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Hiva Mahmoodi
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Objective: Patients with breast cancer often experience symptom burden, functional deterioration, and other concerns inherent to a progressive and life-limiting disease. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between family resilience and symptom burden with the mediating role of functional ...
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Objective: Patients with breast cancer often experience symptom burden, functional deterioration, and other concerns inherent to a progressive and life-limiting disease. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between family resilience and symptom burden with the mediating role of functional exercise adherence in women with breast cancer. Method: The method of the research was fundamental in terms of its purpose and of the correlation type based on structural equation modeling (SEM). The statistical population included all women with breast cancer living in Saqoz city in 2022 who referred to hospitals that 150 women were selected by convenience sampling. Research tools included Family Resilience Questionnaire (FRQ), Symptom Burden Questionnaire (SBQ) and Functional Exercise Adherence Scale (FECS). Data were analyzed using SPSS and AMOS software with path analysis method.
Results: The results of correlation coefficients showed that there is a negative and significant correlation between family resilience and symptom burden subscales and a positive and significant correlation with functional exercise adherence (P<0.01). Also, there is a negative and significant relationship between functional exercise adherence and the burden of symptoms (P < 0.01). According to the results the proposed model has a good fit (x2/df=0.86, p<0.001, CFI= 0.99, RMSEA=0.06). Also, the direct effect of resilience and functional exercise adherence on symptom burden is significant (P<0.01). When functional exercise adherence is included as a mediator in the relationship between family resilience and symptom burden, the indirect effect of family resilience on symptom burden is 0.51, which is significant (P<0.01). Finally, family resilience indirectly affects symptom burden through functional exercise adherence.
Conclusion: These results have important implications for clinical practice and research in the field of breast cancer patients and show the need to develop approaches and better management of these patients in self-care behaviors. Family resilience as a positive psychological factor can indirectly affect the breast cancer patients’ physical performance after chemotherapy and reduce the burden of symptoms to some extent. In fact, increasing the family resilience helps patients to increase their self-management in how to deal with cancer and control their symptoms and indirectly reduce the amount of disease symptoms. It can also be said that increasing the family resilience can be achieved through reducing negative emotions and improving the feeling of control over the disease with the help of post-surgery treatments through compliance and receiving appropriate services and as a result reducing physical limitations. So, it seems that the family resilience leads the patient's ability to make rational decisions and more cooperation with the treatment team, which in turn reduces the burden symptoms.
elahe pourkaveh dehkordi; arsalan khan mohammadi; ali asghar abbasi asfajir
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Objective: The purpose of this study is to analyze the factors influencing Iranian womenIt was cosmetic surgery. Method: This article examines the problem with a meta-analytical approach.The participants of the study (N=50) were selected randomly to 32 participants as the required qualification and research ...
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Objective: The purpose of this study is to analyze the factors influencing Iranian womenIt was cosmetic surgery. Method: This article examines the problem with a meta-analytical approach.The participants of the study (N=50) were selected randomly to 32 participants as the required qualification and research study by five supervisors as a research sample, i.e. women tendency to social and psychological factors through 2007 to 2017,data were analyzed by (CMA3). Findings: Based on the findings, four variables: social identity, social acceptability, emotional Intelligence and General Self _efficacy had most effect size on cosmetic surgery Among Iranian women. Conclusion: According to the results, the lower size of social identity, social acceptance, emotional Intelligence and General Self _efficacy, the more tendencies to cosmetic surgery.
Marzieh Hajibabaei; MohammadBagher Kajbaf; Maryam Esmaeili; Mohammad Hossein Harirchian; Ali Montazeri
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Objective: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most prevalent neurologic disabling disease in young ages accompanied by psychological side effects. Recently prevalence of MS has been rising in Iran. The aim of the present study was to explanation of psychological problems and coping behaviors among women ...
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Objective: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most prevalent neurologic disabling disease in young ages accompanied by psychological side effects. Recently prevalence of MS has been rising in Iran. The aim of the present study was to explanation of psychological problems and coping behaviors among women with multiple sclerosis. Method: This was a qualitative study. In all 15 women with MS participated in study. Patients were selected in a convenience sampling method. Semi-structured interview was used for data collection. The data were collected until saturation achieved. After coding, the data was analyzed through conventional content analysis. Findings: In general, five themes emerged from analysis as psychological problems. These were poor life skills, inadequate (avoidant) coping strategies, depression and emotional- cognitive distortions, relationship problems and fear of solitude including emotional dysregulation, marital, family and social relationships, cultural beliefs and MS stigmatization. In addition, extra five themes emerged as coping behaviors. These were, spiritual-religious coping, acquiring moral values, confidence on god strength and belief in eternal life, search of meaning and being purposeful, active (problem-focused) coping strategies. Conclusion: The findings suggest that to overcome problems among women with MS, developing a comprehensive caring intervention and coping strategies are needed insuring that they include active (problem-focused), and spiritual-religious coping strategies.
Forough Abbasi; fardin moradimaesh; Farah Naderi; saeed Bakhtiar Pour
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Objective: Asthma is a major problem in most parts of the world is still diagnosed and treated as a global health problem and many people die every year. The purpose of this study was to the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy on perceived stress and illness perception in asthmatic individuals. ...
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Objective: Asthma is a major problem in most parts of the world is still diagnosed and treated as a global health problem and many people die every year. The purpose of this study was to the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy on perceived stress and illness perception in asthmatic individuals. Method: The statistical population of this study included all asthmatic individuals who referred to asthma and allergy clinics in Bushehr in year 2019, 40 of them were selected voluntarily and randomly assigned to experimental group and control group (each group of 20 person). To collect data Cohen, Kamarck, and Mermelstein’s perceived stress (1983) questionnaire and Mouss-Morris et. al.’s illness perception (2002) were used. This quasi experimental study was conducted with a pretest-posttest design with control group. The experimental group underwent acceptance and commitment therapy but the control group received no treatments. Data were analysed using covariance analysis. Findings: The results showed that acceptance and commitment therapy was effective to decrease perceived stress and increase illness perception in asthmatic individuals (p < .05). Conclusion: According to the results, this treatment can be used to decrease perceived stress and increase illness perception in asthmatic individuals. And help them to decrease their tentions.
MAHNAZ ALI AKBARI DEHKORDI; mozhgan bitaneh
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Objective: Psychological capital can strengthen people's sense of self-efficacy, hope of life, resilience, and optimism. therefore the present study was conducted aiming to investigate effectiveness of psychological capital elements training on psychological flexibility and psychological distress on ...
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Objective: Psychological capital can strengthen people's sense of self-efficacy, hope of life, resilience, and optimism. therefore the present study was conducted aiming to investigate effectiveness of psychological capital elements training on psychological flexibility and psychological distress on the women with breast cancer. Method: It was a quasi-experimental study with pretest, posttest with control group. The statistical population of the current study was the women with breast cancer referring to Shohadaye Tajrish hospital in the city of Tehran in three months of the spring of 2018-19. 30 women with breast cancer were selected through with conscious and voluntary consentand they were randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups (each group of 15). The women present in the experimental group received psychological capital elements training (Akhondi, 2017) ten ninety-minute sessions of training psychological capitals during ten weeks. The applied questionnaires in this study included the questionnaire of psychological flexibility (Denis and Vanderwal, 2010) and the questionnaire of psychological fusion (Kesler et.al, 2003). The data from the study were analyzed through MANCOVA method. Findings: The results showed that psychological capital elements training has had significant effect on psychological flexibility and psychological distress in the women with breast cancer (p<0.001) in a way that this therapy was able to lead to the improvement of psychological flexibility and decrease of psychological distress in the women with breast cancer. Conclusion: Considering the study results, psychological capital elements training can be used as an efficient method to improve psychological flexibility and the decrease of psychological distress on the women with breast cancer through applying the concepts such as resilience, hopefulness, self-efficacy and optimism.
najibeh asadi medikhanmahalle; azra zebardast; sajjad rezaei
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Objective: A diagnosis of cancer will influence the person with cancer and their family over a long period of time. Caregivers of cancer patients play important role over the trajectory of cancer care from diagnosis to the end of life. The aim of this study is explaining of regrets in first degree survivors ...
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Objective: A diagnosis of cancer will influence the person with cancer and their family over a long period of time. Caregivers of cancer patients play important role over the trajectory of cancer care from diagnosis to the end of life. The aim of this study is explaining of regrets in first degree survivors of cancer patients with early death. Method: In the present study, qualitative research method has been used with the descriptive phenomenology approach. The information was collected and recorded through individual, in-depth and semi-structured interviews with eight individuals. Data were analyzed by colaizzi method. Findings: The themes were obtained under three main questions were categorized to four main themes, include "complete dissatisfaction with yourself", "feeling of negligence", "trying to fulfill the patient’s wishes and comfort", "not expressing enough emotions", "impact of the treatment staff". Conclusion: The results of present study demonstrate that there is shortcoming in supporting families of cancer patients and it is important to support bereaved people after grief in order to decrease self-blame and increasing comfort and relaxation. Effective interventions in health psychology is necessary to alleviate annoying effect of regret for families of cancer patients, during illness, after loss and experience of grief.
Mahnaz Rostami Amin; Mohammad Reza Zoghi Paydar
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Objective: The purpose of the current study was to compare the effectiveness of motivational interviewing and schema therapy combined with motivational interviewing on reducing depression and anxiety in patients with Chronic Renal Failure. Method: The present research was semi-experimental in which a ...
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Objective: The purpose of the current study was to compare the effectiveness of motivational interviewing and schema therapy combined with motivational interviewing on reducing depression and anxiety in patients with Chronic Renal Failure. Method: The present research was semi-experimental in which a pretest-posttest with control group design was used. The research population included all the people with chronic renal failure referring to the Besat Hospital in Hamedan in 2015. The study sample included 45 patients who were selected by available sampling method and, then, were assigned into two experiment groups and one control group through random assignment method. Patients in the experimental groups have received appropriate interventions for 10 sessions individually. The data achieved by (HADS) were analyzed through statistical tests of ANCOVA and MANCOVA. Findings: The results of multivariate analysis of covariance test show that there is a significant difference between the mean scores of depression and anxiety in the experimental and control groups (P<0.01). The results of Bonferroni test shows that there is meaningful difference between the mean scores of depression and anxiety in the experimental and control groups (P<0/01). But there is no significant difference between the mean scores of depression and anxiety in the experimental groups (P>0/01). Conclusion: Based on the obtained results, psychologists and health practitioners are suggested to use these two therapeutic models for reducing the depression and anxiety of patients with chronic renal failure.
MONA ABBASI; hayede saberi; Afsane Taheri
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Objective: Chronic pain affects a person's thinking, performance and feelings, causing various limitations in a person's life. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between pain perception based on childhood trauma and mediated emotion regulation in people with chronic pain. Method: ...
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Objective: Chronic pain affects a person's thinking, performance and feelings, causing various limitations in a person's life. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between pain perception based on childhood trauma and mediated emotion regulation in people with chronic pain. Method: The method of the present study is a descriptive correlational method of structural equation modeling (path analysis). From patients referred to pain clinics in Tehran in 1399, 300 patients with chronic pain were selected by convenience sampling. The instruments used in this study included Granfsky and Craig's Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ), Bernstein Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ) and Visual Pain Scale (VAS). SPSS and Amos software were used to analyze the data. Findings: The results indicate that each of the positive and negative emotion regulation strategies plays a mediating role in the relationship between pain perception and childhood trauma in patients with chronic pain. Conclusion: The tendency of individuals to use positive or negative cognitive emotion regulation strategies can be a determining factor in the impact of childhood trauma on the perception of chronic pain.
marzieh jafari harandi; mozhgan arefi
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Objective: Covid-19 pandemic causes psychological and emotional turbulence and emergence of anxiety in many people in the society. Therefore, the present study was conducted to investigate the efficacy of online unified trans-diagnostic treatment on the health anxiety and emotional self-regulation in ...
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Objective: Covid-19 pandemic causes psychological and emotional turbulence and emergence of anxiety in many people in the society. Therefore, the present study was conducted to investigate the efficacy of online unified trans-diagnostic treatment on the health anxiety and emotional self-regulation in the women with the Covid-19 pandemic anxiety. Method: the present study was quasi-experimental with pretest, posttest and control group design. The statistical population of the present study included the women with Covid-19 pandemic anxiety in the city of Isfahan in the winter of 2020. 34 women with Covid-19 anxiety were selected through purposive sampling method and were randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups (each group of 17 patients). The experimental group received ten seventy-five-minute unified trans-diagnostic treatment sessions online (Barlo et.al, 2011). The applied questionnaires in this study included Covid-19 anxiety questionnaire (Ali Pour et.al, 2019), health anxiety questionnaire (Salkovskis, Warwick, 2002 and emotional self-regulation questionnaire (Gross, John, 2003). The data from the study were analyzed through ANCOVA method. Findings: the results showed that the online unified trans-diagnostic treatment has significant effect on the health anxiety and emotional self-regulation of the women with the Covid-19 pandemic anxiety (p<0.001) and succeeded in the reduce health anxiety and improve emotional self-regulation in these women. Conclusion: according to the findings of the present study it can be concluded that online unified trans-diagnostic treatment can be used as an efficient treatment to improve health anxiety and emotional self-regulation of the women with Covid 19 pandemic anxiety through employing techniques such as identifying emotions, training emotional awareness and diagnostic reevaluation.
sahar bagheri; mohammad hatami; Hassan Rezaei-Jamalouei; moslem abbasi
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Objective: Considering the chronicity and long duration of multiple sclerosis and the importance of self-criticism and fatigue in these patients, the need to pay attention to the use of cognitive behavioral therapy and its third generation in these patients has been neglected. The aim of this study was ...
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Objective: Considering the chronicity and long duration of multiple sclerosis and the importance of self-criticism and fatigue in these patients, the need to pay attention to the use of cognitive behavioral therapy and its third generation in these patients has been neglected. The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of cognitive and behavioral training based on fatigue and cognitive self-compassion on the dimensions of fatigue and self-criticism in patients with multiple sclerosis. Method: The present study was a quasi-experimental study with a post-test and follow-up design (2 months). Subjects with an age range of 20-40 years and with a scale of physical disability (EDSS) one to 5.5 and targeted sampling and voluntarily selected and randomly divided into experimental groups and evidence of division Were. Both groups answered the fatigue Impact scale (1994), Thompson & Zuroff (2004) in the pre-test-post-test and 2-month follow-up. The collected data were analyzed using mixed analysis of covariance with repeated measures. Findings: The results of analysis of covariance mixed with repeated measures showed that cognitive and behavioral training based on fatigue and cognitive self-compassion are effective on the dimensions of fatigue and self-criticism in patients with multiple sclerosis. Also, the effects of the intervention were maintained after 2 months of follow-up on the reduction of fatigue and self-critical scores. Conclusion: Based on the results of this study, cognitive-behavioral training based on fatigue and cognitive self-compassion can be used along with drug interventions to reduce fatigue and self-criticism of multiple sclerosis patients in medical centers.
Kamran Pourmohammad ghouchani; sara mandanizade safi; jafar noori
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Objective: Consider the role of psychological problems in the incidence and recurrence of cardiovascular disease in individuals it is necessary to treat these factors while identifying them. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of positive psychotherapy on alexithymia and repetitive ...
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Objective: Consider the role of psychological problems in the incidence and recurrence of cardiovascular disease in individuals it is necessary to treat these factors while identifying them. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of positive psychotherapy on alexithymia and repetitive negative thinking in cardiovascular patients. Method: The semi-experimental research method was pre-test-post-test design with control group and 3-month follow-up stage. The statistical population of the study included all cardiovascular patients referred to Imam Reza Heart Hospital in Mashhad in 2021. Among them, 30 subjects (14 males and 16 females) were selected by purposeful sampling method and randomly assigned to two experimental groups (15) and control group (15). The experimental group received psychotherapy based on positive psychology perspective in 6 sessions, 60 minutes individually. To collect data, Alexei Teymia Toronto-20 questionnaire (Begby et al., 1994) and recurring negative thoughts (McEavi et al., 2010) were used. The data were analyzed using repeated variance analysis test. Findings: According to the results of this study, there was a significant difference in the scores of emotional failure variable and its components including difficulty in identifying emotions, difficulty in describing emotions and objective thinking, and repeated negative thoughts variable, considering the main effect of time stages, the main effect of psychotherapy intervention and also the interactive effect of time stages with psychotherapy intervention (P<0.01). Conclusion: Positive psychotherapy had effectiveness and efficiency in reducing alexithya and repetitive negative thoughts in cardiovascular patients.
Asghar Fouladi; Ali khademi; Ali Shaker Dioulagh
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Objective: Nurses are more often exposed to cyberchondria owing to their frequent contact with patients. Thus, the present study was carried out to compare the effectiveness of metacognitive and compassion therapies on the level of cyberchondria symptoms in nurses. Method: The research utilized an experimental ...
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Objective: Nurses are more often exposed to cyberchondria owing to their frequent contact with patients. Thus, the present study was carried out to compare the effectiveness of metacognitive and compassion therapies on the level of cyberchondria symptoms in nurses. Method: The research utilized an experimental method involving a pre-test, post-test and follow-up design. As for the sample size, 60 nurses from hospitals in Tabriz participated in the research in 2022. Through random selection, the nurses were assigned to three groups, i.e. metacognitive therapy, compassion therapy and control group. McLurry and Shevlin’s Cyberchondria Scale (CSS) was employed for data collection. Next, the researchers carried out data analysis with the use of the mixed analysis of variance model, Tukey's and Benferroni's post hoc tests, using SPSS statistical software (version 22). A significant P value of less than 0.05 was observed. Findings: The time factor proved to have a significant impact on the amount of cyberchondria dimensions. In other words, the level of cyberchondria dimensions decreased from pre-test to follow-up. Moreover, the interaction effect of time and group also revealed that there were significant variations among the three groups (i.e. metacognitive therapy group, compassion therapy group and control group) in terms of compulsion, distress, excessiveness and reassurance. In other words, the level of cyberchondria dimensions in the intervention groups was lower than that of the control group in the post-test and the follow-up phases. Conclusion: Given the effectiveness of metacognitive and compassion therapies on cyberchondria symptoms, it seems that the application of metacognitive therapy and compassion therapy interventions will alleviate and treat cyberchondria symptoms in nurses.
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Maede Asadollah Najafi; Batool Aminjafari; Mehdi Marvi
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Objectives: Cancer has experienced alarming growth in the last two decades and is considered as an urgent health problem of modern life. Meanwhile, breast cancer is one of the most common types of cancer, and its annual incidence is increasing at a rate of 1.8 to 2% in the world, and it ranks first among ...
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Objectives: Cancer has experienced alarming growth in the last two decades and is considered as an urgent health problem of modern life. Meanwhile, breast cancer is one of the most common types of cancer, and its annual incidence is increasing at a rate of 1.8 to 2% in the world, and it ranks first among all women's cancers. However it has a major difference from other chronic diseases. In addition to requiring long-term care and treatment, it cannot be completely cured. This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of group self-healing training on distress tolerance, emotional reactivity and anxiety in women with breast cancer in Isfahan. Methods: It was semi-experimental in the form of pre-test-post-test with a control group. The statistical population included all women with breast cancer in Isfahan who had referred to support center for cancer patients in the first quarter of 2011, and their number was 93 people in this period of time based on the statistics received from the counseling center. 30 people were selected as the sample through available sampling and were placed in two experimental (15 people) and control (15 people) groups. The used tools were Simons & Gaher's distress tolerance (2005), Matuo & Nock's emotional reactivity (2008) and Reese and Patterson anxiety (1985) questionnaires. Self-healing group training sessions based on the protocol of Latifi and Meravi (2017) adapted from Loyd and Johnson (2010) were conducted during 14 sessions. The data were analyzed using SPSS-24 software in two descriptive and inferential (normalization and MANCOVA) according to the investigated hypotheses. Results: The results showed that group self-healing training on distress tolerance and its dimensions (tolerance, evaluation and regulation), emotional reactivity (sensitivity, intensity and stability) and anxiety (fear of physical symptoms, fear of cognitive control distortion, fear of observing anxiety reactions) is effective in women with cancer in Isfahan (P<0.05). Conclusion: Therefore, it seems that this method can be used for breast cancer patients. The reason for the effectivness of self-healing training on reducing cancer patients’ anxiety and stress in physical and psychological dimensions can be attributed to the effects of direct training in the field of fear and anxiety in this intervention. In this treatment method for treating anxiety, strategies include self-education and communication management (keeping calm, avoiding haste, avoiding useless discussions, speaking in a soft tone, not reacting quickly and not judging quickly), trusting others (patience, calmness, happiness and entrusting the solution of the problem to a higher power), adjustment of idealism (reducing the desire to be perfect and accepting mistakes as an inseparable part of every human being), order and time management (having discipline, planning and prioritization and doing necessary daily tasks), correct connection with the mind (living in the present moment), and using physical and muscle relaxation techniques (muscle relaxation, breathing, hydrotherapy, swimming, walking, religious behaviors, watching the sky, listening to the sound of water, meditation and yoga, the use of relaxing audio files at least once a day) were used and the patients were helped to reduce their anxiety to a great. Considering the confirmation of the effectiveness of self-healing training on reducing emotional reactivity and anxiety in people with cancer, it is suggested that doctors and nurses pay attention to their psychological condition in addition to physical treatments for these patients and if they observe psychological problems caused by the disease, refer them to psychologists and counsellors. It is also suggested to set up counseling and psychological centers for cancer patients in hospitals.
asieh shariatmadar; Fatemeh Ghaseminiaei
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Objective: Today, in any crisis, the media and their news reflections play a very important role in how to cope with the crisis, although the audience of this news can influence this process by active or passive reaction. In this regard, examining the dynamics of this interaction and the role it can ...
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Objective: Today, in any crisis, the media and their news reflections play a very important role in how to cope with the crisis, although the audience of this news can influence this process by active or passive reaction. In this regard, examining the dynamics of this interaction and the role it can play in the perceived stress of persons during the quarantine of COVID-19 disease is the main purpose of the research. Method: The research was performed with a qualitative approach and with a phenomenological method based on the lived experiences of 15 men and women in Khorramabad with theoretical non-random sampling. The method of data collection was the semi-structured interview, which was done virtually via WhatsApp due to executive limitations. Findings: The data obtained includes the three main axes of the interactive role of the person-media, the second axis with title of perceived stress after dealing with news of death in virtual media and the third axis with title of the coping styles of person after facing the news of death and experiencing stress that each of which has its own themes and sub-themes. Conclusion: According to the interactive role of the person and virtual media and the effects that can have on person's stress, the set of coping strategies used includes avoidance coping (avoiding the problem and solving it), decentralization of mind from crisis, health and medical care, focusing on the positive aspects of life, seeking support, and changing attitudes and philosophies of life with sub-components specific to each, can be used as practical models in critical situations to prevent physical and psychological injuries and increase the level of adaptation of persons.
Arefe Eskandari; Mostafa Naeimi; Ali Fathi Ashtiani; Hojjatollah Farahani
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Objective: The aim of this study was to prepare the Persian version of the orthorexia nervosa Scale and evaluate its psychometric properties. Method: The sample of the present study consisted of 639 people aged 18 to 65 years living in Tehran who were tested using the available sampling method. The Persian ...
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Objective: The aim of this study was to prepare the Persian version of the orthorexia nervosa Scale and evaluate its psychometric properties. Method: The sample of the present study consisted of 639 people aged 18 to 65 years living in Tehran who were tested using the available sampling method. The Persian version of the orthorexia nervosa Scale was prepared after the translation-retranslation process and was administered along with the eating attitude test (EAT-26) and Reef psychological well-being questionnaire (REEF-18). The validity of the scale was assessed using construct, convergent and divergent validity was evaluated through Pearson correlation. Moreover, to assess its reliability, Cronbach's alpha calculation method and composite reliability were used. Findings: The results of exploratory factor analysis indicated the existence of three factors: cognitive, emotional and clinical, and the results of confirmatory factor analysis indicated the goodness of fit and eligibility of the obtained model. Significant correlations between the obtained factors with the eating attitude test and Reef psychological well-being questionnaire also confirmed the convergent and divergent validity of the orthorexia nervosa scale. The reliability of the scale was calculated using Cronbach's alpha coefficient and obtained 0.811 for the all scales and ranged 0.69 to 0.735 for specific scales. Moreover, the composite reliability of the scales ranged between 0.78 and 0.82. Conclusion: Conclusions: In general, it can be said that the Persian version of the orthorexia nervosa Scale has a three-factor structure and has the adequate validity and reliability for use in psychological research in the Iranian sample.
Mehrnoosh Hossein zadeh; Fatemeh Ghasemi Niaei; Mojtaba Haghani Zemydani; masoumeh esmaeily
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Objective: Today, with the formation of a new style of life, human beings have witnessed changes and transformations in various parts of their lives, since the most important part of human life is the family, this part has also undergone changes and transformations. This article aims to study and interpret ...
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Objective: Today, with the formation of a new style of life, human beings have witnessed changes and transformations in various parts of their lives, since the most important part of human life is the family, this part has also undergone changes and transformations. This article aims to study and interpret the lived experiences of families who have a person at risk for coronary heart disease, which actually includes people with an underlying disease whose immune system is weak. Method: This research is of qualitative phenomenological type. The statistical population is all Isfahan's families with at-risk individuals who were suffering from an underlying disease during the coronation period, and 12 people were purposefully selected and interviewed in a semi-structured manner. Findings: The data obtained from the interview were analyzed by Colaizzi method. Conclusion: The results of the lived experiences of families with high-risk groups in five main themes that show how to respond to the crisis and perceive the role of families with the changes they experienced in lifestyle and passing through this stage along with mediating components and how to deal with these conditions in five Behavioral, cognitive, emotional, social and spiritual domains. Therefore, these findings are in line with empowering counselors and psychologists to help these vulnerable families.
seyedeh fatemeh edalatian hoseini; saeed teimory; fereshteh yazdanpanah
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Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based psychotherapy on psychological helplessness, acceptance and pain intensity in People with symptoms of back pain. Method: In order to achieve the research goal, 28 people suffered from chronic low back pain symptoms ...
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Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based psychotherapy on psychological helplessness, acceptance and pain intensity in People with symptoms of back pain. Method: In order to achieve the research goal, 28 people suffered from chronic low back pain symptoms by sampling method were selected and randomly assigned to the control and experimental groups and were assessed using multidimensional pain questionnaires, pain acceptance questionnaire and Psychological helplessness questionnaires. The experimental group underwent 8 sessions of treatment intervention and the collected data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of covariance. Findings: The results of covariance analysis showed that mindfulness-based psychotherapy had a significant effect on pain severity, pain acceptance and Psychological helplessness of the experimental group compared to the control group. (p<0.05). Conclusion: The results of the study indicate that the effect of mindfulness-based psychotherapy on psychological helplessness, acceptance and pain intensity in people with back pain symptoms can be used as an effective method.
marzieh Talebzadeh Shoshtari; Mahshid Ahmadnezhad
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Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the causal relationship between inferiority feeling and self-control with depression, anxiety and stress through mediation of social support in women with premenstrual syndrome. Method: The statistical population of this study was all women with premenstrual ...
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Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the causal relationship between inferiority feeling and self-control with depression, anxiety and stress through mediation of social support in women with premenstrual syndrome. Method: The statistical population of this study was all women with premenstrual syndrome in ahvaz in the year 2020. The study was a correlational research based on structural equation modeling. In this regard, using targeted sampling method, a sample of 250 people were selected from those who completed the premenstrual symptoms questionnaire. Data were collected using premenstrual syndrome screening tool (2011), the Comparative feeling of inferiority index (1995), Self-control Questionnaire (2004), depression, anxiety and stress scale (2007) and Perceived social support scale (1986). SPSS25 and AMOS22 software were used to analyze the data. Findings: The results supported the suitability of the relationship between the patterns and the collected data. The results revealed that social support mediated the relationship between inferiority feeling on depression and stress, as well as the relationship between self-control on depression and stress. However, this study did not find on indirect effect of social support on the inferiority feeling with anxiety and self-control on anxiety (p < 0/05). Also, the direct path of inferiority feeling with stress and social support with anxiety was not confirmed and the final model was removed. Conclusion: Based on the results, social support can be considered as an effective factor in women with premenstrual syndrome in relation to the variables of inferiority feeling, self-control, depression, anxiety and stress.
kimia kargar; shahram vaziri; farah lotfi kashani; Maryam Nasri; Fatemeh Shahabizadeh
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Objective: The present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of unified trans-diagnostic treatment on the emotional expression and sexual function of the infertile women. Method: It was a quasi-experimental study with pretest, posttest and control group design. Two-month follow-up period ...
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Objective: The present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of unified trans-diagnostic treatment on the emotional expression and sexual function of the infertile women. Method: It was a quasi-experimental study with pretest, posttest and control group design. Two-month follow-up period was administered too. The statistical population included infertile women who referred to Infertility Clinic at Mother and Child Hospital and Samar Infertility Clinic in the city of Shiraz in the winter of 2021. Thirty six infertile women were selected through voluntary sampling method and randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups. The experimental group received ten sessions of unified trans-diagnostic treatment during two-and-a-half-months. The applied questionnaires in this study included Emotional Expression Questionnaire (EEQ) (King, Emmons, 1990) and Sexual Function Questionnaire (Keraskian, Mojembari and Kaiballah, 2014). The collected data were analyzed through mixed ANOVA via SPSS23 software. Findings: The results showed that unified trans-diagnostic treatment has significant effect on the emotional expression (F=39.82; Eta=0.54; P<0001) and sexual function (F=31.88; Eta=0.49; P<0001) in the infertile women. Conclusion: According to the findings of the present study it can be concluded that unified trans-diagnostic treatment can be used as an efficient therapy to improve emotional expression and sexual function in the infertile women through employing techniques such as identifying emotions, emotional awareness, cognitive reassessment, and identifying patterns of emotion avoidance.
alireza aghayousefi; yarhosain safari; Sara Ahmadi; parastoo abaspour
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Objective: type II diabetes is one of the chronic illnesses with various physical and psychological effects for patient. The purpose of the present research was to study the effectiveness of coping therapy on psychological markers (Stress, quality of life and coping strategies) in type II diabetic patients. ...
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Objective: type II diabetes is one of the chronic illnesses with various physical and psychological effects for patient. The purpose of the present research was to study the effectiveness of coping therapy on psychological markers (Stress, quality of life and coping strategies) in type II diabetic patients. Method: It was a semi-experimental research with pre-test, post-test, control group and follow up test. The population of the research includes all diabetic patients with registered medical records in diabetes center of Kermanshah in 2016. 40 individuals were selected by available and random sampling in experimental and control group (20 individuals per group). They have completed coping strategies questionnaire of Folkman- Lazarous, family life incidents and changes (FILE) and short form of diabetic patients' quality of life (DQOL-BCI). Findings: Data was analyzed by SPSS-20 and the results showed that coping therapy significantly increases the quality of life, adhere to treatment, coping strategies, social support, planned problem-solving, positive reevaluation, stress reduction and continence in experimental group than control group (p<0.01, p<0.05). however, the results indicated that there is no significant difference in the variable of escape-avoidance coping strategies between experimental and control group (p>0.05). Conclusion: according to the results, it can be said that coping strategies may reduce the problems of patients with chronic illnesses such as diabetes.
avisa najimi; mojgan agahheris; karim asgari
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Objective: Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) has The most burden of deseas among physical illnesses. CHD is one of the chronic illnesses that the physiological and psychological factors have interactions in development and maintanence of it. So modifying and eliminating of it risk factors is essential in ...
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Objective: Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) has The most burden of deseas among physical illnesses. CHD is one of the chronic illnesses that the physiological and psychological factors have interactions in development and maintanence of it. So modifying and eliminating of it risk factors is essential in the treatment of CHD. Hence, The objective of this study was comparing the effectiveness of two types of training including autogenic relaxation with positive self-talk and emotional regulation on affective control among patients with cardiovascular disease. Method: This study was an semi-experimental study and pretest-posttest-follow up design with control group and using convenient sampling method,45 female volunteers with CHD disease were selected and randomly assigned into three groups. The experimental groups were instructed the protocols of each intervention. All the subjects filled out the affective control scale prior to, after, and 1/5 months later thanthe end of each intervention. Data analysis were analised by applying repeated measures analysis of variances and Tukey's follow-up test methods. Findings: Findings revealed that both interventions could significantly modify the affective control (P<0.05), but these two groups didn`t have significant fifferencer (P>0.05). Conclusion: Enhancement of the affective controlcan be achieved through the both training by instructing their special techniques. So, The practitioners could apply these interventions in combination to medical treatments for controlling the CHD symptoms.
Reza Afzali; Parvin Ehteshamzadeh; Parviz Asgari; Farah Naderi
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Objective: Eating disorder is a common disorder that has not received much psychological treatment. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of schema therapy on food craving، attentional bias to food، and cognitive flexibility in people with eating disorder. Method: This study was an ...
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Objective: Eating disorder is a common disorder that has not received much psychological treatment. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of schema therapy on food craving، attentional bias to food، and cognitive flexibility in people with eating disorder. Method: This study was an experimental study with pre-test and post-test with control group. The population of this study consisted of 40 persons with eating disorder who were purposefully selected using Gormal Eating Questionnaire and General Health Questionnaire and clinical interview based on DSM-5 criteria. Subjects were randomly divided into two experimental and control groups. Pre-test was performed using craving questionnaire، cognitive flexibility questionnaire and researcher-made attentional bias assessment tool. The intervention consisted of 10 sessions of schema therapy. Data were analyzed using SPSS 23 software and MANCOVA method. Findings: The results of this study showed that schema therapy had a significant effect on attentional bias، cognitive flexibility and food craving in people with overeating. The results remained stable at the 45-day follow-up after the posttest. Conclusion: Based on the results، it can be concluded that schema therapy can be used as an effective treatment method in people with binge eating disorder.
Farzaneh Ranjbar Noushari
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Objective: Migraine is a profoundly debilitating condition that psychological variables can affect it. The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of coping styles and perceived social support in the relationship between temperament and character dimensions and psychological well-being ...
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Objective: Migraine is a profoundly debilitating condition that psychological variables can affect it. The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of coping styles and perceived social support in the relationship between temperament and character dimensions and psychological well-being in people with migraine. Method: This study was a correlational study. The statistical population included all people with migraine in Rasht in 1398 who referred to a neurologist. The sample consisted of 432 people (276 female and 156 male) who were selected by available sampling method. Instruments used in this study included the temperament and character inventory (TCI-56), psychological well-being scale (PWB), coping responses inventory (CRI), and multidimensional scale of perceived social support (MSPSS). Findings: Path analysis showed that the psychological well-being in people with migraine is influenced by temperament and character dimensions, coping styles and perceived social support. Also, the mediating role of coping styles and perceived social support in the relationship between temperament and character dimensions and psychological well-being was confirmed. To evaluate the model, CFI (0.91), GFI (0.93), NFI (0.91), and RMSEA (0.07) indices were used and the proposed model fit well with the data. Conclusion: Psychological factors play a role in the psychological well-being of people with migraines. Therefore, identifying these variables could have important implications for psychological migraine treatments.
Ali Afshari; Ahmad Esmaili Koraneh
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Objective: The purpose of this study was to compare negative mood regulation, personal behavior and lifestyle in cancer patients, heart and normal patients. Method: This is a causal-comparative study. The statistical population of the study included all cancer patients who referred to medical centers ...
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Objective: The purpose of this study was to compare negative mood regulation, personal behavior and lifestyle in cancer patients, heart and normal patients. Method: This is a causal-comparative study. The statistical population of the study included all cancer patients who referred to medical centers of Urmia city during the first 3 months of 2018. 75 cancer patients, 75 heart patients and 75 normal people were selected through the available sampling method. responded to Negative Settlement Questionnaires for Katanazar and Mirens (1990), Pender's Lifestyle Life Questionnaire, and Personal Inventory of Collins and Associates (1973). The data were analyzed using by ANOVA analysis method. Findings: The results of ANOVA analysis showed that there was a significant difference between the groups of cardiac patients and normal people with cancer patients of negative mood regulation, personal behavior and life style (p<0.01). Also, there was no significant difference between negative mood regulation, personal behavior and lifestyle of cardiac patients and normal people (p<0.01). Conclusion: The results showed that cancer patients experience more problems in regulating negative mood, personal behavior and lifestyle than cardiac patients and normal people.
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soroor khabbaz sabet; Ali poladi Rishehri; moloud keykhosrovani; Mohammadreza Bahrani
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Objective: in recent decades, new perceptions of beauty have been defined and beauty is defined as attractiveness and perfection. The aim of this study was to determine the fit of the structural model of the relationship between the tendency to cosmetic surgery with a negative body image and irrational ...
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Objective: in recent decades, new perceptions of beauty have been defined and beauty is defined as attractiveness and perfection. The aim of this study was to determine the fit of the structural model of the relationship between the tendency to cosmetic surgery with a negative body image and irrational beliefs mediated by cognitive emotion regulation in women applying for cosmetic surgery in Bushehr. Method: The present study was correlational and structural equation model study. The statistical population of this study is all women applicants for surgery who referred to beauty clinics in Bushehr in 2020. The sample size consists of 400 women who were selected by available random sampling method. Data collection tools were, tendency to cosmetic surgery (Etemadifar & Amani, 2013), Body image (Littleton, 2005), irrational beliefs (jones, 1969) and cognitive emotion regulation (Garnefski, 2001) questionnaires. Findings: The results showed that negative body image and irrational beliefs predicted the tendency to cosmetic surgery in women by mediating role of cognitive emotion regulation. Also, data analysis showed the appropriateness of the indicators and indicated a good and acceptable fitness for the hypothesized model. The findings of the structural model showed that the path of negative body image and irrational beliefs with cognitive emotion regulation is significant directly and with a tendency to cosmetic surgery mediated by cognitive emotion regulation. Conclusion: The results of this study can introduce a protocol for psychotherapists and counselors in providing specialized counseling to women seeking cosmetic surgery to correct irrational beliefs and cognitions and teach coping styles to reduce negative body image and irrational beliefs and increase cognitive emotion regulation.