مجله پژوهش در دین و سلامت
سال یکم شماره 1 (زمستان 1393)

Department of Basic Sicences, School of Paramedical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.Health care is one of the biggest challenges for human life so achieving it requires considerable cost. the religions try to improve human health and provide completed instructions in the field of health. Application of religious references requires doing qualified researchers. since the main part of research products publishes via the scientific journals, the journal of “journal of research on religion & health” (JRRH) is going to publish the latest findings based on religious instructions in the field of human health. Performing qualified researches about influence of religion on the spiritual, physical and social health improves life quality and protecting human health from the known and unknown threats. This journal particularly welcomes the religious theorems related to the human health and life quality and researchers that analysis the religion references for clarification of problems in the human health. We hope with god’s help and welcome researchers JRRH could be one of the most important and valid references in the field of human health sciences.

Nowadays, intensive care unit nurses face with numerous moral distress. Moral distress causes a series of responses in nurses. With recognizing these responses, strategies can be used for reducing them. This research was conducted to explain religious responses of ICU nurses to moral distress. Materials and This qualitative study (which is part of a doctoral thesis) with content analysis approach was done in order to describe of ICU nurses’ religious responses to moral distress. In this study, the data were collected by semi-structured and deep interviews with 18 individual and two group interviews with clinical nurses whom working in different cities in Iran. A Purposive sampling and data analysis with conventional content analysis were done. 26 nurses were participated in this study. During the process of content analysis, 5 subcategories, and 2 categories were obtained. These categories of ICU nurses ‘religious responses to moral distress’ included: "religious beliefs", and "Impairment of religious beliefs". Results of this study showed a firm faith in God and trust in him causes positive response. Weakness and insecurity in the faith cause negative response to moral distress. Main theme in this research was religious responses. Results of this study showed that ICU nurses use various positive and negative responses in deal of moral distress. Nurse administrators can help ICU nurses to diminish moral distress, learn the correct religious beliefs, and prevent harmful outcomes. Teaching religious beliefs, during college, empowering and enhancing the religious capacity is necessary for coping with moral distress.

Background Spiritual wellbeing is considered as an important aspect of human health which provides a coordinated and integrated relation between the internal forces, and by creating meaning and purpose in life is thought as an important approach to promote general health. Thus, this study was conducted with the aim to assess the Spiritual wellbeing of the staff of one University of Medical Sciences in Tehran city. This cross-sectional study was conducted on 503 university employees (including the three covered hospitals and the faculties’ staff) with a multi-stage sampling (based on the percentage of the employed people in each department/ administrative or medical staff), during 2012. The data were collected through Ellison and Paloutzian 20-item Spiritual wellbeing questionnaires and after determining their validity and reliability by self report, then were analyzed with SPSS software version 16, One way-ANOVA and correlation tests. According to the results, 57.3% of the staff were women, 61.8% were married and 26.4% had a work experience between 3 to 5 years. In this study, a total of 61.4% of the staff had a good Spiritual wellbeing score. Spiritual wellbeing had significant relationship with age, work experience, history of psychiatric disorders, moderate physical activity, housing conditions and participation in the rites of Hajj association. Planning to promote physical, psychological, social and occupational health in staff is a top priority. Regarding the promotion of the income, welfare, physical activity and lifestyle is recommended for the employee.

Oxidative stress represents an imbalance between the production of reactive oxygen species and a biological system's ability to readily detoxify the reactive intermediates or to repair the resulting damage. Calorie restriction canreduce the damages caused by oxidative stress.

The subjects, who were healthy males and females able to fast for a month, were randomly selectedfrom the staff of Hippocrates and Imam Khomeini hospitals. Samples of their serum and urine were collected three times, i.e. 4 days before fasting as control, on the 14th day of fasting, and on the 29th day of fasting. Plasma malondialdehyde levels were measured using HPLC technique, while the levels of protein carbonyl groups in plasma, and the levels of 8-iso prostaglandin F2α and 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine in urine were measured by ELISA technique. The data were analyzed using SPSS, t test paired samples, Independentttest the level of statistical significance was considered to be p <0.05.

Totally, 60 subjects participated in the study, where seven participants were male (11%) and 53 subjects (89%) were female. Mean and SD of the age of the participants were 37±10 years. Concentrations of plasmamalondialdehyde and 8-iso prostaglandin F2α in urine showed a significant decrease during fasting in Ramadan in all subjects compared with the control samples; moreover, their levels in the third sampling round were significantly lower than that in the second one (p < 0.01).

Since plasma levels of MDA and urin levels of 8-isoPGF significantly were decreased during fasting in Ramadan.It seems that fasting a month decreased oxidative stress. we hope that with more study in future, we can use Ramadan fasting as a natural way to protect human against different disease which oxidative stress is involved.

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The mental health of students is one of the major issues in psychology, psychiatry and sociology.Find treatment ways to improve mental health for the fewer complications, more profitability and affordability are the main goals of the psychiatrists and psychologists.The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of spiritual intelligence on the mental health ofthe high school students in 14th District of Tehran.

This study is a clinical trial, which involved 60 students from secondary schools, Vocational technical Shahid Chamran school, in 14th District of Tehran. The study population included high school students of, Vocational technical Shahid Chamran school, in 14th District of Tehran. The sampling method in this study was a multi-stage clusters,That the few high schools were selected from high schools in 14th District of Tehran among them Vocational technical Shahid Chamran school was stusied as the target population.Total of 60 persons randomly were selected from students in the school and were studied in two experimental(n=30)and control groups (n = 28). Experimental group participated in seven weekly sessions of spiritual intelligence intervention, while the control group did not receive any treatment. In this study, the data collection instrument was questionnaire SCL-90.Data were analyzed using SPSS software and descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (independent group-T,dependentT).

Statistical analysis showed that seven sessions of spiritual intelligence decreased significantly interpersonal sensitivity, somatization, obsessive-compulsive, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation, and psychosis in post-test compared to before test and seven sessions of spiritual intelligence reduces interpersonal sensitivity, somatization, obsessive-compulsive, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation and psychoticism in experimental group compared with a control group.

The results of this study showed mental health interventions can be used to promote spiritual intelligence.

Religion is one of the most fundamental and important institutions that human society has ever known, and concepts such asself-control, spiritualhealth, and religious attitudes are the most important religious components; which play an important role in religious, social, and personality education/training in the society. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to investigate the relationship between the three components of religious attitudes, self- control and spiritual health among the Basij Sisters of Shoush city. The sample used in this study consisted of 50 participants, who were selected by simple random sampling among the Basij Sisters. The instruments used for data collection consist of Religious Attitude Scale (Baraheni), Continence Questionnaire (self-made), and Palutzian and Ellison Spiritual health Questionnaire. In fact, this descriptive study is a correlation study which examine the relationship between (religious attitudes and self-control), (religious attitudes and spiritual health), and (self-control and spiritual health) among the Basij Sisters.All data were analyzed using statistical software (spss version 21), and Pearson correlation coefficient method and multivariate regression analysis were used to determine the relationship between the variables. The results showed that, there are asignificant positive relationship between religious attitude and continence. (P< 0/02). It was also noted that, there is asignificant positive relationship between religious attitude and spiritual health (p< 0.000) and between self-control and spiritual health (p<0/02)and regression analysis showed self-control is a good predictor for spiritual health. With attentionto these results, research hypothesizesBased on the existence of the significance relation among (Religious attitude, self-control and spiritual health)are approved and according to the role of religion and Religious components in theMental health people andIslamic society,emphasize them in the field of training can lot of help to Improve the mental health and Spiritual community.

Quran as a comprehensive source can be used for derivation of up to date management sciences methodologically and used them in managing of Islamic community and its organizations and systems. One of these systems is health system that given its role in developing and maintaining of communities’ physical and mental health, needs a management based on Islamic and Quran principles for achieving this goal. The aim of current study is the review of management concepts in Quran in axes of necessity of being managers, professional and ethical characteristics of manager and management duties based on planning, organizing, leadership, and controlling with approach to health system. Health system need to managers that in addition to general duties of management meet the health needs of Islamic community residents. In this community, faith, open-mindedness, certainty, and social commitment are the prerequisites of choosing managers for health care organizations managing. These managers should inspire management concepts from Quran and do their duties with considering the dignity of human being as the best creature of God, and with correct managing of these organizations give the health to the community residents as a recognized right.

Euthanasia phenomenon is one of the major and emerging events in medical sciences which today many issues have been raised about it. Its relation with theological and legal discussions and health issues caused the necessity for research in this area. This paper first explains the issue of euthanasia and assisted death then answers to this question: Are actions performed on dying person are euthanasia? Finally, it concludes that any form of euthanasia has serious drawbacks and it is forbidden in religious sources. Ending a human life by themselves or others is not acceptable from the perspective of Islam because of extreme dignity of manslaughter and importance of the self-preservation. While assisted death and euthanasia have substantive differences, there is not any intention of ending the life in assisted death. It provides proper conditions for a dying believer to better transition from this world to the Hereafter.