Factors affecting spiritual care competency of mental health nurses: a questionnaire-based cross-sectional study.

Background: Although providing spiritual care is an important part of holistic nursing care for psychiatric patients, factors associated with spiritual care competency in mental health nurses remain unclear. The aim of our study was to explore a possible association of personal and external factors with spiritual care competency in mental health nurses.

Methods: This prospective questionnaire-based cross-sectional study was conducted by inviting mental health nurses from mental health hospitals and tertiary referral centers.

Impacts of extrinsic and intrinsic factors on psychiatric nurses' spiritual care attitudes.

WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: Because the definition of spirituality is complex and has cultural and individual dimensions, it is important to be receptive to individual differences in the perception of spirituality during clinical practice of mental health nurses. Although enhancing spiritual care is beneficial to patients diagnosed with mental illnesses, the extrinsic (e.g.

The Feeling of "Face" in Confucian Society: From a Perspective of Psychosocial Equilibrium.

Previous research on the feeling of "face" has long described "face" as a complicated phenomenon in Confucian societies. Indeed, the feeling of face is highly context dependent. One may have very different (having or losing) face perception if the same face event occurs in a different context.