During the COVID-19 pandemic, the impact of religious caring behavior increases the immunity of medical-surgical nurses

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Introduction: Caring is a fundamental service basis in nursing because it is the main behavior of nurses in carrying out nursing care. Islamic caring could stabilize the psychological condition of nurses and patients. Psychologically stable nurses and patients could increase immunity in giving care nursing during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to analyze the impact of Islamic caring behavior on nurses, particularly in terms of enhancing their psychospiritual comfort, preparedness, and immunity. This research’s findings open avenues for further exploration into the potential of Islamic caring to improve nurses’ psychospiritual comfort and immunity. M ethods: This is pre-experimental research with a pre-post-test design. The population is all medical-surgical nurses at Muhammadiyah Gresik Hospital. A sample of 16 nurses was recruited using a purposive sampling technique. Religious Islamic caring, comfortable psychospiritual, preparedness, and immunity were variables. The instrument was an inspection of complete blood count and modified questionnaire from previous study. Data analysis was carried out with the Wilcoxon test at a significance level of p ≤ 0.05. Results: All respondents had complete COVID-19 vaccination status and 81.3 % were female. In nurses, religious caring increased com fortable psychospiritual, preparedness, and erythrocytes (p = 0.043, p = 0.043 and p = 0.015). Hemoglobin, hematocrit, platelets, and leukocytes were not significantly influenced by religious caring (p = 0.145, p = 0.641, p = 0.287, and p = 0.103). Conclusion: Religious caring is influential in the comfortable psychospiritual and preparedness of medical-surgical nurses. Religious Islamic caring enhances immunity, as seen by enhancing erythrocytes.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)s171-s178
JournalGaceta Medica de Caracas
Volume132
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2024

Keywords

  • COVID-19
  • immunity
  • islamic caring behavior
  • nurse medical-surgical

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