Iranian Journal of Rehabilitation Research in Nursing

Introduction: Religious-Spiritual care cause Balance between physical, mind and spirituality in order to will gain a complete and comprehensive health. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of religious-spiritual care on anxiety among post surgery coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) patients. Methods: This research is a semi-experimental study that was performed in Baghiyatollah hospital of Tehran, Iran on 2013. Sample consisted of 68 participants with coronary artery graft. Participants were selected purposfull and then randomly assigned to: interventional (34) and control group(34). Basic data was collected by Depression Anxiety Stress Scale(DASS-21). Interventional group was received religious-spiritual care based on sterategy of the religious-spiritual Bergin Richards (2005) for 45 to 60 minutes during the fifth session and control group received routine care. Mean anxiety score before and after the intervention was measured. Analysis of data was computerized adopting SPSS 20 package software. Results: Finding of this study indicated any significant difference between mean Anxiety (P= 0/098) score before intervention between interventional and control groups. While after the intervention, significant difference was observed between mean anxiety (p= 0/000) score the interventional and control groups. Anxiety in the interventional group was significantly reduced. Conclusion: The results showed that applying religious-spiritual care, significantly decrease anxiety and depression in the interventional group. It suggested that nurses can use religious-spiritual care as a safe method in the coronary artery bypass graft surgery care.