Determination of the Spiritual Support Perceptions of Students at a Vocational School of Health Services in Turkey

Abstract

This descriptive and cross-sectional study aimed to determine the spiritual support perceptions of students (n=606) at the Vocational School of Health Services at a university in Turkey in the academic year of 2019–2020. A Personal Information Form and the Spiritual Support Perception Scale were used to collect their data. The data evaluated descriptive analyses, the Kolmogorov–Smirnov test, the Mann– Whitney U test and Kruskal–Wallis test. The mean age of the participants was 19.85±1.78 years, 68.5% of them were female, 34.7% were students at the clini cal laboratory techniques department, and 57.4% were frst-year students. The mean Spiritual Support Perception Scale score of the participants was 50.08±9.93, which was above average.