ORIGINAL PAPER A Concept Analysis of Spiritual Health Akram Sadat Sadat hoseini 1 • Naghmeh Razaghi 2 • Abdul Hosein Khosro Panah 3 • Nahid Dehghan Nayeri 4 Ó Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2017 Abstract Spiritual health is an important dimension of health and forms part of a compre- hensive care. This study was conducted to redefine and clarify the components of spiritual health based on different worldviews through Walker and Avant’s concept analysis method. Being given a life and a soul and having beliefs are the antecedents of spiritual health. The attributes of this concept include a morality-oriented intellectual connectedness with the self, others, and the universe guided by a connection with the Transcendent and Superior being in order to create meaning in life and find its purpose in the context of culture and religion; transcendence is ultimately the consequence of spiritual heath. Using the attributes appeared in this conceptual analysis, nurses can evaluate the spiritual health of their clients and help them create positive outcome by providing appropriate interventions. Keywords Spiritual health Á Concept analysis Á Nursing Introduction Spiritual health helps people live better lives and have a more effective interaction with their surrounding world. Contrary to the past, today, there is a consensus on spirituality as a real phenomenon (Fisher 2011; Moberg 2002). Despite the numerous definitions provided for this concept in literature, there is still no unanimous definition for spirituality and & Naghmeh Razaghi razaghin@mums.ac.ir 1 Pediatric Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Tehran, Iran 2 Pediatric Nursing Department, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Nosrat St, Tohid Sq, Tehran, Iran 3 Iran Philosophy Institute (IPI), Tehran, Iran 4 Nursing Management Department, Nursing and Midwifery Care Research Center, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 123 J Relig Health DOI 10.1007/s10943-017-0522-x