BACKGROUND: Nursing and midwifery students are the health providers of the society. The nature of these two disciplines is stressful and challenging, and it’s necessary to deal with concepts such as a sense of cohesion to ensure the health of students. Also, it seems that mechanisms such as the spiritual health of persons can help them in challenging conditions. Therefore, this study was conducted to determine the relationship between spiritual health and sense of coherence in nursing and midwifery students at Bushehr University of Medical Sciences. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This cross-sectional study, a descriptive-analytical study was conducted on 290 nursing and midwifery students at two undergraduate and postgraduate levels of Bushehr University of Medical Sciences in 2024. Data collection was done using three questionnaires, including demographic information, Ellison and Paloutzian’s spiritual health, and Antonovsky’s sense of coherence. Data analysis was done by SPSS version 26 software. RESULTS: The mean and standard deviation of spiritual health and sense of coherence were 87.74 ± 17.75 and 53.12 ± 8.69, respectively. The data of the study showed that the spiritual health of 70% of the students was average, and the sense of cohesion of 85.9% of the students was low. There was a positive and significant correlation between spiritual health and sense of coherence ( P < 0.001). CONCLUSION: Since the results of this study showed that spiritual health has a positive and significant correlation with the sense of coherence and that students are one of the most important groups, therefore paying attention to the spiritual dimension of education to improve and promote spiritual health in students provides the basis for increasing the sense of cohesion in students, especially nursing and midwifery students.
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