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Mahnaz Aliakbari Dehkordi
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Objective: Sexual health is recognized as one of the important components of human rights in the international community and every human has the right to achieve the highest level of sexual health. Most of the diseases and disorders all over the world are caused by not paying enough attention to sexual ...
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Objective: Sexual health is recognized as one of the important components of human rights in the international community and every human has the right to achieve the highest level of sexual health. Most of the diseases and disorders all over the world are caused by not paying enough attention to sexual health. In this regard, one of the important and effective actions is the design and construction of authentic and localized tools. One of reasons that highlight the applied necessity of this research is the application of this instrument by Iranian couple therapists for detection of clients` strengths and weakness regarding to sexual-marital dimensions. Detection of these dimensions by this scale pave the way for interventional researches in the field of improvement of Iranian marital relationships. Therefore, it is complete necessary to investigate sexual issues even without existence of special disorder in sexual relationships for promotion of quality of couples relationship and prevention of occurrence of disorder in the field of sexual and marital issues. Thus, this study was designed to investigate the construction, validation and standardization of Iranian Sexual-Marital Relationships Quality Scale. Method: The present study was a descriptive correlational study. After scale construction, this research investigated in two separate studies. Statistical population was composed of all volunteer and convenient couples resident in Tehran city. Enter circumstances to sample was included passing at least on year of marital life, participants use of vaginal intercourse in sexual relations, no infection to chronic diseases including diabetes, to be literate, without drug abuse, no existence of acute mental problems and receiving psychological treatments and presenting written consent. Designing and constructing of research was done in three phases. In the first phase, after determining and designing scale subject, definitions of it`s fields represented and sexual-marital relationships investigated. According to theoretical studies and internal and external literature reviews, quality of sextual relations were defined into eight components. In the second phase, according to theoretical bases and professions comments, ultimately 90 items questionnaire was designed and give to experts. In order to investigate of scale content validity, the list of items made available to psychologists and sexual psychologists specialists. Items that received 80% specialists confirmation, remained in list and other items that refused or don`t confirm were deleted. In the third phase, scale conducted on the number of married students and some items were deleted because of weak correlation coefficient with other items. Finally, final scale with 40 items and five-point Likert scale constructed and investigated for measuring quality of sexual-marital in Iranian couples population. Data were analyzed using Cronbach's alpha, exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis with the help of SPSS-22 and LISREL-8.5 software. Results: In the first study, average age of women and men was respectively 34/26 and 40/75 and average length of marriage was 12 years. In the second study, average age of women and men was respectively 34/97 and 36/29 and length of marriage was 7/5 years. Most of participants in every two studies had Bachelor`s degree and most of women were housekeeper and most of men had freelance job. The results showed that the reliability coefficient of the questionnaire using Cronbach's alpha has a desirable fit for the whole scale and each of the factors. In addition, exploratory factor analysis revealed six factors including acquaintance to anatomy and sexual cycles, effective problem solving and communication, dysfunctional beliefs and negative self-talk, emotional-sexual discourse and intimacy, skills in touching non-sexual areas and improving sexual skills that altogether explained 54.6% of the total variance. Confirmatory factor analysis showed an acceptable fitness in determining the factors. Conclusion: The present study showed that the instrument designed in Iranian samples has sufficient reliability, validity and fitness. Therefore, it is recommended that this instrument can be used to measure the quality of sexual-marital relationships in researches and therapeutic interventions.
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Mojgan Sepah Mansour; Fatemeh Bagheri
Volume 6, Issue 22 , September 2017, , Pages 131-144
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Introduction: Health promoting lifestyle is one of the health criteria. Various factors are involved in the implementation of this lifestyle .the current study was conducted in order to determine the role of health locus of control and attachment style in predicting health promoting lifestyle. ...
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Introduction: Health promoting lifestyle is one of the health criteria. Various factors are involved in the implementation of this lifestyle .the current study was conducted in order to determine the role of health locus of control and attachment style in predicting health promoting lifestyle. Methods :this research was a descriptive – correlational study . the sample was consist of 215 student of behshahr Payame noor university that was selected according to available sampling. Health Promoting Lifestyle Profile(HPLP), multidimensional health locus of control(MHLC), - Adult Attachment Style(AAS),were used for collecting of data. Data were analyzed using correlation and stepwise regression analysis method.Results:The study showed a significant relationship between internal health locus of control (r = ./38), secure attachment styles(r=./26) and chance health locus of control (r=-./18), with health promoting lifestyle. Final finding of this research show that internal health locus of control had the greatest power to predict health promoting lifestyle(β=./35). Conclusion: The results of this study showed that health locus of control and attachment style are proper predictors for psychological well-being. Therefore is important development positive beliefs about health and notification people of the attachment style.
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sara zandieh; Mohsen Dehghani; Farhad Asarzadegan
Volume 5, Issue 19 , October 2016, , Pages 45-56
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Objective: The aim of this study was to compare and evaluate family functioning in families with a member suffering from headache and families without this situation. Methods: The participants in this study were 124 patients who were suffering from recurring headaches and chronic headaches, 69 patients ...
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Objective: The aim of this study was to compare and evaluate family functioning in families with a member suffering from headache and families without this situation. Methods: The participants in this study were 124 patients who were suffering from recurring headaches and chronic headaches, 69 patients had chronic headache and 55 patients suffering from recurring headaches. In the control group, there was 53 individuals had not a history of severe headaches. Participants of this study who chose in neurology clinics was sampled as in access participants. They complete demographic questionnaire and Family Assessment Device (FAD), and MANOVA (multivariate analysis of variance) test performed for this goal. Results showed that there was significant difference between chronic headache, non-chronic headache, and control group (p<0.01). Otherwise, there was significant difference between these groups in FAD's subscales. Findings: Games-Howell post hoc test indicated patients with chronic headache had poorer family function in comparison to control group. Conclusion: We can conclude that families of headache patients in particular chronic headache, have dysfunctional family and we should consider the role of family in consolidation and deterioration of headaches more than past. Off course giving attention to family factors could be help us in understanding this complex disorder
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M Nanegh; mehravar momeni javid; Simin Hosseinian
Volume 4, Issue 16 , October 2015, , Pages 43-58
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Objective: Nowadays family as an important social factor that effects chronic pain is being considered by researchers. Family is an effective environment in physical and mental health of people that provides the necessary conditions for development and achieve physical, mental and social balance. Methods: ...
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Objective: Nowadays family as an important social factor that effects chronic pain is being considered by researchers. Family is an effective environment in physical and mental health of people that provides the necessary conditions for development and achieve physical, mental and social balance. Methods: Family provides this conditions through a series of common actions which named family function. The aim of present study was to exam the contribution of dimensions of family function in fear of movement at patients with musculoskeletal chronic pain selected randomly. Family Assessment Device (FAD) and TAMPA questionnaire for assessing fear of movement is completed by participants. Results: It was found that there was a relation with family function dimensions and fear of movement variables and this relation was direct and among family function dimensions, problem solving, affective involvement, and affective responsiveness. Conclusion: Communication were the most related dimensions with fear of movement and problem solving is the most related one (9.1).
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bahman bahmani; maedeh naghiyaee; ali ghanbari motlagh; aida dehkhoda; fahime alimohamadi; Bijhan Khorasani
Volume 4, Issue 14 , May 2015, , Pages 5-17
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Objective: Marital satisfaction is one of important consequences of a good couple relationships and is a main indicator for evaluation of its functionality. This study was conducted to evaluate effect of diagnosis and medical treatments of breast cancer on marital satisfaction of women, by comparing ...
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Objective: Marital satisfaction is one of important consequences of a good couple relationships and is a main indicator for evaluation of its functionality. This study was conducted to evaluate effect of diagnosis and medical treatments of breast cancer on marital satisfaction of women, by comparing to the general population. Method: In this descriptive-comparative study, 50 women with breast cancer who had referred to the department of Radiotherapy in Imam Hussein Hospital for complementary therapies and 50 women of general population were selected based on using purposive sampling, and then answered to the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (Spaneir 1976). The data were processed through Sciences Statistical Package for the Social (SPSS 19) to calculate independent T test. Findings: Findings indicate significant deference (sig=0/001) between marital satisfaction of two groups and lower marital satisfaction of breast cancer. Conclusion: According to the finding of this study and with regarding of finding reported by other related studies, it seems that considering marital satisfaction during early stages of diagnosis and medical treatments is a mental health necessity.
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Volume 4, Issue 14 , May 2015, , Pages 79-97
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Objective: The main objective of this study was the role of rumination on psychological well-being and anxiety the spouses' cancer patients in the Qom province. Method: The research method was causal-comparative, 147 persons of spouses' cancer patients using random sampling method selected. Collected ...
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Objective: The main objective of this study was the role of rumination on psychological well-being and anxiety the spouses' cancer patients in the Qom province. Method: The research method was causal-comparative, 147 persons of spouses' cancer patients using random sampling method selected. Collected in this study three questionnaires: rumination Nolen-Hoksema and psychological well-being (Mc Cummins, 2006) and anxiety beck.Data were calculated from the correlation matrix then relationship between these variables derived through series of multiple regression analysis(Using SPSS software). Results: The results showed that there was a Significant negative relation between rumination and psychological well-being a Significant positive relationship exists between rumination and anxiety, and predictor Variable (rumination) are able to predict feed changes of psychological well-being and anxiety Variable. Conclusion: Study results suggest that low psychological well-being of spouses of patients with cancer. Therefore the mental needs of cancer patients Essential component in the successful treatment of patients. Keywords: rumination, psychological well-being, anxiety.
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Mahmood Ekrami; Aazam Mirhaj
Volume 4, Issue 14 , May 2015, , Pages 98-112
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Aim: The aim of this study was to compare the general health and Self-esteem Status Of the aged women trained in Iran Alzheimer's Association and Other.Method: Forty aged women were selected and divided into 2 groups via matched pair design. One group (n=20) was trained in Iran Alzheimer's Association ...
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Aim: The aim of this study was to compare the general health and Self-esteem Status Of the aged women trained in Iran Alzheimer's Association and Other.Method: Forty aged women were selected and divided into 2 groups via matched pair design. One group (n=20) was trained in Iran Alzheimer's Association and (n=20) was not trained and not association. The research method was causal-comparative and the data were collected via Goldberg's general health questionnaire and Cooper Smite self-esteem inventory. Findings: First Result of one-sample t-test showed that general health and self-esteem were high in aged women population. Second Result of independent t-test showed that both variables in the trained group were higher than the ones in the untrained group (Sig. 0/001). Third result with the same linear regression model indicated the relationship between general health and self-esteem of aged women. Fourth result based on matched chi square test, no relationship was seen between self-esteem and general health of aged women with their personal characteristics (education level, marital status, job position, economic situation, health conditions).Conclusion: Aged women training affects their general health and self-esteem.
