Effect of spirituality and spiritual wellbeing on life quality

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Background: Despite of all human achievements and facilities, life dissatisfaction is an important problem for families and communities. Each day the number of people who believe that spiritual factors can have impact on their life quality, and it is a treatment for their weakness and helplessness, is growing. Also there is a growing tendency to specialists who cure illnesses and maintain patient’s health using spirituality. The aim of the present systematic review was the evaluation of spiritual and spiritual wellbeing on life quality. Materials and Methods: In this systematic review, relevant papers were gathered and analyzed from scientific databases such as ScienceDirect, Pubmed, IRANDOC, IranMedex and SID Conclusion: Our research showed that people with higher spiritual health experience: high quality and healthy life with more acceptable lifetime and lesser mortality, lesser diseases and higher diseases tolerance, higher disease recovery, higher life satisfaction, lower use of health care services and higher social activities. Almost all papers were agreed that spiritual wellbeing is effective on people life; therefore the researchers suggest use of spirituality along with conventional treatment to control diseases and improvement of people quality of life.

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