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sajjad basharpoor; SHole Amani; Mohamad Narimani; Fazele Heidari
Volume 7, Issue 25 , June 2018, , Pages 133-145
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Objective: Physiological signs of stress can account to a preventive factor in the treatment of cancer by weaken the immune system. This study conducted in order to investigate the effectiveness of narrative exposure therapy on improving of stress physiological indexes in women with cancer.Method: This ...
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Objective: Physiological signs of stress can account to a preventive factor in the treatment of cancer by weaken the immune system. This study conducted in order to investigate the effectiveness of narrative exposure therapy on improving of stress physiological indexes in women with cancer.Method: This study is a quasi-experimental study with pretest, posttest along with control group. The statistical population of this study included all female cancer patients, hospitalized in the summer of 1395 in Radiology and Oncology wards of Motahari hospital of Foolad Shahr city. The thirty person from these patients selected by purposive sampling and randomly replaced into two groups (n = 15) and control (n = 15). The biofeedback device, Manufactured by Ravan Tajhiz Company is used to collect data on the pre-test and post-test. Experimental group were received 6 sessions of 90 minutes of Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET). Collected data was analyzed by MANCOVA test using SPSS18 software. Result: there were significant differences between two groups at the variables of the skin sweating (P<0/002), S=skin temperature (0/001) and heart rate (P<001). Conclusion: The results suggest that NET could be a useful treatment for reduction of the physiological symptoms of stress in cancer patients.
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.
