Spiritual Intelligence and Self-efficacy: An attempt to Establish a Relationship among Hospitalized Patients Suffering from Cancer in Tehran University of Medical Sciences' Hospitals of Iran

Spiritual intelligence is considered as a higher dimension of intelligence that activates the qualities and capabilities of individual beliefs in various fields, especially the individuals' capacity to deal with the difficulties and adapting to changes. However, self-efficacy facilitates the improvement of health in cancer patients. This study was carried out to identify the spiritual intelligence relationship with self-efficacy on 200 cancer patients by using simple random sampling method. The study was based on a series of a questionnaire on demographic information, the spiritual intelligence. The results showed that there is a statistically significant and direct relationship between spiritual intelligence and self-efficacy in patients with cancer exist. It suggests that by paying attention towards spiritual intelligence and augmentation of such factors in those patients an improvement in health could be expected.