نشریه دین و سلامت
سال دهم شماره 1 (پیاپی 18، بهار و تابستان 1401)

The operating room environment is one of the stressful places. Listening to the Holy Quran can produce a comforting effect in this environment. In this study, the effect of listening to the Holy Quran on vital signs and physiological changes was investigated in the patients undergoing orthopedic surgery in Shahid Rajaee Hospital of Qazvin, Iran.

This study was conducted on 164 patients aged 20-65 years, who were candidates for undergoing lower limb orthopedic surgery. The samples were randomly assigned to three groups, namely Control (without playing the Holy Quran), Sham (with a headset without playing the Holy Quran), and Experimental (with a headset and playing the Holy Quran). The patient's vital signs and physiological parameters, such as systolic and diastolic blood pressure, heart rate, arterial oxygen saturation, end-expiratory carbon dioxide, and anesthetic depth, were monitored and recorded. All patients were treated equally in the premedication, induction and maintenance of anesthesia, and recovery. Data were analyzed in SPSS software (version 19) using statistical tests.

Diastolic blood pressure, heart rate, and end-expiratory carbon dioxide were lower and more stable in the anesthetic patient that listened to the Holy Quran, compare to those in the other groups.

Based on the results, listening to the Holy Quran during anesthesia stabilized the hemodynamic status of patients during surgery.

Based on the results, listening to the Quran during anesthesia stabilizes the hemodynamic status of patients during orthopedic surgery.

Fostering critical thinking is one of the most important goals of higher education in any country. Considering the controversial issues regarding the role of religious beliefs in human life and reports on the impact of critical thinking on religious beliefs, the present study aimed to investigate the Relationship between critical thinking and religious beliefs in medical students in Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences in 2020.

This descriptive-correlational study was performed on 154 (79 female and 75 male) medical students of Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences in 2020 by convenience sampling method. The California Critical Thinking Skills Test  (Form B) and  Glock and Stark's questionnaires were used for data collection. To investigate the Relationship between critical thinking skill and religiosity, the data were analyzed in SPSS software (version 18) using the Pearson correlation coefficient. A p-value less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant.

Regarding gender, 75 (48.5%) students were male, and 79 (51.5%) cases were female, with a mean age of 23.1±3.2 years. The mean scores of students' critical thinking skills and religious beliefs were obtained at 12.95±4.7 and 76.88± 17 17.4, respectively. The results demonstrated no statistically significant relationship between the mean scores of critical thinking skills and religious beliefs (r = -0.01, P= 0.455).

As evidenced by the results of this study, there was no significant relationship between critical thinking skills and the religiosity of students. That is to say, critical thinking and religious beliefs are not inherently incompatible, and religious beliefs do not create a barrier to students' critical thinking.

Spirituality and social responsibility are among the factors affecting the health of communities. This study aimed to investigate the relationship of spirituality and social responsibility with adherence to health guidelines during the Coronavirus pandemic.

The present study followed a descriptive cross-sectional correlational methodology. The statistical population included all Iranians aged 15 to 64 years in 2021, from which 421 people were selected through convenience sampling. Data collection instruments were Spirituality Questionnaire (Parsian & Dunning, 2009), Social Responsibility Questionnaire (Schuyt, 2004), and a researcher-made Adherence to Health Guidelines questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed by the SPSS software (version 16) using the Pearson correlation coefficient and stepwise regression statistical tests.

The results of the Pearson correlation coefficient test showed a significant relationship between spirituality (r=0.320, P=0.000) and social responsibility (r=0.226, P=0.000) with and adherence to health guidelines. The findings of the regression analysis test also revealed that spirituality and social responsibility predicted 14% of variable changes in adherence to health guidelines.

Since spirituality and social responsibility can be taught, it is recommended that health policymakers and public education providers promote adherence to health guidelines during the Coronavirus pandemic through these variables.

Aging includes natural, progressive, and irreversible physiological changes that affect physical and mental strength. Religious involvement can help older adults cope with these changes and the stresses of later life. This integrative review study aimed to determine the role of religious involvement in health in later life. To this end, the authors searched keywords, such as religious involvement, religious participation, religious attendance, aged, senior, older adults, older people, aging, later life, elderly, health, and well-being, in the databases, including Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed, and Google Scholar, from 2015 to 2021. Initially, 162 articles were found, and then, 26 were selected based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The results of this study were categorized into three main parts: the role of religious involvement in physical health, mental health, and social health in older adults. According to the findings, the role of religious involvement in the physical health dimension included reducing mortality, reducing the burden of diseases, as well as improving lifestyle and physiological function. The role of religious involvement in the mental health dimension included reducing depression, anxiety, and sleep disorders and increasing resilience, peace, and life satisfaction. The role of religious involvement in the social health dimension included receiving social support and a sense of social cohesion. It can be concluded that participation in religious activities can lead to health promotion in later life. Furthermore, by identifying the needs and interests of the older adults in this scope, health researchers can provide preventive interventions for them with a focus on education and care to promote their health.

Today, the consequences of the spread of COVID-19 on the religious aspect of human life is one of the discussing areas. Therefore, the present study aimed to assess the relationship between religiosity and the meaning of life, and the spiritual health of the students of Islamic Azad University of Babol during the COVID-19 period.

The statistical sample in this descriptive-correlational study included 330 students in the Islamic Azad University, Babol Branch, Babol, Iran, in the academic year 2019-2019 in the age range of 20-29 years, who were selected through simple random sampling method and the questionnaire link has been sent to them through online social networks. Data were collected through standard questionnaires, including Polotzin and Ellison's spiritual health questionnaire (1983),  Steger’s Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ, 2006), and Khodayari Fard et al.’s religiosity measurement scale (2015). The data were analyzed using SPSS software (version 26) through descriptive statistics, the Pearson correlation coefficient, and focal regression. All ethical considerations have been observed in this study and the authors have not reported any conflict of interest.

The findings showed a positive and significant relationship between religiosity with the meaningfulness of life and spiritual health in students. The effect of religiosity on the meaningfulness of students’ lives and spiritual health was found to be 0.651 and 0.552, respectively.

Targeting the meaningfulness of life and spiritual health through religious and spiritual interventions can be effective in improving the meaningfulness of life and spiritual health of students during the COVID-19 epidemic.

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a globally prevalent and often life-threatening disease that carries immense psychological burdens, such as body image concerns. Therefore, identifying protective psychological factors affecting body image concerns in CKD patients is of strong relevance. This study investigates the potential mediating role of religious coping in the relationship between self-care behavior and body image concerns among Iranian patients undergoing hemodialysis.

A cross-sectional design was used to evaluate body image concerns, religious coping, and self-care behavior in a convenience sample of 280 hemodialysis patients. Measurements included demographic factors, health characteristics, and valid instruments of study structures. Path analysis was used to evaluate mediating models.

The results showed a significantly negative relationship between self-care behavior and body image concerns (B=-0.162, β=-0.140, P=0.020). Additionally, variables of age (B=-0.164, β=-0.163, P=0.07), gender (B=4.169, β=0.154, P=0.011), and self-care behavior (B=-0.162, β=-0.140, P=0.020) were found to predict body image concerns in patients undergoing hemodialysis. These variables explained 7.5% of the predictors. The findings indicated a direct path from self-care behavior (β=-0.015, P=0.002) to body image concerns. However, when religious coping was introduced as a mediating variable, the relationship between self-care behavior and body image concerns became significant (β=0.020, =0.012, P).

In this study, religious coping clarified the relationship between self-care behavior and concerns about body image to some extent. In countries such as Iran, where religiosity is an important psychological construct, the findings can explain why religious people experience less concern about their body image changes.

Increased information production and high-speed data exchange have presented people with daunting  challenges, such as information overload and cognitive-anxiety, which endanger their mental health. Moroever, a large amount of information concering Covid-19 has caused anxiety in people. Western thinkers have proposed strategies to manage these mental concequqnces. Furthermore, Islamic religious texts also contain material in this regard. The current study aimed to develop a protocol to deal with information overload using Islamic sources and examine its effect on the reduction of Covid-19-induced anxiety.

The present study follows a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. The qualitative method in this research was a religious method based on which the content analysis method of Islamic verses and hadiths were used to extract the protocol of coping with information overload from Islamic sources. The quantitative method was a quasi-experimental design that was implemented on three groups of patients (n=12 in each group) with symptoms of Corona-19 anxiety and above-average anxiety. In this research, Kattle Anxiety Inventory was used to collect data on anxiety. Two of the three groups were regarded as experimental, and one group was considered the control group. One group received the Islamic Protocol against Information Overload and the other group received cognitive-behavioral therapy. Test results in all three groups were measured and compared in three time periods.

This study was conducted to develop a protocol to deal with information overload and reduce Covid-19 anxiety. To reduce this anxiety, the Islamic protocol for dealing with information overload was used in six sessions. The findings pointed out that the protocol of coping with information overload based on Islamic sources was more effective in the reduction of Covid-19 anxiety compared to cognitive-behavioral protocol.

One of the effective methods in the management of anxiety is controlling the input information for better processing. Proper processing of information in various fields, such as Coovid-19, has a significant effect on the mitigation of anxiety.