The Relationship between Spiritual Intelligence and Fatigue and Moral Distress in Emergency Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study

Background: Emergency nurses face various challenging conditions and many moral distress that may associated with fatigue from providing care. The spiritual intelligence of nurses has been found to have an impact on the quality of care. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between the sp...

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Main Authors: Seyed Hossein Shahcheragh, Nazanin Fekri, Mostafa Rad
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Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2024-11-01
Series:Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research
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Online Access:https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/ijnmr.ijnmr_157_23
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description Background: Emergency nurses face various challenging conditions and many moral distress that may associated with fatigue from providing care. The spiritual intelligence of nurses has been found to have an impact on the quality of care. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between the spiritual intelligence of emergency nurses with fatigue from providing care and moral distress in emergency nurses. Materials and Methods: This descriptive-analytical cross-sectional study was conducted on 200 nurses working in the emergency departments of hospitals in Semnan and Sabzevar, who were selected by stratified random method. They were asked to complete the spiritual intelligence, nurse fatigue scale, and moral distress questionnaire through self-reporting. The data were analyzed using SPSS 26 and Amos software, path analysis, and correlation tests. Results: An increase in spiritual intelligence leads to a significant reduction in moral distress (p = 0.01) and fatigue from caregiving (p = 0.001). In contrast, an increase in moral distress leads to a considerable increase in fatigue from caregiving (p = 0.001). Conclusions: The results showed that spiritual intelligence has an inverse relationship with moral distress and fatigue from providing care. Moral distress has a direct relationship with fatigue from providing care. Therefore, interventions in the field of increasing spiritual intelligence and reducing moral distress and fatigue from providing care are recommended.
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spelling doaj-art-d9862bd6beda421bb149cc705cff63fc2025-08-20T02:20:51ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsIranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research1735-90662228-55042024-11-0129673774210.4103/ijnmr.ijnmr_157_23The Relationship between Spiritual Intelligence and Fatigue and Moral Distress in Emergency Nurses: A Cross-Sectional StudySeyed Hossein ShahcheraghNazanin FekriMostafa RadBackground: Emergency nurses face various challenging conditions and many moral distress that may associated with fatigue from providing care. The spiritual intelligence of nurses has been found to have an impact on the quality of care. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between the spiritual intelligence of emergency nurses with fatigue from providing care and moral distress in emergency nurses. Materials and Methods: This descriptive-analytical cross-sectional study was conducted on 200 nurses working in the emergency departments of hospitals in Semnan and Sabzevar, who were selected by stratified random method. They were asked to complete the spiritual intelligence, nurse fatigue scale, and moral distress questionnaire through self-reporting. The data were analyzed using SPSS 26 and Amos software, path analysis, and correlation tests. Results: An increase in spiritual intelligence leads to a significant reduction in moral distress (p = 0.01) and fatigue from caregiving (p = 0.001). In contrast, an increase in moral distress leads to a considerable increase in fatigue from caregiving (p = 0.001). Conclusions: The results showed that spiritual intelligence has an inverse relationship with moral distress and fatigue from providing care. Moral distress has a direct relationship with fatigue from providing care. Therefore, interventions in the field of increasing spiritual intelligence and reducing moral distress and fatigue from providing care are recommended.https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/ijnmr.ijnmr_157_23burn outfatiguemoral distressnursepath analysisspiritual intelligence
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title The Relationship between Spiritual Intelligence and Fatigue and Moral Distress in Emergency Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_full The Relationship between Spiritual Intelligence and Fatigue and Moral Distress in Emergency Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_fullStr The Relationship between Spiritual Intelligence and Fatigue and Moral Distress in Emergency Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_full_unstemmed The Relationship between Spiritual Intelligence and Fatigue and Moral Distress in Emergency Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_short The Relationship between Spiritual Intelligence and Fatigue and Moral Distress in Emergency Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_sort relationship between spiritual intelligence and fatigue and moral distress in emergency nurses a cross sectional study
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moral distress
nurse
path analysis
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