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Spiritual well-being is among the factors that affect subjective recovery. This study aimed to explore the relationship between subjective recovery and spiritual well-being among psychiatric patients and to identify the factors that affected their subjective recovery. A descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted with 96 patients admitted to the psychiatry clinic of a hospital. It was found that the patients had high subjective recovery assessment levels and medium levels of spiritual well-being. There was a positive association between the patients’ subjective recovery assessments and their spiritual well-being, and spiritual well-being was a significant predictor of the subjective recovery level. It is recommended that mental health professionals focus on serving patients through a holistic healthcare approach and enhancing patients’ subjective recovery levels through applications that will strengthen the spiritual dimension.
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CAN ÖZ, Y., DURAN, S. The Effect of Spirituality on the Subjective Recovery of Psychiatric Patients. J Relig Health 60, 2438–2449 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-021-01226-5
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