Abstract
Objective: To investigate the relationship between mental health and spiritual well-being among general and post-graduate dental students . Material and Methods: This is a cross-sectional, descriptive-analytical study conducted on 268 general and post-graduate dental students. Data collection tools included the Mental Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28: General Health Questionnaire) and the Spiritual Health Questionnaire. The data were analyzed by the SPSS version 25 using Independent Samples t-test, One-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient, Multiple linear regression with a significant level at 0.05. Results: The total score of the Spiritual Health Questionnaire was 71.48 ± 0.507 and the Mental Health Questionnaire was 40.31±0.65. There was a significant difference in the spiritual health status between the general and post-graduate students (p=0.009). Overall, there was a significant positive relationship between the students' spiritual health and mental health (p=0.045), although a significant relationship was evident between mental health and age of the students (p=0.019) . Conclusion: The spiritual health was high in the dental students and Kerman University of medical sciences residents. Also, there was a positive significant relationship between spiritual and mental health.
Highlights
One of the most challenging points in various dimensions of health is spiritual health
There was a significant difference in the spiritual health status between the general and post-graduate students (p=0.009)
The results demonstrated that the spiritual health status was significantly different between general dental students and residents (p=0.009), as the dental students had higher spiritual health (Table 2)
Summary
One of the most challenging points in various dimensions of health is spiritual health. World Health Organization (WHO) refers to four dimensions of physical, mental, social and spiritual health, but considers spiritual health as the most substantial dimension in human growth and development [1,2]. Spiritual health provides one's integrity and correlates the physical, mental, and social dimensions, and if disregarded, it leads to mental disturbances, depression. In 2002, experts from WHO stated that mental health is a fundamental and essential need to improve the quality of human life, leading to harmonious communication with others, ameliorating the individual and social environment, resolving individual inspirations and conflicts rationally. Mental health emphasizes the absence of mental disturbances and means the one's capability to adapt flexibly with various life conflicts, have a sense of selfworth, competitive capacity, and the authority to flourish potential abilities [5]
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