Investigating The Relationship Between Spiritual Intelligence and Emotional Intelligence and The Level of Caregivers’ Burden of Diabetic Patients Download PDF

Background and purpose: A common metabolic disorder which leaves devastating impacts on various body organs is known as Diabetes Mellitus. The effects of the chronic disease not only disrupt the lives of patients, but also those who look after them. The caregivers' ability to handle such a tough situation is subjected to many personality factors itself. Spiritual intelligence and emotional intelligence could be considered as two significant factors here. Spiritual intelligence involves the highest level of growth in different cognitive, ethical, emotional and interpersonal areas. It helps the individual to coordinate with the surrounding phenomena and achieve internal and external integrity. Those individuals who use their emotional intelligence enjoy more compatibility with their surroundings. They could display a higher self-esteem and enjoy self-awareness. The main purpose of this paper is to determine the links between spiritual and emotional intelligence and the scale of tolerance caregivers are ready to offer to a family member who is suffering from the diabetes. Method: In this descriptive correlation study; the statistical population of this study included all family caregivers of diabetic patients referred to diabetes clinics affiliated to Hamedan University of Medical Sciences in the year 2017 who were eligible to enter this study. The sample size was 129 people using the Cochran formula. Information about the theoretical part of this research was collected by the means of a library method and appropriate databases as well as previous studies related to this research. The field information of this study was also obtained through the distribution of the King's Caregiver Burden Inventory (CBI), Petrides and Furnham Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire, and the Guest and Novak Caregiver burden Inventory. The type of variables was qualitative and quantitative. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. Statistical software SPSS version 20 was used.. Findings: The score of caregivers ’burden indicated a significant relationship with spiritual intelligence and emotional intelligence scores so that by increasing one unit in the burden score of caregivers, spiritual intelligence score and emotional intelligence score will increase up to 0.236 and 0.182, respectively. The calculations showed that there is no correlation between physical burden and emotional burden components of caregivers with none of the components of spiritual intelligence. Also, there is no correlation between physical burden and emotional burden of the component of caregivers’ burden with none of the components of spiritual intelligence. Conclusion: The findings of this study showed the relationship between spiritual intelligence and emotional intelligence with the degree of tolerance of carers of family members of diabetic patients.