Spiritual well-being of nurses at the intensive care unit during the pandemic Bienestar espiritual de enfermeros de las unidades de cuidado intensivo en pandemia

Abstract

Objective: Determine the spiritual well-being and its relationship with demographic variables of nursing professionals who work at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Materials and methods: Quantitative, cross-sectional study that determined the levels of spiritual well-being through the Reed´s Spiritual Perspective Scale (SPS) in 116 nurses that worked in the ICU during the public health emergency of COVID-19, from June to July of 2020. The relationship of the variables was determined using the Fisher test, and the differences between the groups using the Mann-Whitney U test and the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) test. Significant statistical differences, with p<0,05, were considered. Results: The participants were predominantly female, under 45 years of age, single and with a bachelor´s degree as their maximum level of education. High levels of practice, belief and spiritual well-being were observed regardless the public health situation. Conclusion: The spiritual perspective behaves differently depending on the age, gender, civil status, academic background, and income. A high well-being in the nursing professional who works at the ICU during the COVID-19 pandemic, is a strength that could help maintain their mental health, improving their capacity to respond to scenarios of crisis.