on basic lessons
of ethics, as well as nursing methods. In a
study carried out by Shahr Abadi et al., 56% of
nursing students and 51.8% of medical
students in the final term of Iran University of
Medical Science had a positive attitude toward
the spiritual care of patients (32). In line with
the results of the current research, in a study
conducted by Fatemi et al., nurses' attitudes
toward providing spiritual care in the selected
hospitals of Ardebil Medical University were
positive and high (33). The results of the
mentioned study demonstrated that most of the
nurses 83.7% respected patient privacy. Along
the same lines, Karimi et al. compared nurses'
understanding and hospitalized teenagers'
perceptions of the importance of patient
privacy. They reported that nurses valued
patient privacy more than hospitalized
teenagers (34).
In the same vein, in their study in turkey,
CKuzu et al. indicated that the right of
personal privacy of patients was observed in
68.1% of cases, and the most frequently
observed dimensions of privacy protection
were related to protective measures and
consideration of individual hygiene (72.4%),
screening requirements of care (65.3%), and
appropriate coverage of patient to prevent
unnecessary exposure (62.2%) (30). In partial
agreement with the present study, in another
study conducted by Aghajani et al., the
fulfillment of patient needs and a neat
environment in some dimensions were highly
critical from teenagers' perspective (1).
Previous studies in the field of respecting
personal privacy reported the most frequently
observed cases of patient privacy breaches,
such as sitting on the patient bed without
permission, exposure of some body parts,
excessive noise, lack of control over personal
space boundaries, irresponsiveness to patient
questions, and unawareness of disease (25, 26,
35). In a study performed by Lin et al. in
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Taiwan, patient privacy breach occurred due to
high working volume, lack of employed
persons, congested areas, and inappropriate
physical space (22).
Aghajani and Dehghanniri indicated that
unnecessary touching in half of the patients
and sitting on the patient bed without
permission occurred in 13% of cases. There
were significant differences in the relationship
between gender and privacy protection, as well
as the association of respecting patient privacy
with the place of residence and spiritual
attitude. In the mentioned study, no significant
relationship was observed between gender and
respecting patient privacy; nonetheless, there
was a significant relationship between age and
privacy protection (1). These findings were
incongruent with our results and showed that
attitudes of nursing students in Khoy
significantly differed according to the place of
residence and gender in terms of respecting
patient privacy and attitude toward spiritual
issues. Based on the correlation between
spiritual attitude and personal privacy
protection, a positive spiritual attitude was
highly influential on respecting patient privacy.
Based on the results of the study and the
correlation between spiritual attitude and
patient privacy, raising nursing students'
spiritual awareness can exert positive effects
on clinical care and quality of treatment, which
in turn, leads to increased patient satisfaction
and professional competence in nurses.
Conclusion
All humans have a spiritual orientation
potential that with the support of reasoning and
learning is amendable. In spiritual care,
activities such as respecting, protecting patient
privacy, listening carefully to patients, and
helping to disease process are fundamental
concepts. According to the results of the study
and the direct correlation between spiritual
attitude and respect for patients 'privacy, a
positive attitude in nursing students improve
spiritual capability in terms of respect to the
patient realm and privacy protection. Since
spiritual attitude and a tendency toward patient
privacy protection are factors that require
studies in various fields and each kind of
activity for need assessment, notices, and
interventions can assist students to present
spiritual care relied on respecting humanity
and morally right. It is necessary, nursing
faculty members strengthen the spiritual
attitude in nursing students by using practical
and role-playing teaching methods.
Conflict of interest
The authors declare that they have no conflict
of interests.
Acknowledgements
The Student Research Committee of Khoy
University of Medical Sciences approved this
study with code 99000040. The authors wish
to thank Khoy University of Medical Sciences
for their support to do and complete this
research. Also, we appreciate all students who
helped us with this research.
Funding
This research received no financial help from
any funding agency.
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معنوی و لزوم حفظ حریم، همبستگی مستقیم و معناداری وجود داشت (.)P=1/146 ،r=1/211
نتیجهگیری: همه انسانها دارای ظرفیت معنوی بالقوهای هستند. با پشتوانه تعقل و یادگیری، نگرش معنوی قابل تقویت میباشد. از آنجایی که در امر
مراقبت، فعالیتهایی نظیر احترام گذاشتن، حفظ حریم، گوش دادن به بیمار و کمک به آگاهی از روند بیماری از اصول اساسی محسوب میشوند، لازم است
اعضای هیأت علمی پرستاری با استفاده از روشهای عملی و نقشآفرینی، نگرش معنوی و رعایت این اصول را در دانشجویان پرستاری تقویت کنند.
واژگان کلیدی: حریم خصوصی، دادههای بیمار، دانشجویان پرستاری، معنویت، نگرش.