Anxiety is a normal adaptive stress response due to hospitalization. However, if anxiety is not treated
properly, it can lead to complexity problems in the healing process of patients. Nurses have the
greatest opportunity to provide comprehensive health services to help clients meet basic needs in a
holistic manner. Appealing religion and culture are two ways that can be used to reduce anxiety of
patients who are hospitalized. The purpose of this study is finding out a better approach that it is
needed between religious and cultural approach in reducing anxiety. Crossectionalapproachis used in
this study involving patients who are hospitalized in the hospital and getting anxiety. Samples were
involved in this study are 30 people and they were selected purposively. The collection of data is
done using HARS Instrument, Berg Cultural Questionnaire and Spirirual Needs Questionnaire. Data
were analyzed using Spearman correlation test. The results showed that there was a relationship
between meeting spiritual needs with the anxiety of hospitalized patients (p = 0.014) and there was
no connection between the needs of cultural and the anxiety of hospitalized patients (p = 0.417).
Meeting spiritual and cultural needs are basic needs that should get more attention in reducing
anxiety of patients who are hospitalized in the hospital. Further research would be able to dig up
more details about spiritual and cultural needs that are expected by patient to nurse
