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Shamsaei M, Maleki A. Investigating the Effect of Spiritual Health and Spiritual Intelligence on the Quality of Life in Medical Students. Health Spiritual Med Ethics 2025; 12 (1) :55-64
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1- Department of Islamic Education, Research Centre of Quran, Hadith and Medicine, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran., Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz,Iran , Shamsaie2008@yahoo.com
2- School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran., Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz,Iran
2- School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran., Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz,Iran
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Background and Objectives: Spiritual intelligence is a cognitive-motivational aspect and one of the multiple intelligence types. Spiritual health, which in the Holy Qur’an refers to a healthy heart and a confident soul, is a state of the soul, and its most important foundations are theology, anthropology, and eschatology. Understanding and applying these principles leads to correct and purposeful behavior in life and spiritual health. This study investigates the effect of spiritual health and spiritual intelligence on the quality of life (QOL) of medical students at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences.
Methods: This study uses a cross-sectional with descriptive-analytical method. A total of 108 basic science students, 54 physiopathology students, and 188 clinical medical students of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in 2024 were investigated. To collect the data, a questionnaire form including questionnaires of spiritual health questionnaire of the Academy of Medical Sciences, spiritual intelligence of Hildebrant, and the QOL of the World Health Organization QOL questionnaire-brief (WHOQOL-BREF) were used.
Results: A total of 350 people were investigated, comprising 173(49.4%) women and 177(50.6%) men. The mean age of the studied population was 23.22±2.89. The mean spiritual health of the participants was in the medium range, and the mean spiritual intelligence of the participants was in the high range. The level of spiritual health and spiritual intelligence did not have a statistically significant relationship with any of the demographic variables except underlying psychiatric illness. The mean QOL score of the studied population after standardization in the range of 0-100 was equal to 46.18, which was close to the mean. The state of QOL had a statistically significant relationship with the underlying psychiatric illness variable, and it did not have a statistically significant relationship with other demographic variables. The state of QOL had a statistically significant relationship with the level of spiritual health and spiritual intelligence in such a way that the highest QOL was related to the category with high level of spiritual health and high spiritual intelligence, and low QOL had the highest prevalence in the category with low level of spiritual health and low spiritual intelligence.
Conclusion: There is a significant relationship between spiritual health, spiritual intelligence, and QOL in medical students of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. Accordingly, promoting spiritual health and spiritual intelligence can be considered as one of the approaches to increase the QOL in student populations.
Methods: This study uses a cross-sectional with descriptive-analytical method. A total of 108 basic science students, 54 physiopathology students, and 188 clinical medical students of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in 2024 were investigated. To collect the data, a questionnaire form including questionnaires of spiritual health questionnaire of the Academy of Medical Sciences, spiritual intelligence of Hildebrant, and the QOL of the World Health Organization QOL questionnaire-brief (WHOQOL-BREF) were used.
Results: A total of 350 people were investigated, comprising 173(49.4%) women and 177(50.6%) men. The mean age of the studied population was 23.22±2.89. The mean spiritual health of the participants was in the medium range, and the mean spiritual intelligence of the participants was in the high range. The level of spiritual health and spiritual intelligence did not have a statistically significant relationship with any of the demographic variables except underlying psychiatric illness. The mean QOL score of the studied population after standardization in the range of 0-100 was equal to 46.18, which was close to the mean. The state of QOL had a statistically significant relationship with the underlying psychiatric illness variable, and it did not have a statistically significant relationship with other demographic variables. The state of QOL had a statistically significant relationship with the level of spiritual health and spiritual intelligence in such a way that the highest QOL was related to the category with high level of spiritual health and high spiritual intelligence, and low QOL had the highest prevalence in the category with low level of spiritual health and low spiritual intelligence.
Conclusion: There is a significant relationship between spiritual health, spiritual intelligence, and QOL in medical students of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. Accordingly, promoting spiritual health and spiritual intelligence can be considered as one of the approaches to increase the QOL in student populations.
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Received: 2024/12/18 | Accepted: 2025/02/4 | Published: 2025/02/28
Received: 2024/12/18 | Accepted: 2025/02/4 | Published: 2025/02/28
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