The purpose of the present study was to explore nurses' perception about spirituality and spiritual care. A qualitative content analysis approach was conducted on 20 registered nurses interviewed using unstructured strategy in 2009. Three themes emerged from the data analysis: 1) "meaning and purpose of work and life" including 'spiritualistic view to profession', 'commitment and professional r...

This review discusses the relationships between religion, spirituality, and psychosis. Based on the DSM-IV, we comment on the concept of spiritual and religious problems, which, although they may seem to be psychotic episodes, are actually manifestations of nonpathological spiritual and religious experiences. Studies reporting that hallucinations also occur in the nonclinical population and thu...

background and aim: there is a controversy about cochlear implant usefulness for users since they do not develop speech and language with equal quality. many researchers by controlling demographic and medical variables in this population suggested the contribution of neuro­cognitive factors such as working memory to this variation. the aim of this study was to com­pare working memory capacity b...

Risk perception and communication research in IT security has largely relied on studies addressing specific risks or threats and investigating how users assess or react to these. This approach offered valuable insights for the design of countermeasures against specific threats, such as phishing warnings or anti-virus protection. However, for the deployment of new and better IT security technolo...

background and purpose: spirituality is a complex and multidimensional concept that has cognitive, experiential, and behavioral aspects. according to studies many patients believe that religion and spirituality play important roles in their lives. usually they expect such considerations to be taken into account by physicians. the aim of this study was to investigate the viewpoints of physicians...

in heidegger’s thought god is appeared in three main forms: existence, sacred idea, and the final god. the existence, is apprehended with an internal experience; and the sacred will discovered by confronting with an art work which is exhaustive; but the final god, needs to eager expectancy, the god whose absence is expressed in the verses of poets. so the existence, art works and god's abs...

The emerging of the new generation applications like videoconference and the increasing in the demand of QoS services have enforced the need of new service models. As in the most new applications the user can perceives the level of quality a service is provided, data communication services are currently evolving towards more personalized ones. A direct consequence of this trend is the necessity...

intelligence, spirituality and, consequently, spiritual intelligence (sq) have different definitions. intelligence means the abilities of the individual, which, based on the value system, is used for problem solving and adaptation to the environment. spirituality follows transcendental rules, to improve the infra-ego to the level of ego and improving the ego to the level of ultra-ego, as well a...