Afsaneh Geravand1 Zahra Rahimi2 Mohammad Hossein Taghdisi3 Kamal Azam4 Shaghayegh Kamian5 Fatemeh Estebsari6*
Cancer is a common and chronic disease that creates a deep semantic crisis in the person diagnosed with it. The purpose of randomized controlled intervention trial was to use the Integrated Behavioral Model for promoting spiritual health in breast cancer patients in order to increases their adaption with cancer in 2013. One hundred women with breast cancer were selected and randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups (each group comprising 50 women). These women filled the standard Paloutzian-Ellison spiritual health questionnaire, the researcher-developed questionnaire on adjusted behavior, and the knowledge, attitude, subjective norms, and self-efficacy assessment questionnaire in the form of the Integrated Behavioral Model before and after educational intervention in their disease. Health promoting intervention took place face-to-face and individually. The statistical tests of chi-square, Independent t-test, and paired t-test, Pearson correlation coefficient, and the ANOVA statistical test at the significance level of 95 percent were used to analyze the collected data. The average score on knowledge, attitude, and self-efficacy in patients of the experimental group was significantly higher than that of the control group (p<0.001). Pearson correlation coefficient showed that there was a meaningful relationship between the scores on spiritual health and adjusted behavior (p<0.001). Educational intervention with the purpose of promoting spiritual health is effective in improving knowledge, attitude, self-efficacy, and adjustment to the disease. It is necessary that members of healthcare teams pay special attention to this issue.
