ABSTRACT
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
ABSTRACT
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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The purpose of this study was to investigate and compare the inhibitory factors involved in the non-urgency consultation with the dentist. This cross-sectional study was conducted on 200 people of Tehran citizens [109 females and 91 males] with the mean age of 35 Years, by phone - calls. The information about the last systemic consultation, the reasons for non-consultation and the amount of fear about dentistry practices were considered significantly important and the knowledge about age, sex, level of education and smoking were considered as minor ones. The results showed that the average of non-urgency consultation for males was 265 days and that of females was 118 days. The most important inhibitory factor, in the non-urgency consultation, was their lack of need for dental visits. Time shortage and expensive costs were ranked as other factors [41.3% and 28.2%, respectively]. Lack of confidence about infection control and asepsis were found to be the weakest inhibitory factors [18% among females and 4.4% among maes]. Fear of dentistry was reported as the major etiologic factor, in non-urgency consultation, in most studies, however, in the present study no statistically significant differences were observed between fear age, sex, level of education, smoking, Therefore, it is suggested that fear is not considered as a major factor in the present study. From among the total participants: 50.5% were without fear, 14.5% had a slight fear, 15.5% had a mild fear and 1915% showed a severe fear. As a conclusion, in order to prevent more severe defects followed by more aggressive treatments, providing the patients with the knowledge about systemic consultation with a dentist seems a necessity