Alireza Aghayousefi; Mehdi dehestani; sheida Sharifi Saki
Volume 5, Issue 19 , October 2016, Pages 5-18
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Objective: The aim of the present study was to investigate effectiveness of cognitive – behavioral education on reduction of exhaustion of cancer in women suffering from breast cancer. Method: 30 people were chosen among clients of Imam Khomeini hospital (of Tehran in 1392) and were randomly assigned ...
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Objective: The aim of the present study was to investigate effectiveness of cognitive – behavioral education on reduction of exhaustion of cancer in women suffering from breast cancer. Method: 30 people were chosen among clients of Imam Khomeini hospital (of Tehran in 1392) and were randomly assigned to two groups, experiment group (15 people) and control group. Groups before education and after education responded to cancer fatigue scale (Okuyama, et al., 2000). To analyze the results, the statistical methods of multivariate covariance analysis was conducted. Findings: The results showed, there is a meaningful difference between both groups in components of exhaustion of cancer, so that average of test group had a meaningful reduction after test. Conclusion: In view of changes that cognitive – behavioral education make them in attitude and cognition, it seems that it can have an effective role in making positive imagination in patients suffering from cancer and reducing their fatigue.
Belgheys Roshan
Volume 5, Issue 19 , October 2016, Pages 19-32
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Objective: Discourse disorders of elderly people with Alzheimer’s disease affect their ability to communicate and participate in social interaction. This research compares descriptive discourse among elderlies with Alzheimer’s disease and healthy elderlies. Methods: The method applied in ...
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Objective: Discourse disorders of elderly people with Alzheimer’s disease affect their ability to communicate and participate in social interaction. This research compares descriptive discourse among elderlies with Alzheimer’s disease and healthy elderlies. Methods: The method applied in the present study is ex post facto. Patients with Alzheimer’s disease and the healthy elderlies of Tehran made the research population. To control the effective variables, 20 patients were matched with 22 healthy elderlies on the basis of age, education, gender, and being monolingual or bilingual. Different assessments were done for discourse analysis. U Man Whitney Test was used to analyze the data. Findings: Patients with Alzheimer’s disease, performed weaker than the healthy aged control group in four measures that derived from discourse, which consist of false concepts (p=0.001), endless utterances (P>0.001), false conjunctions (P=0.007), and true conjunctions (P=0.031). Conclusion: Results indicate that discourse of elderlies with Alzheimer’s disease was impaired in structure and content. Increase of false concepts, endless utterances, and false conjunctions, with decline of true conjunctions result in clinical discourse disorder in Alzheimer’s disease.
mohammad babamiri; Abdolkazem Neisi; Nasrin Arshadi; A Zoheiri; afshin salahian
Volume 5, Issue 19 , October 2016, Pages 33-44
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Objective: With respect to increase of job stress and disease that arise from stress in work environments, purpose of this study was investigated the role of effort-reward imbalance and demand-control-support model in accession of psychosomatic symptoms at staff of a company in Ahwaz. Method: The statistical ...
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Objective: With respect to increase of job stress and disease that arise from stress in work environments, purpose of this study was investigated the role of effort-reward imbalance and demand-control-support model in accession of psychosomatic symptoms at staff of a company in Ahwaz. Method: The statistical population comprised of all personnel of a company in Ahwaz who worked at 1392. The sample consisted of 202 employees, who were selected by simple random sampling method and answered to the effort-reward imbalance, job content, and psychosomatic symptoms in nonclinical context questionnaires. Fitness of the proposed model was examined through structural equation modeling (SEM), using SPSS-18 and AMOS-18 software packages. The indirect effects were tested using the bootstrap procedure. Findings: Findings indicated that the proposed model fit the data properly. Also mediating role of overcommitment in effort-reward imbalance model and mediating role of social support in demand-control-support model were confirmed. Conclusion: With respect to the results, variables that apply at this study, special variables that had a mediating role should be regarded at schedules to reduce job ills and increase of staff health.
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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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Nooshin Pishva; Azam Bayanlou; hamid poursharifi; Tahereh Yavari
Volume 5, Issue 19 , October 2016, Pages 57-68
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Objective: The present study was conducted to investigate the relationship between alexithymia and quality of life in patients with clinical pain complain and healthy people. Method: The study sample consists of 200 participants (100 patients with pain complain and 100 healthy people between 18-60 years ...
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Objective: The present study was conducted to investigate the relationship between alexithymia and quality of life in patients with clinical pain complain and healthy people. Method: The study sample consists of 200 participants (100 patients with pain complain and 100 healthy people between 18-60 years old) which were selected at convenience. Data were collected by the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) and the 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF36) and analyzed by independent samples t test, Pearson moment correlation method and Enter regression. Findings: Based on the findings, the two groups of patients and healthy participants were significantly different both in alexithymia scale and quality of life. Also correlation between alexithymia and quality of life in patients was stronger, particularly in difficulties describing emotions and external-oriented thinking subscales. Conclusion Results showed that pain causes strong relationship between alexithymia and quality of life; and the mental aspect of quality of life is more affected by alexithymia than others
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Afsaneh Motovalli Naeni; Mohammad Ali Besharat
Volume 5, Issue 19 , October 2016, Pages 69-84
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Objective: Considering to significance of psychological factors in occurrence of physical pain, the current research has been conducted for the purpose of comparing mindfulness and self-regulation in women with non-cardiac chest pain and normal in Tehran city. Method: The methodology of this research ...
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Objective: Considering to significance of psychological factors in occurrence of physical pain, the current research has been conducted for the purpose of comparing mindfulness and self-regulation in women with non-cardiac chest pain and normal in Tehran city. Method: The methodology of this research was causal-comparative design. Hence, the research sample including 60 non-cardiac chest pain diagnosed women among referrals of two hospitals and cardiac clinics were selected by accessibility sampling Method and the sample of the healthy group also including: 60 women of accompanying the patients and the personnel of mentioned hospitals without any chest-pain who have certain criteria to participate in research. The subjects responded to two questionnaires including mindful attention awareness scale (Brown & Ryan, 2003) and Self-regulation scale (Ibanez & etal). Research data were analyzed by multi variables Covariance analysis test. Findings: The results of analysis demonstrated significant difference in average values of mindfulness, self-regulation and its components contain positive action, controllability, expression of feeling,assertiveness & well-being seeking between women with non-cardiac chest pain and normal (P<0/05). Conclusion: These findings showed that mindfulness and Self-regulation has relationship to non-cardiac chest pain. These results have important implications about these structures and importance of therapeutic interventions for these patents.
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Zoha Saeedi; Hadi Bahrami; Ahmad Alipour
Volume 5, Issue 19 , October 2016, Pages 85-98
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Objective: Many health problems arise directly from people`s behavioral choices, but people often do not behave in ways that could improve their health and extend their lives. The purpose of this study is to explore how self-compassion may play a role in relationship between self-control and health. ...
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Objective: Many health problems arise directly from people`s behavioral choices, but people often do not behave in ways that could improve their health and extend their lives. The purpose of this study is to explore how self-compassion may play a role in relationship between self-control and health. Methods: To do so, 127 students (45 males and 82 females) of the university of Tehran filled four-dimensional measure of health questionnaire and short form of self-compassion and self-control scales. Findings: The results revealed that self-compassion and self-control were correlated positively with health and the result of hierarchical regression analysis showed the moderating effect of self-compassion on the relationship between self-control and health. So that, in the higher level of self-compassion, self-control was a better predictor of health. Conclusion: These results are discussed in terms of the role of self-compassion in the stages of self-control (setting goals, taking action, evaluation and emotion regulation).
Hossein Zarghami; Hossein Mahmoudian
Volume 5, Issue 19 , October 2016, Pages 99-116
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Objective: Loneliness is one of the fundamental problems of old people that many factors are involved in the development or aggravation of that. Any factor, such as migration, that reduces the kinship network, can be considered as effective factor. There are many studies about migration as a common phenomenon ...
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Objective: Loneliness is one of the fundamental problems of old people that many factors are involved in the development or aggravation of that. Any factor, such as migration, that reduces the kinship network, can be considered as effective factor. There are many studies about migration as a common phenomenon in most rural of Iran, but few answered to this question: what are the effects of migration on who left behind in rural areas. Method: we choice the rural areas of Bardaskan, which there are some or most families with some or all migrate children. The method was quantitative and based on designed questionnaire with reference to related standard questionnaires such as UCLA and De Jong Gierveld scale. 357 old residents in villages that at least have a child have chosen and interviewed. The respondents have selected based on multi-stage sampling and combined of cluster and simple random sampling from 9 villages. Findings: The results showed migration of children cause interruption in family network and interaction with its members intensively. Migration have a noticeably effects on loneliness feeling in elders and this persist even when other variables controlled. Other variables consist of overall health, marriage status, financial situation, and gender; have significant effect on loneliness feeling in goal group. Conclusion: These variables, in sum, explain about half of total variances of loneliness feeling.
Nader Hajloo; Osha Barahmand; Ali Adili; Mahnaz Fathi
Volume 5, Issue 19 , October 2016, Pages 117-132
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Objective: Cancer creates a lot of stress and can significantly affect quality of life. The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of stage of disease, illness perceptions, unmet needs and fatigue in predicting the quality of life of patients with cancer. Method: The sample consisted of 120 ...
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Objective: Cancer creates a lot of stress and can significantly affect quality of life. The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of stage of disease, illness perceptions, unmet needs and fatigue in predicting the quality of life of patients with cancer. Method: The sample consisted of 120 hospitalized patients in Tehran's Shohada hospital in 2014 that was selected purposefully. For data collecting, were used the Cancer-Specific Quality of Life Questionnaire (FACT-G), Fatigue in Cancer Therapy (FACT-F), Illness Perception (R-IBQ) and a Short-Form of Questionnaire for Needs of Cancer patients (SCNS -SF34). Multiple regressions was used to analyze the data. Findings: The general regression model showed significant role of disease stage, illness perception, unmet needs and fatigue in predicting the life quality of patients (p<0/01). Conclusion: In addition to providing physical care, attention to the psychological component in the lives of cancer patients to improve quality of life, will be important.
