فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

During recent decades, research in Iran in the area of the Quran and medical science has been seriously engagedin. With respect to the tendency toward spirituality and alternative medicine, we tried to find other aspects of the influence of theQuran.Objectives: This study aimed to determine the effect of vocalizations of the Holy Quran with and without translation on the consequencesof pregnancy (the prevalence of preterm delivery, caesarean delivery, and neonatal anthropometric indices) in womenadmitted to health care centers in Urmia, Iran.Materials and Methods: This was a three-armed parallel-group randomized clinical trial in which 168 pregnant women (25-28weeks) in their first and second pregnancies were divided into three groups of 56 (Holy Quran with translation, Holy Quran withouttranslation, and control group) by randomized blocking. The intervention was implemented once a week for three weeks in thehealth center, and on other days of the week, the participants listened athometo aCDthey were given. The intervention and the controlgroups all received routine pregnancy care once a week. These mothers were tracked during their labor. Outcomes includinggestational age at delivery, delivery type, and neonatal anthropometric indices were recorded based on the mother’s records.Results: There was no statistically significant difference between the groups in terms of demographic and obstetric characteristicsbefore the intervention. In comparison with the control group, the probability of preterm delivery was lower in the Holy Quranwith translation group (odds ratio: 0.3, CI 95%: 0.1-1.2) and in the Holy Quran without translation group (0.6, 0.2-1.9) as comparedto the control group. However, this difference was not statistically significant. Similarly, the probability of caesarean delivery waslower in the Holy Quran with translation group (0.6, 0.3-1.4) and the Holy Quran without translation group (0.5, 0.2-1.2) as comparedto the control group. Based on one-way ANOVA, there was no statistically significant difference between the study groups regardingthe infants’ anthropometric indices.Conclusions: Based on the results of this study, despite the lower prevalence of preterm labor and caesarean section in the interventiongroups as compared to the control group, no statistically significant effect was seen. This was apparently due to the smallsample size.