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
