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

Azam Noori Saeed; Arsalan Salari; Ali Noori Saeed; Fateme Moadab; Leila Rouhi Balasi

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

Author(s):

Azam Noori Saeed¹,

Arsalan Salari²,

Ali Noori Saeed³,

Fateme Moadab⁴,

Leila Rouhi Balasi^4,*

1Department of Psychology, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran

2Department of Cardiology, Guilan Interventional Cardiovascular Research Center, Heshmat Hospital, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran

3Department of Islamic Studies, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran

4Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, Guilan Interventional Cardiovascular Research Center, Heshmat Hospital, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran

Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Sciences:Vol. 1, issue 3; 49-54

Published online:Mar 03, 2015

Article type:Research Article

Received:Oct 04, 2014

Accepted:Oct 15, 2014

How to Cite:Azam Noori Saeed, Arsalan Salari, Ali Noori Saeed, Fateme Moadab, Leila Rouhi Balasi, Spiritual intelligence and its related factors in patients with ischemic heart disease.J Nurs Midwifery Sci.2015;1(3):e141398.

Abstract

Background 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 to
determine 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 of
Dr.Heshmat Hospital; 186 patients were selected by accessible sampling method. Data were collected by spiritual intelligence
29-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 the
patients had high spiritual intelligence. Also based on the statistical analysis, no significant association has been observed
between the demographic variable and spiritual intelligence.
Conclusion: It seems that high spiritual intelligence in the community resulted from stress induced illness leading to their
greater tendency to spirituality. In general, according to the psychological literature, spiritual intelligence can promote the
patients' mental and physical health. Then, paying attention to spiritual intelligence in these patients seems to be critical.

Keywords

Spiritual intelligence

Coronary artery disease

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