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The participants were over 18\u2009years of age and referred to the MS Clinic.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>The subjects were selected using convenience sampling. Data were collected using Cheraghi and Davari Dolatabadi's Perceived Social Support and Paloutzian and Ellison's Spiritual Well\u2010Being (SWB) questionnaires and analysed using descriptive (number and percentage, mean and standard deviation) and inferential (Pearson's test, linear regression) statistics in SPSS software.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Pearson correlation test indicated that there was a direct relationship between spiritual well\u2010being and the total score of perceived social support (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.415, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u20090.001) and the emotional (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.328, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.004) and informational (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.311, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.006) dimensions; this relationship was not significant in the instrumental dimension (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.197, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.081). Moreover, linear logistic regression analysis showed that in MS patients, the chance of spiritual well\u2010being among MS patients will be increased by 59.2% per unit increase in emotional support. Also, the chance of spiritual well\u2010being increases by 34.1% for each score increase in the age of MS patients.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>It is necessary that age and perceived emotional support, as a strong predictor of spiritual health status, are considered in designing health promotion interventions for patients with MS.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1002\/nop2.2204","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,5,13]],"date-time":"2025-05-13T05:15:38Z","timestamp":1747113338000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["The Relationship Between Perceived Social Support and Spiritual Well\u2010Being in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis"],"prefix":"10.1002","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6939-6053","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Fatemeh","family":"Nazari","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Nursing and Midwifery Care Research Center Isfahan University of Medical Sciences  Isfahan Iran"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Vahid","family":"Shaygannejad","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Isfahan Neurosciences Research Centre, Neurology Department, School of Medicine Isfahan University of Medical Sciences  Isfahan Iran"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8250-8120","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Leila","family":"Mardanian Dehkordi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Nursing and Midwifery Care Research Center Isfahan University of Medical Sciences  Isfahan Iran"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,5,13]]},"reference":[{"issue":"3","key":"e_1_2_10_2_1","first-page":"242","article-title":"Nursing Students' Spiritual Well\u2010Being, Spirituality and Spiritual Care","volume":"19","author":"Abbasi M.","year":"2014","journal-title":"Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research"},{"issue":"1","key":"e_1_2_10_3_1","first-page":"1","article-title":"The Study of the Relationship Between Demographic Characteristics and Spiritual Well\u2010Being Among Adolescent Students","volume":"15","author":"Ahmadpoori F.","year":"2020","journal-title":"Iranian Journal of Nursing Research"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_4_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1038\/s41598\u2010020\u201070919\u2010w"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_5_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1080\/02673843.2017.1352522"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_6_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.21859\/JVesselCirc.1.1.41"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_7_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.msard.2022.104310"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_8_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.4103\/shb.shb_188_22"},{"issue":"3","key":"e_1_2_10_9_1","first-page":"276","article-title":"Validation of the Persian Version of Spiritual Well\u2010Being Questionnaires","volume":"43","author":"Biglari Abhari M.","year":"2018","journal-title":"Iran Journal of Nursing"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_10_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.3389\/fpsyg.2020.01997"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_11_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s11126\u2010022\u201010003\u2010w"},{"issue":"3","key":"e_1_2_10_12_1","first-page":"195","article-title":"Development and Psychometric Evaluation of the Heart Failure Patients' Perceived Social Support Inventory","volume":"15","author":"Cheraghi M. 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