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Ali Janadleh
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Objective: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is one of the chronic illness that, due to its multiple and stable physical and mental dimensions, has major and continuous consequences on a wide range of aspects of the individual and social life of the patient. This illness has a female face based on its widespread ...
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Objective: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is one of the chronic illness that, due to its multiple and stable physical and mental dimensions, has major and continuous consequences on a wide range of aspects of the individual and social life of the patient. This illness has a female face based on its widespread prevalence among women and also the specific effects it has on women. Nevertheless, in domestic studies, the experience of women with this illness has been less considered, and the few studies that have been conducted are often based on a clinical-medical and quantitative approach. Accordingly, in this article, an attempt is made to study the experience of women with Multiple sclerosis in the social context of Iranian society. Method: According to the main goal of this study, a feminist phenomenological approach has been adopted. Semi-structured interview was conducted with 25 women suffering from this illness who were selected using the purposeful sampling method and Criterion sampling strategy and the interviews were analyzed based on the procedure suggested by Moustakas. Results: Based on the narratives expressed in the interviews, the studied women's experience of Multiple sclerosis illness was formulated in the themes of living in suspension, shame of powerlessness, sexual inactivity, maternity risk and spousal apprehension. "Life in suspense" means that the women participating in this study, in describing and expressing their experience of MS illness, have mentioned the sense of uncertainty and not having a clear and reliable image of the future. "Shame of powerlessness" refers to the fact that the fatigue and disability caused by MS goes beyond the physical dimension, and women with MS feel a kind of shame due to their inability to perform daily activities. "Sexual inactivity" indicates that uncertainty and disability in MS affect the patient's most private activities, especially sexual performance, in such a way that it leads to a change in the research participants' self-perception and endangering personal relationships with their wives. The forth theme is “Risky motherhood”. In such a situation, "motherhood" in women with MS becomes a "risky" issue for both the patient and the child at various fetal stages and thereafter in terms of meeting the child's care needs. Finally, the theme of "marriage anxiety" that refers to research participant concerns about the continuity of married life, worry about the husband's lack of understanding of the patient's situation and etc. Such conditions make marriage and playing the role of a wife a problematic situation for women with MS. Conclusion: According to the extracted themes, the experience of female participants in this research was conceptualized under the main theme of "identity anxiety" that refers to the experience of anxiety and worry about unfulfilled gender identity. This experience and understanding of MS, is a result of the intersection of the experience of chronic illness with gender, the body, and the social context in which a woman's identity is closely tied to pre-defined expectations and roles such as sexual attractiveness, marriage, homemaking, wifehood, motherhood, etc.
seyyedeh farnaz seddighian; mansour hakim javadi; sajjad rezaei; azra zebardast
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Objective: Not only obesity itself, but also the side effects of obesity that affect mental and social health, which sometimes the treatment of these side effects in helping people is given priority over the treatment of obesity. Obesity stigma as biased attitude toward obese individuals can be associated ...
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Objective: Not only obesity itself, but also the side effects of obesity that affect mental and social health, which sometimes the treatment of these side effects in helping people is given priority over the treatment of obesity. Obesity stigma as biased attitude toward obese individuals can be associated with mental health and body image concerns of women with obesity stigma, is a side effect. Meanwhile, exercise, and especially aerobic exercise training program as reinforces of psychological and physiological functions, can be considered as factors affecting the mental health and body image concerns of women with obesity stigma. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of aerobic exercise program on mental health and body image concerns of women with obesity stigma. Method: The research method is semi-experimental with one-group pretest-posttest design. So, 20 young women with obesity stigma were selected according to the DSM-5 diagnostic interview for eating disorders and the weight self-stigma questionnaire (Lillis et al. 2010) by convenience sampling method, then were assessed at the beginning and end of the aerobic exercise training program using the 28-item Mental Health Questionnaire (Goldberg & Hiller, 1979) and Body Image Concerns Inventory (Littleton, 2005). Findings: Finally, data were analyzed using Uni/Multivariate analysis of variance. According to the results, the aerobic exercise training program increased mental health and reduced body image anxiety in women with obesity stigma. Conclusion: Therefore, exercise programs can influence women's obesity and its associated dimensions, along with psychological intervention
Mahsa Hoseini; Roghayeh kiyani
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Objective: In recent years, a new concept that has gained much attention as an effective construct in irritable bowel syndrome is anxiety sensitivity. The purpose of this study was to investigate the Effectiveness of Group Reality Therapy on Anxiety Sensitivity Patients with irritable bowel syndrome. ...
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Objective: In recent years, a new concept that has gained much attention as an effective construct in irritable bowel syndrome is anxiety sensitivity. The purpose of this study was to investigate the Effectiveness of Group Reality Therapy on Anxiety Sensitivity Patients with irritable bowel syndrome. Method: The present study is a semi-experimental study with pretest-posttest with control group design. The research population included women with irritable bowel syndrome who referred to khatam-ol-anbia hospital in the Miyane city during the period from september to december 2012 who received definite diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome according to a gastroenterologist. From this population, a sample of 30 people was selected by available sampling method and randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups. Participants of the two groups completed the pre-test and post-test stages of Reiss & Peterson (1985) anxiety sensitivity index. The subjects of the experimental group were placed under the training of reality therapy during 8 sessions of 90 minutes. Findings: Data analysis showed that the use of group reality therapy significantly led to decrease in the average scores of the expremental group participants in the anxiety sensitivity (F=82/67, h2=0/75) and its components fear of physical anxiety, fear of lack of cognitive control and fear of anxiety view compared to the control group. conclusion: According to the results, Applying Group reality therapy in clinical practice will be helpful in resolving anxiety sensitivity-related problems in women with Irritable Bowel Syndrome
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hakimeh mousavi; reza Bagherian
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Objective: Health literacy is a broad concept defined in a variety of ways. Health literacy is the capacity for acquisition, processing, understanding of information and basic services for appropriate health decisions. Health literacy is heavily important for breast cancer patients so that therapists ...
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Objective: Health literacy is a broad concept defined in a variety of ways. Health literacy is the capacity for acquisition, processing, understanding of information and basic services for appropriate health decisions. Health literacy is heavily important for breast cancer patients so that therapists can decide on a complex set of decision-making decisions based on diagnosis and treatment when physical and emotional distress. Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women throughout the world. Considering the effect of this disease and its treatment on different dimensions of life, evaluating the level of health literacy of patients in order to improve their health seems useful before any study. Method: This study was conducted with the aim of reviewing the world literature on health literacy and breast cancer. In this systematic study, the terms health literacy and Breath Cancer were searched in the title and abstract of the articles published in internationally recognized scientific databases and all English and related articles were listed. Findings: Then the abstract of the articles was examined and in several stages repeated and unrelated items were excluded from the study. Finally, the final papers were selected for comprehensive review and data extraction. Conclusion: The overall result of this study was that according to the literature reviewed, literacy can have an impact on the prevention of breast cancer and the management of symptoms resulting from the disease.
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Arezo Aliabadian; Ramezan Hassanzadeh
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Objective:The purpose of this research was to elucidate and study the psychometric properties the questionnaire of emotional orientation in the sexual relation. The present study is descriptive with the aim of developing and reviewing properties of the questionnaire of emotional orientation in the sexual ...
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Objective:The purpose of this research was to elucidate and study the psychometric properties the questionnaire of emotional orientation in the sexual relation. The present study is descriptive with the aim of developing and reviewing properties of the questionnaire of emotional orientation in the sexual relation. Method: The statistical population of the study was married women in Babol in 2017.Also, statistical sample includes those referred to Babol counseling centers that among 300 were selected by non-random sampling method. Research tool was Alibadian and Hasanzadeh (2011) questionnaire of emotional orientation in the sexual relation. Data analyzed via confirmatory factor analysis method using Smart PLS software.Result: The results showed that the goodness indicators of fitness of the model in loading the three factors of the emotional orientation questionnaire in the sexual relation showed acceptable values.Conclusion:Questionnaire of emotional orientation in sexual relationships can be used by family therapists and psychologists to measure the emotional orientation of individuals.
sajad pasarpoor; babak vojodi; nastaran atarod
Volume 3, Issue 10 , September 2014, , Pages 80-97
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Objective: Current study was conducted in order to investigate the relationship ofreligious orientation and death attitudes with quality of life and somatizationsymptoms in women.Method: Whole women, lived in Urmia in spring 2012, comprised statistical societyof this study. 140 women, who had been selected ...
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Objective: Current study was conducted in order to investigate the relationship ofreligious orientation and death attitudes with quality of life and somatizationsymptoms in women.Method: Whole women, lived in Urmia in spring 2012, comprised statistical societyof this study. 140 women, who had been selected randomly by multistage clustersampling method, responded orderly to the questionnaires of religious orientation,attitudes toward death, quality of life and somatization symptoms .Collected datawere analyzed by Pearson correlation and regression tests.Results: The results showed that quality of life has a positive correlation with internalreligious orientation and the attitudes of approach acceptance toward death.Somatization symptoms also related positively to the attitudes of avoidance ofdeath and escape acceptance. Furthermore results of regression analyze showedthat 14 percent of women’s life quality variance was explained by internalreligious orientation and the attitudes of avoidance of death. Regression ofsomatization symptoms based on religious orientation and attitudes about deathwas not significant.Conclusion: This results reveal religious and spiritual bases and consequently thedeath attitudes as one of the effective variables on the women quality of life andtheir health.
I davoudi; F nargesi; M mehrabi honarmand
Volume 1, Issue 3 , February 2013, , Pages 30-38
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چکیده هدف: در این پژوهش هدف بررسی تفاوت های جنسیتی در اضطراب سلامتی و باورهای ناکارآمد مرتبط با آن با کنترل متغیر سن بود. روش: نمونه پژوهش شامل 300 معلم مقطع ابتدایی (150 مرد ...
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چکیده هدف: در این پژوهش هدف بررسی تفاوت های جنسیتی در اضطراب سلامتی و باورهای ناکارآمد مرتبط با آن با کنترل متغیر سن بود. روش: نمونه پژوهش شامل 300 معلم مقطع ابتدایی (150 مرد و 150 زن) در شهر اندیمشک بود که پرسشنامه اضطراب سلامتی و شناخت هایی درباره ی بدن و سلامتی (کابا) را تکمیل کردند. طرح تحقیق از نوع علی- مقایسه ای است و جهت آزمون فرضیه ها از تحلیل کواریانس چند متغیری استفاده شد. یافتهها: یافته ها بیانگر این بود که بین زنان و مردان در اضطراب سلامتی (018/0 p= ,6/5f=) تفاوت معنی داری وجود دارد. زنان بیشتر از مردان دچار اضطراب سلامتی بوده و همچنین باور ناکارآمد مربوط به احساس های خودمختار و ضعف بدنی در مردان بیشتر از زنان بود. اما تفاوت معنی داری در باورهای ناکارآمد مربوط به حیطه های تعبیر فاجعه آمیز شکایات بدنی، غیرقابل تحمل بودن شکایات بدنی و عادت های سلامتی مشاهده نگردید. نتیجهگیری: زنان بیش از مردان در معرض اضطراب سلامتی هستند و دو جنس باورهای ناکارآمد متفاوتی در زمینه سلامتی دارند.
