Medicine and Spiritual Cultivation
Year:2016 | Volume:25 | Issue:2|Papers Count:8

Background: Considering the physiological difference between an aged and young people in the mouth and the growing increase of the aged population and reference of these patients to the dentistry clinics, having sufficient information to make a proper handling and a suitable treatment is necessary.Methods: This research was done in cross sectional method on 400 samples of the dentists in the 53rd International Congress of Iranian Dental Association. The method of sampling was in form of constant proceeding. The method of completion of questionnaire in the presence of project administrator was used. It included: 10 Questions related to the individual characteristics, dentists’ knowledge 10 questions, dentists’ attitudes 11 sentences in multiple choice form. The score scale of each attitude question was determined between 0-3. The role of individual factors in connection with the rate of knowledge and attitude was analyzed by using the Regression tests.Results: Of the 400 dentists participating, 48.7% were women and 51.3% were men, and their age was (32.6±2.4) year. Based on the average of knowledge the score obtained from the research is (2.71±1.8), 88.5% had a weak knowledge, 11.5% an average knowledge and, un-fortunately, they did not have a good knowledge. Based on the average score of attitude obtained is (22.3±3.4), 39.7% had a positive attitude, 58% had a relatively positive attitude, the whole positive number was 97.8%, and 2.2% had a negative attitude. there was no significant relationship between the related factors and the rate of dentist's knowledge and attitudes.Conclusion: As the dentists’ knowledge of geriatrics dentistry is weak. On the other hand, the dentists’ attitude of geriatrics dentistry is relatively positive, so the design of course unit credits and implementing suitable educational courses in student period and also holding retraining and conferences on geriatrics dentistry after graduation are all effective.

Background: Students are educated and influential persons in the communities and it is necessary to have suitable quality of life, so this study was done in order to assessing quality of life and related factors in students at Neyshabur University of medical sciences.Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed among all students of Neyshabur University of medical sciences (220 persons) in 2012. For evaluating quality of life we used the brief version of the WHO's QOL scale (WHOQOL-BREF) in this study. Frequency, percentage, range, mean and standard deviation were used for descriptive statistics. Independent t-test, paired t-test, ANOVA and logistic regression model were used in SPSS16 software to analyze the data.Results: 64.6% of students were females and 35.4% were males. The mean age of them was 20.78±1.46. The total mean score of students’ quality of life was 13.52±1.57. In four dimensions of quality of life, the lowest mean score was observed in Psychological health domain (12.12±1.48) and the highest was observed in Physical health domain (15.12±2.42). Location was significantly associated with social relationship domain (p=0.031) and overall quality of life (p=0.003) of students.Conclusion: The findings of this study shown that quality of life of surveyed’ students wasn’t high and the most effective variable was location. So it is necessary to implement appropriate interventions by neyshabur university leaderships in order to remove problems of students that they live in dormitory.

Background: The people give attention to spirituality and religion during their sickness time over than other time. Prayer is the spirituality and religious source common that patients using it. When person face to danger about life, he /she resort to prayer that is linkage between he/she and God. This research has performed to prayer experiences description aim in cancer patient's life that hospitalization under chemotherapy. Knowledge of prayer experiences in life of this patients help us obtain deep recognition about prayer effect on this various patient's life aspect and try to increasing their life quality.Methods: This research design of qualitative (phenomenology) one. Sampling was carried out on a purpose – based approach and was continued until saturation of the data occurred. Collected Information is by interview without structure with 12 cancer patients and hospitalized under chemotherapy.Results: Obtained interviews analyzed. 6 main concepts obtained that including worship and adoration, wanting aid, calm, spirituality reflection against cancer diagnosis, believes and approaches and spirituality support.Conclusion: This research results showed that resort prayer can effect on cancer patient life quality various aspects that hospitalized under chemotherapy. So, resolving spirituality and religious needs of these patients are tasks nurses spirituality caring of these patients.

Background: The role of socioeconomic factors on child health is estimated more than 50% and the impact of parents’ socioeconomic status on child health is very important thus, in this paper, the effects of parent's socioeconomic status on child health were analyzed in Tehran.Methods: The statistical population consists of 85184 member of the children younger than 1 year old of Tehran in 2014. The sample size was determined by Cochran formula and selected 400 records through random method from 10 health centers of Tehran. Data were gathered from health care records (HCRs) by questionnaire. Models were estimated by Probit, Probit with endogenous variable and Ordered Probit in STATA software.Results: The result shown that increasing father's and mother's education increases the probability of children’s health by 2.6 and 3.5 percent respectively. Mothers' employment decreases the child health status as 6.7 percent and possibility of twin children's health was 8.97 percent less than other children. Also results for underweight children shown that increasing father's and mother's education decreases the possibility of children’s underweight by 0.9 and 1.5 per-cent respectively and mothers' employment increases the possibility of children’s underweight by 4 percent.Conclusion: Mothers' employment has a negative effect on children's health; i.e. mothers' employment increases the possibility of underweight due to children's malnutrition. Also, father's and mother’s education have positive effect and family size and being twin have negative effect on children's health.

Background: Hospitals are as the most expensive health care centers, and they take most of the health budget, on the other hand they have largest number of educated personnel. There-fore, considering variables that affecting the performance of the hospitals employees is important. This study has been designed and implemented to determine The Relationship be-tween "strategic alignment and "employee engagement" of HashemiNejad Hospital in Tehran.Methods: This Research is a correlation study. Population included 424 staff of nursing, administrative (human resource and finance) as well as auxiliary and paramedical, which a sample size of 202 was calculated. Samples selected randomly in proportion to the number of people in each class. A questionnaire was applied to collect data. Finally Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics including tables, comparative analysis, Pearson correlation, and Multiple Regression.Results: Based on results Mean ± SD scores for the strategic alignment 31.90±4.47 from 40 and Mean ± SD score for employee engagement 54.19±7.34 of 70 was calculated. The findings of liner regression analysis indicated that strategic alignment can be a predictor of employee engagement (P-value=0.01, r=0.64).Conclusion: Strategic alignment is one of the effective factors in Employee engagement. Goal setting according to demographic and environmental conditions, prepare strategies to guide employees for achieve the goals, collaborative goal setting and accurate and clear information to employees are as effective methods for improving strategic alignment and then employee engagement.