The Relations Between Monday and Thursday Fasting Toward Spiritual Intelligence (SI): A Preliminary Report

Abstract

This study aimed to know the relationship between Monday and Thursday fasting and
the level of spiritual intelligence (SI) of preclinic medical students of the UIN Syarif Hidayatullah
Jakarta. The design of this study was an analytic observational study with cross-sectional comparison
design. Samples amounted to 50 with 25 respondents in the Monday and Thursday fasting group and
25 respondents in the fasting group. Simple random sampling was used to selected the subject and
data collected by the SI questionnaire. Data analysis was used by the chi-square test at p-value 0.05.
We Obtained 35 subjects with high SI level (70.0%), 8 with medium SI level (16.0%), 4 with very
high (8%), and 3 subjects with low SI level (8%). There was a significant difference in the level of SI
between the Monday and Thursday fasting group and the non-fasting group (P-value 0.001).