فهرست مطالب

Health, Spirituality and Medical Ethics
Volume:1 Issue: 1, Mar 2014

  • تاریخ انتشار: 1393/02/18
  • تعداد عناوین: 6
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  • Akram Heidari *, Zahra Ahmadpour, Zahra Gharehboughlou Pages 2-8
    Background And Objectives
    The objective of this study was to determine and compare the general levels of awareness of patient’s rights among the patients and nurses in training hospitals in Qom province.
    Methods
    In a descriptive analytical study, 150 nurses and 200 hospitalized patients were asked about patient’s rights in all public hospitals in Qom. Data were collected using questionnaires and analyzed by SPSS. A p -value of
    Results
    The nurses’ total awareness score was significantly higher than the patients’ total awareness score. No significant association was found between the patients’ total awareness and age, gender, educational status, marital status, living place or bedtime. The nurses’ total awareness showed no significant difference with respect to age, marital status and work history. The female nurses’ total score was significantly higher than the male nurses’ total score.
    Conclusion
    These results suggest that increasing awareness especially among patients is needed, if awareness and practices regarding patient’s rights should be improved.
    Keywords: Patient rights, nurses, patients, awareness, bioethics
  • Zahra Alipour *, Narges Eskandari, Hoda Ahmari Tehran, Seyed Kamal Eshagh Hossaini, Sareh Sangi Pages 9-16
    Background And Objectives
    There are studies that support music and singing as appropriate developmental care for premature infants, thus, we conducted this study to investigate the physiological and behavioral responses of premature infants to Quran recitation, lullaby music and silence.
    Methods
    In a randomized controlled trial (2011-2012),120 premature infants in the Neonatal Unit (NNU) at Izadi Hospital, were randomly assigned to experimental (holy Quran recitation, lullaby music and silence) and control groups. The four groups were surveyed for physiological responses including, oxygen saturation, respiratory rate and heart rate and behavioral states. The data were analyzed using SPSS-PC software and quantitative tests.
    Results
    66females and 54 male infants with gestational age 28- 36 weeks entered into the study. The fourgroupswere not significantly different in terms of demographic variables (P>0.05). The comparisonofchangesinthe infant’s responsesintheendof the intervention comparedtothebase lines, showedno statistically significant differencesbetweengroups(P>0.05). Repeated measures ANOVA and Friedman test did notindicate any significant differences in the mean ofresponseswithinanyof the four groups during the courseof study (P>0.05).
    Conclusion
    Although fluctuations were observed in the mean of physiological responses and behavioral states in premature infants who listened to the recitation of the holy Quran and lullaby music, but these fluctuations were not significant. Findings of this study demonstrated that the preterm infants did not display any adverse reactions to the carefully designed acoustic intervention.
    Keywords: Complementary Therapy, Holly Quran recitation, Music Therapy, physiological, behavioral response, premature infants
  • Seyyed Hassan Adeli *, Akram Heidari, Parsi Pouya, Alireza Bagheri, Hossein Amir Shokravi, Fatemeh Hosseinzadeh Pages 17-28
    Background And Objectives
    Medical ethics has a long history worldwide; although it is a new scientific discipline. Also, it is not just for a specific single group or discipline in a treatment team; it is the entire medical community who benefits from it. Given the importance of this issue, this study examined the viewpoints of the specialist physicians in Qom province on the most common issues in medical ethics, with the hope to take a step forward through identifying common problems and solving them.
    Methods
    This descriptive study used the Delphi Method in which the views of the specialist physicians on the medical ethics were analyzed through two questionnaires. The first questionnaire contained some open questions, and the second one was designed to rank and rate the titles of medical ethics problems in terms of their prevalence.
    Results
    The most common problems in medical ethics derived from the first questionnaire based on the order of priority were: secrecy, doctor-patient relationship, justice, telling the truth, privacy, informed consent, relationship with colleagues, patient's participation in treatment methods, dealing with improper treatment and interaction between the physician and treatment authorities.
    Conclusion
    By identifying the common and more important problems based on the viewpoints of the specialist physicians in Qom province, it seems necessary to pay more attention on training in order to solve these problems.
    Keywords: Medical ethics, Informed consent, Justice, Privacy
  • Marziye Raisi, Hoda Ahmari Tehran *, Saeede Heidari, Nahid Mehran Pages 23-29
    Background And Objectives
    Spiritual intelligence is a kind of ultimate intelligence that shows the conceptual and valuable issues and to solve the problems associated with it. the foundation of individual beliefs can have important role in various fields especially in the promotion and provision of psychic health . Thus, the aim of this study was to survey the rate of spiritual intelligence among the students of Medical Faculty of Qom University of Medical Sciences and the relation between this issue and other demographic features.
    Methods
    In this descriptive cross-sectional study, 353 nursing, midwifery and medicine students participated in the census method.
    The questionnaire used included spiritual intelligence and demographic features. We use statistical – descriptive and deductive tests and SPSS software for data analysis in the significant and valuable levels .
    Results
    The mean and standard deviation of the students’ spiritual intelligence score was 152.93±18.83 from 210 .
    Also, the results showed that spiritual intelligence score did not have any significant statistical relationship with age , location , marital status , university admission and parents’ occupationand education ( p>0.05 ) .
    But it was observed that there was a significant relationship between spiritual intelligence and mother’s education on the student’s average coarse score ( p
    Conclusion
    The students of nursing, midwifery and medicine in the Medical Faculty of Qom University of Medical Sciences had relatively high spiritual intelligence that can help them to improve and maintain their psychic health .
    Keywords: Spiritual intelligence, spirituality, students
  • Mohammad Reza Heidari *, Reza Norouzadeh, Mohammad Abbasi Pages 30-36
    Background And Objectives
    Sleep is a sign of the greatness of God. In this article sleep is described from Quran and modern health sciences.
    Methods
    This is a qualitative systematic review. Data were gathered from the Quran, related Islamic narratives and literatures. Words that were searched included sleep,sleep stages, Subaat, Hojoo, Ruqood, Nu’ass, Sinah.
    Results
    The results showed that the Arabic words in the Quran about sleep are Sinah, Nu’ass, Hojoo, Ruqood and Subaa. These descriptions about sleep from Quran perspective are consistent with different sleep stages that have been recognized by modern medicine.
    Conclusion
    The Quran and Hadith have described about the types of sleep and the importance and sleeping patterns. In Quran perspective, human is a creature that needs light at day and darkness at night and sleep is an invisible blessing that merciful God gives peace and welfare to his creatures.
    Keywords: Quran, Sleep, Islam, Sleep Stages
  • Ahmad Reza Izadi, Ali Ebrazeh *, Jahangir Drikvand, Marziyeh Pouladchang Pages 37-44
    Background And Objectives
    Enjoining good and forbidding (EGFE) evil are two fundamental topics in Islam. Many verses and narratives underscore the social, religious and political duties implied by enjoining good and forbidding evil. After all, these two divine treasures have been neglected because of indulgence and forgetfulness. The prime reason for this negligence seems to be the obliviousness of employees in different organizations throughout the country. The purpose of this study is to assess a hospital employee's knowledge of enjoining good and forbidding evil.
    Methods
    This cross-sectional analytic descriptive study was done in a hospital of Isfahan province in 2012. The data were collected from the employed staff of the hospital in all the organizational ranks. No sampling was done in this census study and the data were elicited from all the members of the population. The data collection instrument was a 28-item questionnaire whose validity and reliability were confirmed. The data were analyzed using SPSS 16 software.
    Results
    In the current study, 50.9% of the participants were men and 49.1% were women. The percentage scores of the staff knowledge of the bounden duties of EFGE were 72%; effects of EFGE 73%; moralities of EFGE 85%; virtue examples 78%; and evil examples 72%. The overall knowledge of EFGE turned out to be 76%. There was a meaningful difference between the moral dimension in men and women as the women’s knowledge was higher (P=0.045). Based on the analytical results of analysis of variance (ANOVA) test, there was no meaningful difference between the scores of the EFGE with demographic variables (P> 0.05).
    Conclusion
    The results indicated that the knowledge of the hospital staff of enjoining good and forbidding evil was satisfactory. Requisite training of the knowledge of enjoining good and forbidding evil, its effects, and the evil examples could result in the promotion of their knowledge score.
    Keywords: Enjoining good, forbidding evil, Knowledge, Hospital employee