Evaluation of the relationship between Spiritual Intelligence and job burnout in staff of Imam Reza hospital in Mashhad

The hospitals and medical centers’ staff are always exposed to stressful working conditions that threat their physical, psychological and social health but also reduced organizational efficiency and lead to exorbitant costs for individuals, organizations and the entire society. The spiritual intelligence play an important role in enhancing capacity and various pressures, so the purpose of the present study was to determine the relationship between the spiritual intelligence and burnout in staff of Imam Reza hospital of Mashhad. Methods and materials: This cross-sectional study conducted in 2013 on 246 employees of Imam Reza hospital in Mashhad who were enrolled in a simple random sampling design. Were applied to gather the related data, The King Standardized spiritual intelligence questionnaire as well as Maslash Standardized occupational burnout questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed through Spss16, t - test, Anova and Pearson correlation coefficient. The error rate of %5 was considered acceptable. Spiritual intelligence in staff was at moderate to high and job burnout was moderate. There was found a significant negative Correlation between the spiritual intelligence and occupational burnout in the staff of Imam Reza hospital (r = -0.239 & p-value = 0.001) Systems’ managers can identify and improve the components of spiritual intelligence of their staff through various approaches such as improving the training systems as well as providing the contexts in which the spiritual intelligence of their staff can be developed.