Aryan Rezai; Akram Dehghani; Sayed Abbas Haghayegh
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Objective: Weight loss and its maintenance were one of the most important goals of therapists in the field of treating chronic obesity in children due to the inadequacies of current treatments. Thus, the researchers of this study decided to test the effect of their play therapy package based on Hall ...
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Objective: Weight loss and its maintenance were one of the most important goals of therapists in the field of treating chronic obesity in children due to the inadequacies of current treatments. Thus, the researchers of this study decided to test the effect of their play therapy package based on Hall and Fong's temporal self-regulation theory in this regard. Method: By implementing a semi-experimental research design with pre-test, post-test and follow-up at 2-month intervals on a convenience sample from the population of the Iranian Health Centers-Isfahan City, including 45 parent-obese child pairs randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups, at the same time as conducting family-based behavioral intervention on both groups, members of the experimental group also received play therapy package training. Results: By analyzing the data of children's body mass index (measured by dividing the weight measured in kilograms on a scale by the square of the height measured in meters with a stadiometer) in three sections in the form of pre-test, post-test and follow-up by one-way covariance method, significant difference between the experimental group (combined play therapy method with family-based behavioral intervention method) and the control group (only family-based behavioral intervention method) in both post-test stages (F(42,1)=2188.34, P<0.001, ŋ2=0.98) and follow-up (F(42,1)=1036.61, P<0.001, ŋ2=0.96) was observed which according to the observed strong size effect indicates the effectiveness of the combined method was much better than using the family-based behavioral intervention method alone on weight loss and maintenance. Conclusion: The interpretation of the results indicates the effectiveness of adding the training package designed based on Hall and Fong's temporal self-regulation theory to strengthen the three executive functions of working memory,response inhibition, and cognitive flexibility to the usual family-based behavioral intervention as the best method available in the field of reducing and maintaining weight of children. In such a way that this combined method according to restrictions set in the field of using medical treatments (including drug therapy and surgery) for children under 12 years of age, could be considered as a step in the field of designing complementary methods, which by addressing other causes of chronic obesity including the neurological causes and the psychological structures attributed to it, including the executive functions, has been able to be effective with minimal side effects on the process of treating chronic obesity. The primary step that taking other steps in the direction of improvement and expansion of the designed play therapy package was subject to its retesting and application in other societies, and in comparison, with other methods by interested researchers.
shahnaz gili; vahid sadeghi zavareh; Sayed Abbas Haghayegh; alireza Alizadeh ghavidel; hassan rezayi jamalloi
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Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of Emotion-focused therapy and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on anxiety and depression in heart patients in Tehran in 2019. Method: The research method is semi-experimental with a pretest-posttest design (three groups) with two ...
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Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of Emotion-focused therapy and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on anxiety and depression in heart patients in Tehran in 2019. Method: The research method is semi-experimental with a pretest-posttest design (three groups) with two experimental groups and one control group. The statistical population of the study consisted of all cardiac patients in Tehran, among whom 45 were selected by available sampling method and randomly assigned in two experimental groups and one control group (15 people in each group). The Emotion-focused therapy experiment group was trained in nine 60-minute sessions and the Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation group received training during five 20-minute sessions, and the control group remained on the waiting list. The tools used in the present study included depression (Beck, Steer & Brown, 1996), and anxiety (Beck, Epstein, Brown & Esther, 1988) questionnaires, which were administered in two stages of pre-test and post-test. The analysis of data obtained from the implementation of the questionnaires were performed through SPSS-24 software in two descriptive and inferential sections (analysis of covariance). Findings: The findings showed that both interventions used in this study could significantly decrease the anxiety and depression of heart patients (p <0.05), with a greater effect of emotion- focused therapy on anxiety and depression compared to Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation. In addition, no significant difference was observed in the posttest and follow up phases (p <0.05), which indicates the stability of intervention changes. Conclusion: According to the results of this study, the treatment of Emotion-focused therapy and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation are effective interventions in reducing anxiety and depression in heart patients, but Emotion-focused therapy was more effective.
Zahra Azimi; Sayed Abbas Haghayegh; Mahdi Norouzi
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Objective: State-trait anxiety is one of the most important anxiety distributions (as an important factor in psychosomatic diseases). The purpose of this study was to investigate the moderating role of sleep quality in the relationship between state-trait anxiety with severity of symptoms in patients ...
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Objective: State-trait anxiety is one of the most important anxiety distributions (as an important factor in psychosomatic diseases). The purpose of this study was to investigate the moderating role of sleep quality in the relationship between state-trait anxiety with severity of symptoms in patients with a migraine headache diagnosis. Methods: The study design is correlation. The study population includes all patients with migraine headache diagnosis will be referred to Neurological medical centers of Isfahan in 2018 which among those, 80 subjects will select by convenient sampling and they were assessed through Questionnaires of Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (Buysse, 1989), State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (Spielberger, 1983) and Severity of Migraine Symptoms (Najjarian, 1976). Data were analyzed by Hayes Process Software. Findings: The results showed that sleep quality has a significant moderating role in the relationship between state-trait anxiety with severity of migraine symptoms in the total sample, although the amount of this moderating in state anxiety has been more than trait anxiety (P
Ali Reza Zarei; Sayed Abbas Haghayegh
Volume 5, Issue 20 , January 2017, , Pages 137-151
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Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between defense mechanisms and adaptation strategies on psychological well-being of patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in Shiraz. Method: The design was a correlative study. Samples of 80 patients aged ...
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Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between defense mechanisms and adaptation strategies on psychological well-being of patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in Shiraz. Method: The design was a correlative study. Samples of 80 patients aged 18 to 40 years, at least primary school level and also in the final stages of life were selected. This study using psychological well-being questionnaires, defense mechanisms and coping strategies were evaluated. For data analysis, stepwise regression and correlation coefficient were used. Results: Consistent with observations made its acceptance of psychological well-being (r=0/345) And purposeful life (r=0/342 ) With dimensions of immature defense mechanisms and psychological well-being positive relations with others (r=0/441 ) dominance on environmental (r=0/ 265 )), Purpose in Life (r=0/375 ) And personal development (r=0/290) With neurotic defense mechanisms and psychological well-being of their adoption (0/226), Positive relations with others (0/475.), Environmental mastery (r=0/365 ), purpose in life (r=0/461.) and personal development (r=0/349 ) with no significant relationship has developed defense mechanisms and the relationship between psychological well-being does not have any emotion-focused strategies and self-acceptance, but the psychological well-being (r=0/264) And positive relations with others (r=0/367 ) And Environmental mastery (r=0/445 ) And purposeful life (r= 0/473 ) and personal development (0/383) there is no significant relationship with task-oriented strategy(P Conclusion: The results of the data shows that developed defense mechanisms and emotion-focused coping and problem-oriented with psychological well-being of people with positive relationship to Acquired Immune deficiency syndrome
