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Introduction: Nurses, because of the nature of their profession require certain abilities. The important ability is psychological empowerment that can be a valuable tool in providing spiritual health.

Methods: This descriptive-correlative study was done to determine the relationship between spiritual health and psychological empowerment in nursing students. The data were collected using a demographic and spiritual well-being and psychological empowerment scale.

Results:The mean score of spiritual well-being (8.48±77.3) and psychological empowerment (1.46±4.16) was determined. There was significant relationship between the two dimensions of psychological empowerment and spiritual well-being.

Conclusion: The spiritual well-being would be  related with psychological empowerment, so the spiritual health can play an important role in the empowerment of nursing students.

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Type of Study: Orginal | Subject: Special
Received: 2016/05/31 | Accepted: 2016/08/14 | Published: 2016/10/3

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