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seyedeh asma hosseini; Mohadeseh Dehghani; Amin Rafiepoor; Zahra mozafari vanani
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Objective: The Covid-19 virus changes over time and is still present in the world. Therefore, the rate of acceptance of the vaccine and the factors affecting it should be investigated. The aim of this study was to determine the mediating role of personality traits in the relationship between the acceptance ...
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Objective: The Covid-19 virus changes over time and is still present in the world. Therefore, the rate of acceptance of the vaccine and the factors affecting it should be investigated. The aim of this study was to determine the mediating role of personality traits in the relationship between the acceptance rate of corona vaccine and anxiety, depression and stress during the covid-19 pandemic. Method: The current research was descriptive-correlation and structural equation modeling. The statistical population included all adults aged 18 to 60 in Tehran, of which 388 (81 men and 257 women) were selected by the simple random method. To collect data, Hexaco short questionnaire, depression, anxiety and stress questionnaire and the knowledge, attitude, application and concerns questionnaire of the Covid-19 vaccine were used. Then the data were analyzed with SPSS (version 24) and AMOSE (version 24) software. Results: The findings showed that anxiety, depression, and stress have an inverse and significant effect on vaccine resistance or acceptance (β=0.15 and P=0.013). This finding was different from the results of some other researches. It was expected that the acceptance rate of the vaccine would increase with the increase of fear, anxiety and stress. However, in our study it decreased. On the other hand, the results of this research showed that anxiety, depression and stress have a positive and significant effect on personality traits (β=0.41 and P<0.001). Also, the resistance or acceptance of the Covid-19 vaccine was related to anxiety, depression, and stress, and this relationship was significant and inverse and consistent with the results of other studies. Another finding of this research indicated the existence of a relationship between personality traits and vaccine resistance or acceptance (β=0.13 and P=0.021), the results of which were not consistent with some other studies. Conclusion: Generally, the results indicate that the variable of personality traits can play a mediating role (P=0.038) in relation to anxiety, depression, stress resistance or vaccine acceptance. In fact, some personality traits such as extroversion, agreeableness, openness to experience and conscientiousness had less anxiety and stress. Therefore, they managed themselves better during the Covid-19 crisis. On the other hand, people who had higher anxiety and stress were more biased towards information in crisis situations and resisted accepting the Covid-19 vaccine. However, resistance to accepting the Covid-19 vaccine was different in different people. In fact, according to this research, people who had higher stress, anxiety and depression usually had to resist accepting the Covid-19 vaccine. But if they were part of agreeable and negative excitable personality traits, they would show willingness to receive the Covid-19 vaccine. On the other hand, extroverts, who were expected to be willing to accept the Covid-19 vaccine, resisted accepting it.
afsaneh moradi; Samireh Karimi; elham hessami; Saeid Mozafari
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Objective: During the outbreak of coronavirus, nurses and staff in Covid-19-related departments, which are at the forefront of the fight against pandemics, were exposed to a wide range of psychosocial stressors. The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of five personality factors in ...
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Objective: During the outbreak of coronavirus, nurses and staff in Covid-19-related departments, which are at the forefront of the fight against pandemics, were exposed to a wide range of psychosocial stressors. The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of five personality factors in the relationship between perceived vulnerability to the disease and the experience of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms among health-care providers for patient with Covid-19. Method: The present study is a descriptive-correlational applied research. The study population consisted of the treatment staff of patients with Covid-19 working in hospitals in Tehran in June and July 2021, from which 677 people were selected as an available sample. The research instruments include a short form of NEO Personality Five-Factor Questionnaire, Mississippi Traumatic Stress Disorder Citizenship Scale, and Perceived Vulnerability Questionnaire was completed online by care staff. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation method and structural equation analysis using Amos and SPSS software. Findings: The results indicate that the indirect effect of perceived vulnerability on the experience of PTSD symptoms is mediated by neuroticism and agreeableness. Conclusion: Screening and identifying people with high neuroticism traits and low agreeableness in the treatment staff and considering interventions to modify these personality traits can be effective in preventing PTSD.
Sedigheh Rezaei Dehnavi; faezeh Arashk; Azadeh Semsar Kazerouni
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Objective: Stigma measuring instruments have been developed for infectious and health-threatening diseases such as AIDS. There are no specific measuring instruments for measuring public stigma related to Covid-19. Method: The present study was a quantitative normalization study. A total of 322 people ...
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Objective: Stigma measuring instruments have been developed for infectious and health-threatening diseases such as AIDS. There are no specific measuring instruments for measuring public stigma related to Covid-19. Method: The present study was a quantitative normalization study. A total of 322 people who were over 18 years old, living in Isfahan city and satisfied with the cooperation, participated in the study through Internet calling. To develop the scale, in-depth interviews were conducted with 40 participants (20 without and 20 with a history of corona-virus artery disease). Based on the content analysis of the interviews and the theory of Phelan and Link (2013), the initial questionnaire was designed with 20 items. Face validity, content validity index, and construct validity were used for assessing validity. Cronbach's alpha internal consistency coefficient was used to evaluate the reliability. Findings: The final form of the questionnaire with 12 items and three factors, including stereotypes, negative feelings, and avoidance behaviors, has the appropriate face validity, content validity index, and structure validity. Cronbach's alpha coefficient above 0.7 indicates the reliability of this questionnaire. Conclusion: The public stigma Covid-19 questionnaire has good validity and reliability and can be used as a scientific and valid tool in measuring coronavirus stigma.
Farhad Tanhaye Reshvanloo; Hossein Kareshki; Zahra Asgari
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Objective: The purpose of present study was to evaluate the motivational model for predicting adherence to the measures in the Covid-19 pandemic. Method: In a descriptive-correlational design, 306 people (204 females, 102 males) from the community sample older than 18 years were selected by convenience ...
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Objective: The purpose of present study was to evaluate the motivational model for predicting adherence to the measures in the Covid-19 pandemic. Method: In a descriptive-correlational design, 306 people (204 females, 102 males) from the community sample older than 18 years were selected by convenience sampling method. Data were collected with Adherence to governmental measures survey, Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Frustration Scale, Feelings of uncertainty and threat scale, Motivation to adhere to governmental measures scale, and Kessler Psychological Distress Scale. Data were analyzed with structural equation modeling based on the partial least squares approach. Findings: Results showed that motivation has a mediating role in relation to needs satisfaction with distress, feelings of uncertainty and threat and adherence to governmental measures. Psychological distress and feelings of uncertainty and threat also played a negative mediating role in the needs frustration and adherence to governmental measures. Other results showed that psychological needs, motivation, distress, and feelings of uncertainty and threat explain 33% of the adherence to governmental measures variance. Conclusion: It seems that the adherence to governmental measures in the Covid-19 pandemic is influenced by motivational and emotional factors. Accordingly, giving the opportunity to participate in related decisions and provide feedback systems seems to be effective in complying with adherence to governmental measures in order to increase the autonomy and competence and reduce stress.
seyed masoud mohsenalhosseini; fahimeh bahonar; mohammad hassan asayesh
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Objective: Health care workers are at the forefront of the fight against Covid-19 disease. The purpose of this study was to identify the cognitive reactions of physicians who have recovered from Covid-19 disease. Method: In the present study, the phenomenological method was used. The population of this ...
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Objective: Health care workers are at the forefront of the fight against Covid-19 disease. The purpose of this study was to identify the cognitive reactions of physicians who have recovered from Covid-19 disease. Method: In the present study, the phenomenological method was used. The population of this study included physicians recovering from Covid-19 disease in Yazd city. 13 people were selected by purposive sampling and interviewed unstructured and in-depth. In orde to analyze the data, Colaizzi method was used. Findings: Data analysis led to the production of 2 main themes, 12 sub-themes and 40 basic concepts. The first theme was "Adaptive Cognitive Reactions." Adaptive cognitive reactions included a set of reactions that included sub-themes: 1- sublime thought, 2- self-compassion, 3- Transcending the self, 4- cognitive ability, and 5- triumphant self-belief. The second major theme was "Mmaladaptive Cognitive Reactions." Mmaladaptive cognitive reactions included a set of reactions that were sub-themes: 1- Cognitive distortions, 2- Rumination, 3- Doubt, 4- Distrust, 5- Blame, 6- Mental dissatisfaction 7- Mental confusion. Conclusion: Overall, the results of this study showed that the experience of patients with Covid-19 has a wide range of adaptive cognitive reactions and maladaptive cognitive reactions, and these reactions are sometimes similar and in some reactions different. This research is an approach to continue the study of psychological reactions and the development of intervention protocols in this field.
moslem asli azad; tahereh farhadi; saeideh khaki
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Objective: Covid-19 can lead to serious damages to the patients’ psychological, cognitive and emotional processes in addition to physiologic damages. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the purpose of investigating the efficiency of online reality therapy on perceived stress and experiential ...
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Objective: Covid-19 can lead to serious damages to the patients’ psychological, cognitive and emotional processes in addition to physiologic damages. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the purpose of investigating the efficiency of online reality therapy on perceived stress and experiential avoidance in Covid-19-improved patients. Method: It was a quasi-experimental study with pretest, posttest and control group design. The statistical population of the study included Covid-19-improved patients in the city of Isfahan in the summer of 2020. 24 Covid-19-improved patients were selected through snowball sampling method and they were randomly replaced into experimental and control groups (each group of 12 patients). The experimental group received ten seventy-five-minute sessions of online reality therapy (Glasser, 2013) during a month. The applied questionnaires in the current study included perceived stress questionnaire (Cohen, et.al, 1983) and experiential avoidance questionnaire (Bond, et.al, 2011). The data from the study were analyzed through ANCOVA method. Findings: The results showed that online reality therapy had significant effect on the perceived stress and experiential avoidance in Covid-19-improved patients (p<0.001) and succeeded in the decrease of their perceived stress and experiential avoidance. Conclusion: According to the findings of the present study it can be concluded that online reality therapy can be applied as an efficient therapy to decrease perceived stress and experiential avoidance in Covid-19-improved patients through employing techniques such focusing on the present time, avoiding excessive criticism and training accountability.
Mahnaz Aliakbari Dehkordi; Tayebe Mohtashami; MASOMEH TadrisI Tabrizi
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Objective: considering the current coronavirus disease pandemic, all experts and people know that the best way to prevent it is to stay at home. In this regard, staying at home requires a new lifestyle, and if people do not follow the principals of this new lifestyle, it may reduce their life quality. ...
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Objective: considering the current coronavirus disease pandemic, all experts and people know that the best way to prevent it is to stay at home. In this regard, staying at home requires a new lifestyle, and if people do not follow the principals of this new lifestyle, it may reduce their life quality. Dealing with this issue, this study is to develop, validity and validated lifestyle scale during coronavirus disease pandemic. Method: The present study was a descriptive-correlational study and a researcher-made questionnaire was administered to 350 (200 women & 150 Men) residents of Tehran through online recall. Data were analyzed using Cronbach's alpha and exploratory factor analysis using SPSS-24. Findings: The results showed that based on reliability coefficient of the questionnaire and Cronbach's alpha, reliability of the whole scale (α = 0.77) and each of the factors healthy lifestyle (α = 0.73) and happy lifestyle (α = 0.81) were desirable. In addition, the results of exploratory factor analysis indicated the existence of two factors of healthy lifestyle and happy lifestyle, which explained of 34.6% of the total variance. The standard scores were calculated and the range of scores of the questionnaire factors and total score was divided into three domains: mild, moderate, and severe. Conclusion: This study showed that the designed tool has the required adequacy and can be used in future research. This scale has acceptable reliability and validity to measure this construct in Iranian samples.