[Exploring Sleep Quality, Spiritual Health, and Related Factors in Nurses in the Intensive Care Unit].

BACKGROUND: Nurses in intensive care units (ICUs) care for critically ill and dying patients. The stressful nature of the work performed by these nurses may affect their spiritual health and sleep quality. PURPOSE: The purpose of this correlational study was to explore the sleep quality, spiritual health, and related factors in a sample of ICU nurses. METHODS: A cross-sectional correlational design with stratified random sampling was applied. A total of 170 clinical nurses were recruited from the ICUs of a medical center in northern Taiwan. A demographic characteristics questionnaire, the spiritual health scale-short form, and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) were used for data collection. RESULTS: The average PSQI score was 7.07, with 62.9% of the participants reporting poor sleep quality. A significantly negative correlation was identified between the spiritual-health-scale item "connections to others" and the PSQI. "Connections to others", "chronic diseases", and "menstrual cycle discomfort" were the important predictive factors of sleep quality in the ICU nurses in this study. 結果: 加護病房護理人員睡眠品質平均7.07分，睡眠品質不良者佔62.9%。靈性健康之次量表「與人締結」與睡眠品質總分呈顯著負相關，得分愈高者睡眠品質愈好。加護病房護理人員睡眠品質的預測因子為「與人締結」、「有慢性病」及「生理期不適」。. 結論／實務應用: 建議選擇溫和而不受時間、空間限制的運動，不僅可預防慢性疾病，還可減緩痛經問題；再者，將靈性健康相關教育訓練納入全人教育課程中，增強靈性狀態，進而改善睡眠品質。.