Spiritual intelligence and its related factors in patients with ischemic heart disease

AuthorAzam Noori Saeed
AuthorArsalan Salari
AuthorAli Noori Saeed
AuthorFateme Moadab
AuthorLeila Rouhi Balasi
Issued Date2014-12-31
AbstractBackground and Purpose: Diagnosing coronary artery disease can cause considerable impairment in patients' mental health.On the one hand, psychological factors play an important role in the development and progression of heart disease. Therefore,identifying the factors affecting the patient's ability to adapt such as spiritual intelligence (SI) is significant. The study aims todetermine the status of spiritual intelligence and its related factors in patients suffering from ischemic heart disease.Methods: This study community consists of the patients with ischemic heart disease hospitalized in cardiac ward ofDr.Heshmat Hospital; 186 patients were selected by accessible sampling method. Data were collected by spiritual intelligence29-item questionnaire and analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics (t-test, ANOVA and Pearson).Results: In this study, the majority of the samples were in the age range of 45-64 years old (68/8%), men (67/2%), married(99/5 %), with elementary education level (51/1%) and housewives (29%). The results implied that more than 90% of thepatients had high spiritual intelligence. Also based on the statistical analysis, no significant association has been observedbetween the demographic variable and spiritual intelligence.Conclusion: It seems that high spiritual intelligence in the community resulted from stress induced illness leading to theirgreater tendency to spirituality. In general, according to the psychological literature, spiritual intelligence can promote thepatients' mental and physical health. Then, paying attention to spiritual intelligence in these patients seems to be critical.
DOIhttps://doi.org/
KeywordSpiritual intelligence
KeywordCoronary artery disease
PublisherBrieflands
TitleSpiritual intelligence and its related factors in patients with ischemic heart disease
TypeResearch Article
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