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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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After delivery, family's attention changes from mother to child, while mothers tend to get very busy and do not pay attention to their health. The aim of this study was to determine prevalence and persistence of health problems after child birth and maternal correlations with parity In this descriptive-longitudinal, study 308 mothers who visited Mahabad community health centers for parental care [36-38 weeks] were selected. Instrument in this study was Postpartum Morbidity Scale, which developed by researcher. Content validity, internal consistency [0.94] and test-retest reliability [0.98] was measured. Data gathered by interview at 7 days, 8 weeks and 12 months after delivery and analyzed by SPSS/18. To determine difference and causing problems among multiparous women primiparous, Chi[2] was used and 95% confidence interval was used to determine the relative risk. The result showed that common reported problems at first and second stage were backache 64% and 60% and fatigue 63% and 60% respectively. However, after 12 months of the delivery fatigue was 43%. During 7 days of delivery, we found significant relationship between backache [P=0.005], headache [P=0.013], tiredness [P=0.008], side effect of anesthesia [P=0.041] and sleep problems [P=0.001] with multiparous mothers. These values after 8 weeks of delivery were backache [P=0.047], stitches infection [P=0.023], urinary tract infection [P=0.000], sex problems [P=0.003], postpartum blue [P=0.002], sleep problems [P=0.001] reported more between multiparous.12 months after delivery, there were a significant relation between postpartum blue [P=0.024], sex problem [P=0.001], sleep problems [P=0.036] and multiparous of mothers. Due to high prevalence of postpartum morbidities and lack of attention to solving these problems, changing the postpartum regular care and offering educational courses to mothers are necessary and highly recommended