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The role of spirituality in the wellbeing of community health care workers at Temba Community Development Services

The research focused on employee wellness and explored and described the role of spirituality
in the wellbeing of CHCWs of HIV/AIDS patients. It was important to determine how CHCWs
dealt with the stress of caregiving, due to the increasing number of HIV infections and burden
on government resources. The approach was a phenomenological qualitative study using faceto-
face interviews to collect data from a purposive sample of eight CHCWs from a population
of 250 at Temba. The audio-recorded interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed for
emerging themes using thematic analyses. The research findings provided evidence that
spirituality impacted positively on the wellbeing of the CHCWs by providing the coping
mechanism to deal with stress. The conclusions drawn were that personal and organisational
wellbeing operated at an optimal level due to the influence of spirituality.
Recommendations were that formalised spiritual programmes were offered as a tool to equip
CHCWs in their duties. / Industrial and Organisational Psychology / M. Com.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:unisa/oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/22207
Date01 1900
CreatorsRoberson, Peter
ContributorsVan der Merwe, Pieter Retief
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeDissertation
Format1 online resource (xiv, 162 leaves) : illustrations (some color)

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