MEDICAL FIGH QUARTERLY
Year:2012 | Volume:4 | Issue:11-12|Papers Count:8

Background: The basis for success of Iranian Gnostics, poets and scientists have been moral edification, attention to origin and having specific goal from creation of human and creatures and they studied all phenomena of universe by divine attitude to find some instances of God. There is no surprise that such relationship was bilateral and according to promise of God to persons following up his ideology, he teach human the method of obtaining secrets of life, so that result of this relationship was growth of famous Iranian scientists including: Rhazes, Ahvazi, Avicenna, … and Jorjani. Thus the main goal of this research is to study the style of writing in original resources of traditional medicine.Method: To increase exactness of study, after preparing electronic databank version of traditional medicine’s books, we studied writing style of these books by searching the following key words: God, creator, magnificent, omnipotent, omniscient … and after encoding them, we performed content analysis of these words and related subjects.Findings: We faced with hundreds of monotheistic words and tens of small and great text related to monotheistic literature in Alhavi (by Rhazes), Kamel-al-Sanaah (by Ahvazi), and Canon of medicine (by Avicenna and Zakhireye Khwarazshahi (by Jorjani).Conclusions: This research shows that although all poets, Gnostics and scientists had studied nature according to their own attitude, but all of them have referred to common idea, which is the existence of God in the universe. Poets studied nature according to objective instances and beauties of nature, Gnostics considered world according to mental issues and scientists of natural sciences, studied nature according to human physiology and anatomy and relationship between human and nature. All of these scientists referred to beauty, magnanimity, discipline and specific goal in creation of universe and have written their valuable books by benefiting monotheistic literature.

In this research, survey health’s concept based on Islamic sources with method of subjective research and concept derivation. Health is body, sense, mental, social, Agle (knowledge & insight) and spirit. There aspects are equilibrium. Human is dominating over environment & life. Human is compatible with change of life. Human wants God. Finally concept of intellectual health is ultimately goal of health in human based on effect on body health in spiritual health. If body health caused to spiritual health is suitable. The ultimately of health is Qalbe Saleem.

Background and Aim: In Postmodern medicine, it is believed that health promotion is well achieved by considering historical, social, cultural and literary background of communities. Persian literature is considered as a rich source for literary points in health promotion especially in mental health. The Maulana Jalalluddin Mohammad Balkhi (1207 – 1273 AC) known as one of the bright stars of Persian literature which is abundant literature. Book of the Masnavi Manavi is written at the height of sophistication of Maulana life and contain very useful issusess in the area of mental and spiritual health. The purpose of the present study was to look for the feature of being in search of personality in mental health, as defined by World Health Organization (WHO), explicitly and implicitly expressed in Masnavi manavi.Material and Method: This is a comparative study with content analysis; poems related to the feature of being in search of personality were selected and analyzed in six books of Masnavi Manavi.Results: The results showed that the feature of being in search of personality in the Masnavi Manavi is similar with the human development. Mulavi believes that human being can reach to the top level of personality only if he considers certain necessities and prerequisites including Talab (demand), and journey from pure profane life to human life.Conclusion: the study showed that this book is brimful of new and beautiful subjects in the field of mental and spiritual health. Especially in being in search of personality character. These issues are useful for solving mental problems, and prevention and promotion of mental health in the community.

This research examines the efficacy of group spiritual intervention on improving quality of life in a group of mothers with cancerous children. Participants are twelve mothers who had been referred in Emam Hossein hospital at Tehran. WHO's quality of life brief specific questionnaire was used as instrument. Result of repeated – measure analysis indicated that spiritual intervention improves mental health and community relations of mothers, but it has not impact on their physical and environmental health. Based on data spiritual intervention improves quality of life in mothers of children with cancer.

Around the world due to the increasing number of elderly people, mental disorders such as dementia and Alzheimer’s disease have also increased. 7 out of 10 Alzheimer's patients are cared at their homes. Thus, health care systems have been regarded to economic, family and care problems subsequent care of them. Chronic stress due to the continued care of these patients, have been threatened the physical and mental health of caregivers. Spiritual intelligence as the basis of individual beliefs, play an essential role in the promotion and provision of mental health. Therefore, this study aimed to determine correlation between self -efficacy and spiritual intelligence of family caregivers was done.This descriptive – correlation study was conducted with 70 caregivers of Alzheimer's Association, with continuous sampling. Questionnaires were the profile demographics, self - efficiency and spiritual intelligence scales. Mean age of caregivers were 78.52±72.13 years and the majority (6.78%) women, (4.71%) married, (8.34%) diploma, (60%) daughter of patients and (50%) were housewives. Mean of self -efficacy were 13.63±91.9 (85-17) as (4.71%) were at high level of self-efficacy. Mean of spiritual intelligence was 35.59±06.17 (96-0) as majority of caregivers (%6.58) were at intermediate level. Results showed a significant correlation between self-efficacy and spiritual intelligence of caregivers (p=0.001).

According to the importance and necessity of psychological factors in career and professional activities and for evaluate the relationship between moral distress and burnout and mental health in nurses 300 female nurses working in public and private hospitals in Yazd, Completed survey questionnaires. The result showed that the nurses' moral distress in private hospitals is higher (P>0.01) and nurses' burnout in public hospitals is more (P>0.01). There is not relationship among nurses' Moral distress and burnout but there is a significant positive relationship between moral distress and self-esteem and their mental health (P>0.01), also there is a significant positive relationship between nurses' dimensions of burnout and dimensions mental health (P>0.01); also emotional and psychological burnout dimension is effective in nurses' mental health(P>0.01); According to the results obtained It is suggested that hospital administrators creates support systems to detect and prevent environment increasing nurses' moral distress and burnout and reduce nurses' mental health.