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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:unisa/oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/22207 |
| Date | 01 1900 |
| Creators | Roberson, Peter |
| Contributors | Van der Merwe, Pieter Retief |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Dissertation |
| Format | 1 online resource (xiv, 162 leaves) : illustrations (some color) |
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