Predicting Health Anxiety in Students based on Spiritual Experiences and Self-care Behaviors

Background and purpose: health anxiety is one of the important concerns of clinical specialists; which increases the use of psychological, health and medical services, so the present study aimed to investigate the role of spiritual experiences and self-care behaviors in predicting students' health anxiety. Methods: The present study was descriptive-correlational. The research population included all the male and female students of Farhangian University of South Khorasan province in the summer of ۲۰۲۳, who were selected from ۳۲۰ eligible people based on the table of Kejarsi and Morgan (۱۹۷۱) using stratified sampling method (boys and girls). The data collection tools included the questionnaires of spiritual experiences of Underwood and Tersi (۲۰۰۲), eternal self-care (۲۰۱۶) and health anxiety of Salkoskis and Warwick (۲۰۰۲). SPSS version ۲۴ software and Pearson correlation test and multiple regression were used in data analysis. Findings: The results showed that the correlation between spiritual experiences and self-care behaviors with health anxiety is negative and significant (p<۰.۰۱). The components of spiritual experiences explained ۳۲.۷% and self-care behaviors explained ۳۹% of the variance of health anxiety. Conclusion: The results show the importance of strengthening spiritual experiences and self-care behaviors in the design and modification of interventions related to health anxiety in health system policies.

کلیدواژه ها:

Spiritual experiences ، Self-care behaviors ، Health anxiety ، Students. ، تجارب معنوی ، رفتارهای خودمراقبتی ، اضطراب سلامتی ، دانشجویان.