جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « superstitions » در نشریات گروه « پزشکی »

 Despite the introduction of new medical and therapeutic methods in the Qajar period's medical history, traditional medicine continued to live alongside it, and various groups in this period dealt with medical and therapeutic matters. One of these groups active in health and treatment provided medical services based on prayer, remembrance, spells, and superstitions. This study aims to investigate the medical and therapeutic function of various types of prayers and dhikr in the Qajar period. In this regard, this study seeks to answer the following question: To what extent and in what form was the role of supplication and dhikr in the folk medicine of the Qajar period?

 This research's statistical population includes historical books, medical history, and travelogues of the Qajar period. This research is based on the descriptive-analytical method and by collecting research files from library sources.

 Therapeutic methods based on the use of prayer and dhikr have been common in Qajar medicine, and prayers and dhikr have been used to treat, cure and even prevent various infectious and non-communicable diseases. This has not been limited to the common class but has also been used among courtiers and property classes.

 This study shows that during the Qajar period, prayer writers were one of the traditional treatment groups. They used various prayer and remembrance methods to treat various mental and physical ailments. And this group was also accepted by the general public. Reasons for their acceptance include poverty, lack of government medical services, the infancy of modern medical practices, lack of trust in Western physicians, worldviews, and people's destiny. Of course, the scope of activities and treatment methods of prayer writers and supplicants are harmed, such as the spread of infectious and dangerous diseases due to gathering in religious and respected places, not paying attention to health orders due to destiny, the prevalence of determinism. They were wasting people's money by deceiving sellers of spells.

One of the components of every culture is beliefs. Some of these beliefs are based on actual proven and solid foundation. Some of them are superstitions which are baseless and have been accepted by people. The purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of belief in superstitions and its related factors among the students of Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences. This was a study with mixed method design which was a combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods. The quantitative section was cross-sectional and the qualitative part of the study included views of the experts on the psychological, social, religious and political fields. In this study we used a valid and reliable researcher-made superstition questionnaire. The questionnaire had 2 parts: belief in superstitions and tendency to superstition. We used stratified random sampling method and the sample size was estimated to be 386 students according to Cochran's formula. Data were entered into SPSS-20 software and analyzed by ANOA and chi-square test. In this study 184(54%) students were male and 157 (46%) were female with the mean age of 20.26 ± 1.60 years. 309 students (90.6%) lived in urban areas, 54 (15.8%) had a tendency to superstition, 46 (13.5%) had high level and 122 (35.8%) had low level of superstitious beliefs. In this study, there was a significant relationship between gender (P=0.037) and age (p<0.001) with belief in superstitions. In addition, there was a significant relationship between residential area with tendency to superstition and belief in superstitions (p<0.001), while, there was no significant relationship between gender and tendency to superstition (P=0.861). Considering the high frequency rate (64.2%) of belief in superstitions among the students as future community makers, comprehensive planning to decrease belief in superstition by means of various systems, such as universities, television and other relevant organizations, is essential.