The relationship between spiritual well-being, hope and depression in gynecologic oncology patients.

MENTAL depression risk factors; WELL-being; RESEARCH; KRUSKAL-Wallis Test; STATISTICS; SPIRITUALITY; RESEARCH methodology; BECK Hopelessness Scale; CROSS-sectional method; WOMEN; INTERVIEWING; MANN Whitney U Test; CANCER patients; RISK assessment; CRONBACH'S alpha; DESPAIR; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; STATISTICAL correlation; DATA analysis software; DATA analysis; SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC factors; FEMALE reproductive organ tumors; DISEASE complications

The authors' aim in this study was to determine the relationship between spiritual well-being, hope and depression in gynecologic oncology patients. This is a descriptive and correlational study. The patients received a total of 41.59 ± 12.11 points from the Spiritual Well-Being Scale, 5.57 ± 4.19 points from the Beck Hopelessness Scale, and 14.92 ± 11.61 points from the Beck Depression Scale. Gynecologic oncology patients had high spiritual well-being levels and low hopelessness and depression levels, and their hopelessness and depression levels decreased and hope levels increased as their spiritual well-being levels increased. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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