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Background and Objectives: Monotheistic integrated psychotherapy is regarded as a multidimensional and comprehensive therapy recommended for the treatment of abnormal behaviors, mood and anxiety, personality, and drug use disorders. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of monotheistic integrated psychotherapy on the resilience, anxiety, and depression levels among prisoners. Methods: This quasi-experimental study was of pretest-posttest control group design. The study included 80 male prisoners aged 20-40 years old who were detained in Lahijan, Iran in 2015 due to street fighting. The subjects were randomly divided into experimental and control groups (n=40). The experimental group was subjected to the monotheistic integrated psychotherapy, while the control group did not receive such training. Resilience Inventory, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, and the Beck Depression Inventory were used to measure the study variables, before and after the intervention. Results: The analysis of covariance showed a significant difference in terms of the means of dependent variables within two experimental and control groups (P<0. 0001). According to the results, monotheistic integrated psychotherapy leads to the increase of resilience levels followed by reduction in anxiety and depression levels among prisoners. Conclusion: The findings indicate the effect of monotheistic integrated psychotherapy on the resilience, anxiety and depression levels among prisoners. Therefore, with the implementation of monotheistic integrated psychotherapy in a wider context, social harm and crimes would reduce leading to the increase of mental and physical health among prisoners.

Background and Objectives: Patience and wisdom are highly respected moral virtues in Islamic culture. The former (patience) is of utmost importance in the Islamic religion and the latter (wisdom) is one of the six basic virtues both in the recent classification of positive psychologists and Islamic-Iranian culture. These moral virtues are considered important in individuals’ wellbeing and can have significant social and personal consequences on the mental health of people. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between personality traits and the virtue of wisdom with regard to the mediating role of patience. Methods: A total of 440 BSc students studying at Shiraz University participated in the present study. They included 281 females and 159 males selected through random cluster sampling method. The participants were asked to complete the Self-Assessed Wisdom Scale (Webster), Big five personality questionnaire (Goldberg), and patience Scale (Khormaei et al). Results: The results of structural equation modeling showed that the data fitted the model. Moreover, the findings indicated that agreeableness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism could indirectly predict wisdom through the mediating role of patience. Conclusion: On the basis of the results, it could be concluded that personality traits could improve wisdom in students through the mediating role of patience. Considering the fact that patience can be taught, it is recommended that efforts should be dedicated to teaching moral virtues to students to bring wisdom to young people.

Background and Objectives: Divorce is a stressful life event both for parents and children. Nowadays, an increase in the divorce rate is one of the major problems and concerns in many countries of the world, especially in Iran. Divorce can be a deterrent factor in the personal growth and development of the children from broken families. This study aimed to develop a group-counseling model based on spirituality to boost psychological well-being in girls from divorced families. Methods: This experimental study was conducted on a total of 20 girls from divorced families using pretest-posttest control group design. The study population were selected through convenience sampling technique. The subjects were divided into two groups of experimental (n=10) and control groups (n=10). Those in the experimental group were taught spiritual issue in 8 sessions (2 h per session) in a form of group counseling model. The well-being of the participants was assessed by the 48-item Ryff’ s Psychological Well-being Questionnaire. The obtained data were analyzed by ANCOVA. Results: The results showed that spiritual group counseling could significantly increase the psychological wellbeing of girls from divorced families (p<0. 05). Conclusion: The results of this study indicated that spiritual therapy can be used to increase the psychological well-being of girls from divorced families.

Background and Objectives: Compassion has been identified as an essential element of nursing. The present study aimed to determine the psychometric properties of compassion to others scale and introduce a suitable measurement scale for the researchers in the field of psychological health. Methods: This study was conducted on a total of 213 nurses in order to investigate the psychometric properties of compassion to others scale based on multistage sampling method. The data were analyzed using LISREL (version 8) and SSPS (version 18) software. Results: The factor structure of compassion to others scale was confirmed according to the results of Confirmatory Factor Analysis in Iranian nurses. Compassion to others scale had a negative and significant correlation with the fear of compassion, anxiety, depression, and stress, burnout, as well as unhealthy cognitive emotion regulation skills, and also a positive and significant correlation with healthy cognitive emotion regulation skills (P<0. 05). Furthermore, Cronbach’ s alpha coefficient, for the whole scale and factors, including kindness, indifference, common humanity, separation, mindfulness, and disengagement, were obtained as 0. 92, 0. 81, 0. 61, 0. 83, 0. 78, 0. 78, and 0. 76, respectively. Conclusion: In this study, the psychometric properties of Iranian version of compassion to others scale were confirmed. Therefore, this scale was proposed to measure the level of compassion to others in nurses.

Background and Objectives: Chronic renal failure is a health problem that affects the patient's life in alternative renal therapies, including hemodialysis. Hemodialysis is a stressful process and the most important factor causing tension in these patients is a reduction in hope for life. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the role of trust in God and resilience in the hope for life of hemodialysis patients. Methods: The statistical population of the present descriptive correlational study consisted of 227 hemodialysis patients in Khatamolanbia (n=107) and Ali-ibn Abi Talib (n=120) hospitals in Zahedan, Iran, during the first three months of 2018. Based on Morgan table, 140 cases were selected through the convenience sampling method. The data were collected using Trust in God Questionnaire by Bolhari et al., Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, and Hope Scale by Snyder and Anderson. Finally, the data were analyzed by SPSS software (version 22) and Pearson’ s correlation coefficient to test the hypotheses and multiple regression were utilized. P-value was considered statistically significant in the present study (P<0. 01). Results: According to the obtained results, the hope for life showed a positive and significant correlation with trust in God and resilience in hemodialysis patients. Furthermore, the resilience and trust in God predicted the hope for life of hemodialysis patients. Conclusion: The results of the present study revealed the importance of trust in God and resilience in the hope for life of hemodialysis patients in the process of treatment improvement.

Background and Objectives: Postpartum depression is a disorder affecting individuals’ social ability accompanied by dangerous complications in the mother, neonate, and the family of the patient. This study aimed to investigate the relationship of postpartum depression with spiritual well-being and some demographic variables among women referring to health care centers, Qom, Iran. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 196 eligible women referring to health care centers affiliated to Qom University of Medical Sciences during 2017. Participants were selected through a convenience sampling technique. Spiritual well-being and postpartum depression of the participants were measured through Spiritual Health Questionnaire and Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, respectively. The data analysis was performed using the SPSS software through Pearson correlation coefficient test, one-way ANOVA test, and independent t-test. Results: The mean age of individuals was 28. 58± 5. 97. The postpartum depression score above 12 was among 20 women (10. 2%). Postpartum depression had a significant relationship with the mean score of spiritual well-being as well as cognitive/emotional and behavioral dimensions. There was a significantly negative correlation between spiritual well-being and postpartum depression among women (r=-0. 52, P<0. 001). Moreover, postpartum depression significantly correlated with the type of delivery, abortion history, job status, and educational level of the investigated women. Conclusion: According to the obtained results of the study, the participants had a desirable level of spiritual well-being, and a higher score in spiritual well-being led to a lower postpartum depression score.

Background and Objectives: Spiritual health has a positive effect on the organizational behavior of healthcare personnel with patients as well as organizational productivity. Accordingly, the present study aimed to investigate the relationship between spiritual health and job performance of operating room personnel working in the academic hospitals of Qom, Iran, during 2017-2018. Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out on a total of 95 operating room personnel of the teaching centers of Qom. Spiritual health was evaluated through a standard and native questionnaire. Furthermore, the questionnaire of Paterson's occupational performance was used as another study tool. Results: The participants’ mean scores of age and work experience were 33. 05± 7 and 9± 8 years, respectively. The mean score of job performance was reported as 63± 11. On the other hand, the mean score of spiritual health was estimated at 205± 22. The results of the data analysis showed that there were no significant differences in spiritual health and job performance scores based on demographic variables (P>0. 05). The differences between Pearson's correlation coefficients of job performance, as well as spiritual health, and the two related subsets (i. e., cognitive/emotional and behavioral components) were statistically significant (P<0. 01). Conclusion: Considering the relationship between personnel's spiritual health and job performance, it is possible to improve the factors related to the effectiveness of organizational behavior by conducting management interventions and enhancing an individual's spiritual health. It is recommended to pay more attention to spirituality in organizations and conduct similar studies in other provinces of Iran.

Background and Objectives: Anxiety in pregnancy can develop into depression and stress, thereby negatively affecting labor by leading to prolonged labor, preterm labor, low birth weight, and unplanned cesarean section. Quran therapy with a slow and harmonious tempo can reduce stress hormones and activate natural endorphins (serotonin). Regarding this, the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of listening to Quran recitation on anxiety level. Methods: This quasi-experimental study was conducted on 32 primipara pregnant women. The study population was divided into two groups, intervention (n=16) and control (n=16). The intervention group was exposed to 15 min of Surah Ar-Rahman recitation using audio. Quran in mp3three times a week for four consecutive weeks. Results: The results revealed no significant difference between the study groups. However, after the intervention, the mean scores of anxiety and total Hamilton Rating Scale in the intervention group were significantly lower than those in the control group. Conclusion: The findings of the study demonstrated that Quran can significantly decrease anxiety level in pregnant women.