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Since virtue is an excellent trait of the human that would be gained throughout one's life, therefore, spiritual education may play a positive role in the development of the mentioned characters. The present study is carried out to find the effects of spiritual education on the achievement of virtues. This study is an analytic article review accomplished in 2020. The articles were searched through Web of Science, PubMed, Scopus, and Google scholar. Based on this analytic article review, spirituality has a positive effect on health and wellbeing; therefore, ethical problems could be improved through spirituality which is the main part of recent psychological interventions. Peace, wellbeing, and happiness in the world are mostly related to the virtues of individuals. The scientific studies found a positive significant relationship between spiritual education and good behavior. The knowledge of two inner sources of thought, feelings, and beliefs in every human entity is a very important component of such education. The inner part (thoughts, feelings, and beliefs) of humans contains positive and negative aspects, also called Heart and Nafs respectively. The heart is responsible for virtues and Nafs is responsible for evils. Every person should look for strengthening oneself heart through spiritual ways. The heart strength mostly via spiritual education and activities conducted by spiritual persons, friends, or teachers. A spiritual person should have effective speeches and good moral characters that influence the heart and mind of people. The awaked heart can positively stimulate the cognitive-affective personality system to perform good characters. The Nafs also can negatively stimulate this system and lead to bad characters. Spiritual education must be available to children and adolescents within school or communities for gaining virtues. Spiritual education is one of the most effective ways of gaining a good moral character. The best spiritual education model described that every speech and activity rooted in the heart effectively activates the cognitive-affective personality system and established admirable behaviors. This kind of education is the best way to have a peaceful and happy world. It also would result in the unity of people of different ethnicities, races, nations, and religions.

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Introduction: Prematurity is one of the leading causes of neonatal death in Afghanistan and complicates many serious problems including apnea. Although recurrent and prolong apnea of prematurity (AOP) may be directly or indirectly associated with significant adverse outcomes, there isn’t enough scientific information regarding the prevalence and risk factors of this problem in Afghanistan, therefore, this study is performed to obtain such information. Objective: To determine the prevalence rate and risk factors for apnea of prematurity in neonates admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the French Medical Institute for Mothers and Children Hospital, Kabul City. Patients and Methods: This analytic cross-sectional study was conducted at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the French Medical Institute for Mothers and Children Hospital in Kabul City, Afghanistan. The study participants were preterm neonates. Statistical analysis was performed by SPSS 24. Results: 75 preterm newborns were enrolled in this study and the apnea of prematurity were developed in 48% of them. Extremely low birth weight preterm neonates had a 71.4% prevalence rate of such apnea, while in very low birth weight and low birth weight the rates were 47.4% and 36.4% respectively. Based on gestational age, the prevalence rates of apnea in the early and moderate preterm neonates were 55.6% and 52.8% respectively, whilst also in late preterm neonates it was 42.8%. The apnea of prematurity appeared more prevalent in boys (54.3%) than girls (45.7%). The preterm neonates in the apnea group versus the non-apnea group had the mean birth weight of (1233.33 ± 235.25g vs 1333.46 ± 274.44g, 90%CI= -198 _ -1.4), mean maternal age of (24.78 ± 3.68y vs 26.62 ± 4.58y, 90%CI= -3.44_-0.23) and RR of anemia (2.2, P=0.05). Conclusion: The overall prevalence rate of AOP in preterm neonates was 48% and the highest rates were seen within extremely low birth weight and early preterm neonates. The lower neonatal birth weight, neonatal anemia and younger maternal age were found to be the risk factors for apnea of prematurity.