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RELIGIOSTY AND MENTAL HEALTH IN NURSING STUDENTS

Ružica Dilber ; Faculty of Health Studies, University of Mostar, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Dragan Babić ; Faculty of Health Studies, University of Mostar, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Department of Psychiatry, University Clinical Hospital Mostar, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ivan Vasilj ; Faculty of Health Studies, University of Mostar, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Marko Martinac ; Faculty of Health Studies, University of Mostar, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Primary Care Center Mostar, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Romana Babić ; Department of Psychiatry, University Clinical Hospital Mostar, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina; School of Medicine, University of Mostar, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Branka Aukst-Margetić orcid.org/0000-0002-7830-224X ; School of Medicine, University of Mostar, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia; School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Background: Young people and nursing students are prone to stress and psychological consequences of it. The aim of the
current study was to assess the associations between psychopathology and religiosity in the group of nursing university students.
Subjects and methods: The study included 100 nursing students of the Faculty of Health Studies in Mostar. The participants
were assessed with the SLC-90-R and Dimensions of Religiosity Questionnaire. Sociodemographic data were also collected.
Results: All SCL-90-R subscales negatively correlated with religiosity showing that the strength of religiosity was associated
with better mental health of nursing students. Twenty two percent of potential cases of mental disorder were detected based on the
GSI cut-off score. Religiosity was a significant predictor of mental disorder in logistic regression based on the GSI. The year of the
study and quality of family relations were associated with students’ religiosity. Gender, socioeconomic status and parents’ education
were associated with higher psychopathology scores.
Conclusion: Religiosity showed to be important factor of resilience for nursing students. Further studies are needed.

Keywords

nursing students; SCL-90-R; religiosity; mental health

Hrčak ID:

175482

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/175482

Publication date:

7.6.2016.

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