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Introduction: Dental Students are encountered with a wide range of health-related problems because of studying in stressful clinical environment. Spiritual intelligence and their relationship with other factors like general health are of interesting subjects for behavioural sciences experts. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between general health and spiritual intelligence in dental students of Tehran
Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 481 dental students who studied in different universities of Tehran were enrolled. Data were collected using Spiritual intelligence, General health [GHQ-28] and characteristics demographic questionnaires. Data were also entered into SPSS-v16 and analyzed with correlation test, T-test and ANOVA test. The significant level was <0.05
Results: Dental students have intermediate level of spiritual intelligence and there was no any difference between male and female. There was significant relationship between Spiritual intelligence and General health generally and in all parts [P<0.005]. Grade point average, marital status, educational year and economical state showed significantly correlated with General health. Age, grade point average, educational year and economical state showed significantly correlated with spiritual intelligence
Conclusion: Improvement of spiritual intelligence could help increase the general health of dental students
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Introduction: spiritual intelligence refers to the individual ability in interacting with universe and metacognitive. The present aimed at determining the level of spiritual intelligence of dental students in Tehran universities
Method: this was a cross sectional-descriptive study. A total of 481 dental students of different universities in Tehran, Iran were randomly enrolled in the study. Date were collected using spiritual intelligence questionnaire of Abdullah Zadeh including demographic data such as: gender, age, semester, GPA, economic situation, residential, and marital status. Then data was analyzed using SPSS and inferential statistics such as independent t-test and ANOVA
Results: spiritual intelligence in dental students of Tehran universities was moderately high; however, no statistically significant difference was found between male and female students. A significant relationship was found between spiritual intelligence and age, study courses, GPA, and economic status [P<0.05]. However, no significant difference was found between spiritual intelligence and other variables including gender, marital status, and residence
Conclusion: spiritual intelligence of the students increased with the increase of age, GPA, economic status, and years in the university. Intermediate level students need more attention in order to improve their spiritual intelligence. However, deeper analysis of spiritual intelligence and better understanding of associated factors revealed the need to conduct further studies that show correlation between other factors such as public health and welfare with spiritual intelligence
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Objective: The incidence of heterotopic pregnancy [HP] has risen in recent years, largely due to more frequent use of ovulatory medicine and increased incidence of pelvic inflammatory disease. Most HP are localized in the uterine tube and, usually, it is diagnosed when symptoms develop
Report: We report the case of a 32 year-old, gravida1, para 0, woman with fertile by IVF. The patient attended the emergency department because of acute aabdominal pain. She was evaluated in our department and a heterotopic twin pregnancy in the tube was diagnosed by transvaginal sonography. Intrauterine pregnancy with positive fetal cardiac activity at 9 weeks of gestation according to crown-rump length measurement was detected. Laparotomy was carried out because of acute abdominal syndrome. Right ruptured tubal ectopic/ heterotopic pregnancy and hemoperitoneum were diagnosed. Right salpingectomy was carried out
Conclusion: The incidence of HP is increasing due to the widespread use of assisted reproductive technology. An early transvaginal sonography performed by experienced radiologist/radiographer is considered to be essential and beneficial in establishing early diagnosis of HP. Both salpingectomy and selective fetal reduction by embryo aspiration can be administered as one of the effective therapies for HP with the optimal outcome of intrauterine pregnancy