Shamsaei M, Maleki A. Investigating the Effect of Spiritual Health and Spiritual Intelligence on the Quality of Life in Medical Students of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. Health Spiritual Med Ethics 2025; 12 (1)
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1- Department of Islamic Studies and Research Center of Quran, Hadith and Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz,Iran, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz,Iran , Shamsaie2008@yahoo.com
2- Doctor 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 cognitive-motivational and is one of the types of multiple intelligences. 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. Correct understanding and application of these principles leads to correct and purposeful behavior in life and spiritual health. This study was conducted with the aim of to investigate the effect mouseout="msoCommentHide('_com_1')" onmouseover="msoCommentShow('_anchor_1','_com_1')">[زهرا1] of spiritual health and spiritual intelligence on the quality of life of medical students at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences.
Materials and Methods: The study is cross-sectional with descriptive-analytical method, observationalmouseout="msoCommentHide('_com_2')" onmouseover="msoCommentShow('_anchor_2','_com_2')">[زهرا2] 108 basic science students, 54 physiopathology students, and 188 clinical medical students of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in 2024 were investigated. In order to collect data, a questionnaire form including questionnaires of Spiritual health questionnaire of the Academy of Medical Sciences, spiritual intelligence of Hildebrant, and quality of life of WHOQOL-BREF was used.mouseout="msoCommentHide('_com_3')" onmouseover="msoCommentShow('_anchor_3','_com_3')">[زهرا3]
Results. 350 people were investigated, 173 (49.4%) of them were women and 177 (50.6%) of them were men. The average age of the studied population was 23.22 ± 2.89. The average spiritual health of the participants was in the medium range and the average 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 average quality of life score of the studied population after standardization in the range of 0-100 was equal to 46.18, which was close to the average. The state of quality of life 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 quality of life had a statistically significant relationship with the level of spiritual health and spiritual intelligence in such a way that the highest quality of life was related to the category with high level of spiritual health and high spiritual intelligence, and low quality of life had the highest prevalence in the category with low level of spiritual health and low spiritual intelligence.
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Special Received: 2024/12/18 | Accepted: 2025/02/4 | Published: 2025/02/28