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Manizhe Haddadi Barzoki; azra zebardast; sajjad rezaei
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Objective: Obesity and overweight impose significant health care costs, while being preventable and treatable. Prevention of obesity is the best treatment strategy. Research results show that many internal and external factors can be considered as obstacles to obesity prevention or weight loss. This ...
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Objective: Obesity and overweight impose significant health care costs, while being preventable and treatable. Prevention of obesity is the best treatment strategy. Research results show that many internal and external factors can be considered as obstacles to obesity prevention or weight loss. This study was conducted with the aim of investigating the mediating role of cognitive errors in the relationship between socio-cultural pressure and fear of body image in obese women without a history of weight loss. Method: The descriptive cross-sectional research design was of the correlation type, which was carried out with 200 obese women aged 30 to 55 without a history of weight loss, using available sampling method from the cities of Tehran, Rasht and Kashan, in the second half of 2012. To measure, body mass index (BMI) was used and Subjects answered demographic questionnaires, Littleton's fear of body image (BICI), perceived cultural-social pressure (PSPS) and Ellis' cognitive errors (CDQ). Data analysis was done with SPSS and Amos software version 22. Results: The average and standard deviation of the variables according to the age group of 46 to 50 years, the most cognitive error, the most average fear of body image and cultural-social pressure has been assigned to itself. These estimates are true in working women compared to housewives and also in married women compared to single women. The findings showed a relationship between cultural-social pressure and fear of body image (p<0.05, r=0.38), cognitive errors and fear of body image (p<0.05, r=0.50) and cultural-social pressure and cognitive errors (p<0.05 , r=0.65) there is a significant relationship; One unit of change of cultural-social pressure leads to 0.36 changes in fear of body image, one unit of change in cognitive errors leads to 0.55 changes in body image, and one unit of change in cultural-social pressure leads to 0.66 changes in cognitive errors. The proposed mediation model had a relatively good fit, and the drawn model explained 63% of the variable scores of fear of body image (χ2/df=2.503, RMSEA=0.088, CFI=0.609, PCFI=0.695, IFI=0.730, GFI=0.609). Bootstrap analysis showed that cognitive errors significantly mediate the relationship between socio-cultural pressure scores and fear of body image (95% CI: 0.172 to 0.154). Conclusion: According to the findings, which showed that the mediating role of cognitive errors in the relationship between socio-cultural pressure and body image in obese women without a history of weight loss is significant, cognitive errors such as bipolar thinking and attention bias have the destructive effect of cultural-social pressure to create more fear of body image intensifies in obese women. That is, although cultural-social pressure can be the trigger for weight loss, if there are cognitive errors, instead of the cultural-social pressure being the trigger, it turns it into obstacles. Therefore, it is possible to develop educational programs for obesity therapists and general health policy makers to increase awareness of cognitive errors in order to promote a correct understanding of body image and cultural -social pressure regarding persuasion to reduce or maintain weight loss.
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Farahnaz Javanmard; azra zebardast; Masoume Maleki Pirbazari
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Objective: Pregnancy is associated with physical and emotional changes, and the special conditions of Covid-19 can increase the level of health anxiety. The present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of short-term solution-oriented treatment on vaccine injection attitude and health ...
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Objective: Pregnancy is associated with physical and emotional changes, and the special conditions of Covid-19 can increase the level of health anxiety. The present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of short-term solution-oriented treatment on vaccine injection attitude and health anxiety in pregnant women during the Covid-19 pandemic. Method: The design of the current research was a quasi-experimental type of pre-test and post-test. The statistical sample consisted of 30 pregnant women referring to the Center Integratedated HealthcServicesices in Siahkal County, who were selected purposefully and non-randomly, and was placed in groups of 15 people, the experimental and the control, by random allocation, signed to health anxiety questionnaires (Salkosix and Warwick, 1989) and vaccine attitude (Rahmanian et al., 2019) answered voluntarily. The experimental group received short-term solution-oriented therapy (De Sahzer et al., 2006) in 5 sessions, and the control group did not receive any intervention. The data were analyzed by analysis of covariance. Results: The findings showed that short-term solution-oriented treatment has an effect on vaccine injection attitude and health anxiety in pregnant women during the Covid-19 pandemic (P<0.05). So that the average vaccine injection attitude in the experimental group increased from 27 to 48 in the post-test phase and the average health anxiety decreased from 52 to 32 in pregnant women. Based on the results presented about the descriptive indicators and the difference between the two test and control groups in the post-test of these indicators, it can be said that the short-term solution-oriented treatment reduces health anxiety (49%) and improves vaccine injection attitude (71%) has a significant effect in pregnant women during the Covid-19 pandemic. Conclusion: Based on the educational content in this approach, instead of focusing on the problems that will arise from the hypothetical consequences of the Covid-19 vaccine, pregnant women should find a way by examining the evidence and the percentage of benefits and losses of inappropriate solutions such as avoiding the injection of the vaccine. They looked carefully for a solution to cure and eradicate this viral disease and in this way they have changed their attitude towards the Covid-19 vaccine. Therefore, the solution-oriented treatment was guided based on the solution of the elimination of covid-19 and the immunization of people through the change of attitude and hope for the health of the mother and the fetus. This approach in pregnant women focused on highlighting the capabilities and successes of vaccination and creating health in mothers and fetuses during the treatment process..Based on the obtained results, it can be said that in critical situations, with the use of solution-oriented and short-term interventions, it is possible to increase the attitude of health promotion through the injection of the Covid-19 vaccine in pregnant women and reduce their health anxiety.
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.
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
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azra zebardast; mohamad ali besharat; hadi bahrami ahsan
Volume 4, Issue 15 , October 2015, , Pages 49-74
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Objective: Interpersonal problems and emotional regulation skills in studies as psychological differences of obese and overweight women has been reviewed and approved. The present study compared the efficacy between interpersonal therapy and emotional management of weight loss in obese and overweight ...
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Objective: Interpersonal problems and emotional regulation skills in studies as psychological differences of obese and overweight women has been reviewed and approved. The present study compared the efficacy between interpersonal therapy and emotional management of weight loss in obese and overweight women. Method: The method of this research is semi-experimental. 80 women with a BMI over 24/9 participated in this study. Asked subjects to complete Interpersonal Problems (IPP-127, Horovitz, et al, 1988) and emotional regulation Questioners (ERSQ-27, Berking & znoj, 2008). The two obese and overweight groups were intervened during 6 months with interpersonal relationships and emotional management. At the end of treatment, were investigated weight losses as BMI. Findings: result showed that IPT and ITEC are different on weight loss in obese and overweight women. Obese women with IPT compared obese with ITEC loss weight greater. While weight loss in overweight women with ITEC compared overweight with IPT was not significant. Conclusion: Based in the findings, we conclude that IPT and ITEC are an effective treatment for weight loss in obese and overweight women.
