Aloha International Journal of Multidisciplinary Advancement (AIJMU)
Vol 1, No 2 (2019): FEBRUARY

Islamic Spiritual Wellbeing among Elders

Minarti Minarti (Department of Nursing, Poltekkes Kemenkes Surabaya)
Kastubi Kastubi (Department of Nursing, Poltekkes Kemenkes Surabaya)



Article Info

Publish Date
03 Mar 2019

Abstract

Aging among elders creates various problems, including health issues. Fulfilling spiritual wellbeing is important in both sickness and healthy conditions. Continual spiritual distress influence health status of elders including decrease on eating, sleeping disorder, and increase on blood pressure. This study aims to investigate Islamic spiritual wellbeing among elder in Posyandu around Surabaya. It specifically identifies Islamic spiritual wellbeing based on repentance, patience, submission, and contentment. It is a descriptive study recruiting 45 elders population and purposively selected 43 among them as samples. The study reveals that 90.70% of the elders experience a high quality of spiritual wellbeing. Repentance reaches 88.37%, contentment (86.05%), submission (66.77%) and patience (67.44%). This study recommends that elders need to maintain and increase their spiritual wellbeing. Keywords: Islamic, Spiritual Wellbeing, Elders

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Journal Info

Abbrev

aijmu

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Computer Science & IT Decision Sciences, Operations Research & Management Health Professions Social Sciences

Description

AIJMU is an online media publication in the international scope, for scientific works in all fields of science such as health, education, management, biology, engineering, humanities, economics, law, art and so on. The types of scientific works published are research articles, literature review, ...