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Elahe Golrang; Qamar Kiani; Afsaneh Sobhi
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Background: Today, media literacy and reflective thinking are emphasized as an important preventive strategy against drug abuse. Therefore, the present study aimed to explore how spiritual health mediates the relationship between media literacy and reflective thinking in lowering addiction risk among ...
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Background: Today, media literacy and reflective thinking are emphasized as an important preventive strategy against drug abuse. Therefore, the present study aimed to explore how spiritual health mediates the relationship between media literacy and reflective thinking in lowering addiction risk among female students.Methods: In a descriptive-correlational study, 315 female students were selected using convenience sampling techniques at the University of Zanjan, Iran, from April 2021 to November 2021. They were asked to complete the Media Literacy Questionnaire (MLQ), Reflective Thinking Questionnaire (RTQ), Addiction Risk Assessment (ARA), and Spiritual Health Scale (SHS). The data was then analyzed using SEM conducted by SPSS Amos version 24.Results: Preliminary findings indicated a significant negative correlation between addiction risk and both media literacy (r=-0.33, P=0.001) and spiritual health (r=-0.36, P=0.001), with reflective thinking acting as a critical factor in enhancing media literacy’s protective effect. Spiritual health was regarded as a mediating variable in this study. The results demonstrated that spiritual health effectively mediated the relationship between media literacy and reflective thinking, affecting addiction risk among female students (P=0.001).Conclusions: This study revealed a significant negative correlation between addiction risk and both media literacy and spiritual health, where reflective thinking plays a crucial role in enhancing the protective effect of media literacy on addiction risk, with spiritual health acting as a mediating variable.
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Fatemeh Jamshiddoust Miyanroudi; Mohammad Narimani; Mohammad Baher Talari
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Background: Drug use and addiction continue to be prevalent issues that often lead to heightened conflicts with the legal system, reduced public health, elevated mortality rates, missed chances for education and career advancement, and an upsurge in societal harm. This study aimed to investigate the ...
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Background: Drug use and addiction continue to be prevalent issues that often lead to heightened conflicts with the legal system, reduced public health, elevated mortality rates, missed chances for education and career advancement, and an upsurge in societal harm. This study aimed to investigate the effect of narrative therapy on the interpersonal needs of women with addictive tendencies.Methods: The study employed a semi-experimental approach including a pre-test, post-test, and a two-month follow-up period, with a control group. The study population consisted of women with substance abuse and addiction hospitalized, either selfreferral or by recommendation, in Parto Ardabil, the De-addiction camp for women , located in Ardabil province, Iran in 2021- 2022. A group of 24 people were chosen through the convenience sampling technique, and randomly divided into two separate groups for experimentation and control purposes; each group consisted of 12 people. The experiment began with a group of participants engaged in eight weekly sessions of successful narrative therapy, each lasting 45 minutes. The data were collected using an Interpersonal Need Questionnaire (INQ). The pre-test and post-test data were analyzed using SPSS version 24.Results: The results showed no significant difference between the pre-test period between the two groups of Narrative therapy (37.92±8.03) and Control (37.75±10.78) in the interpersonal needs (P=0.966). Also, there was a significant difference in the posttest stage between the two groups of Narrative therapy (32.25±5.91) and Control (37.25±5.91) by controlling the pre-test score (P=0.001). Also, the results showed that the difference between the pre-test and post-test periods in the Narrative therapy group was significant (P=0.001). However, in the Control group, no difference was found between the stages of the study (P=590).Conclusions: Our reults showed that the narrative therapy approach is effective in reducing the two scales of perception of burdensomeness and neutral belongingness in the component of interpersonal needs. Narrative therapy enables clients to take charge of their personal growth and life changes, enabling patients to be the primary decision-makers in their unique life stories and reducing the therapist’s authority.
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Mahbobeh Azarnia; Farah Naderi; Behnam Makvandi
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Background: Breast cancer can cause significant emotional and psychological challenges for women and their families. The stress and anxiety associated with a cancer diagnosis can pave the way for the development of a variety of psychological disorders. This study investigated the potential mediating ...
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Background: Breast cancer can cause significant emotional and psychological challenges for women and their families. The stress and anxiety associated with a cancer diagnosis can pave the way for the development of a variety of psychological disorders. This study investigated the potential mediating role of physical health in the association between distress tolerance and metaemotional awareness in women diagnosed with breast cancer.Methods: This study employed a descriptive correlational design, enrolling a convenience sample of women diagnosed with breast cancer who were receiving treatment at the hematology department of Shafa Hospital in Ahvaz City, Iran, between March and August 2023. A sample of 207 patients was selected using convenience sampling method. Distress Tolerance Scale, Meta-Emotion Scale, and Physical Health Questionnaire were used to collect data. The hypothesized model was assessed using structural equation modeling (SEM) with maximum likelihood estimation. Data analysis was performed using the SPSS version 27 and Amos version 25.Results: The results showed a significant correlation between physical health and distress tolerance in women with breast cancer (P<0.001). The correlation between meta-emotion and distress tolerance was not significant (P<0.001). Moreover, the indirect correlation of meta-emotion to distress tolerance through the mediating role of physical health was significant (P=0.009).Conclusion: In women with breast cancer, physical health was significantly correlated with distress tolerance, while metaemotion had an indirect correlation mediated by physical health. These findings suggested that physical health is a crucial factor for distress tolerance, and warrants further investigation to better understand how meta-emotion and distress tolerance are connected through the pathway of physical health.
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Hassan Shafaei; Farrokhlegha Najafzadeh; Masoud Shakki; Saeed Ghorbani
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Background: Engaging in regular exercise is widely recognized as a highly efficient method to mitigate age-related disorders. The present study aimed to investigate the correlations between physical activity and the quality of life, happiness, and depression levels in elderly women.Methods: In this study, ...
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Background: Engaging in regular exercise is widely recognized as a highly efficient method to mitigate age-related disorders. The present study aimed to investigate the correlations between physical activity and the quality of life, happiness, and depression levels in elderly women.Methods: In this study, a descriptive-correlational method was employed. The participants were 390 elderly women (aged 65 and above) who were chosen through a convenience sampling procedure in Tehran, Iran, in 2023. The Physical Activity Scale for the Elderly (range of scores from 0 to 793), SF-36 Quality of Life Questionnaire (range of scores from 0 to 100), Oxford Happiness Questionnaire (range of scores from 0 to 87) and Geriatric Depression Scale (range of scores from 0 to 15) were used for measuring exercise activity, quality of life, happiness and depression, respectively. For data analysis, Pearson correlation test and regression analysis in SPSS version 26 and Lisrel 8.1 were applied.Results: Descriptive results showed that in general the level of physical activity in students was below average (114.09±15.78). Likewise, the quality of life was below average (39.83±7.40). Happiness was also below average (5.97±2.19). Finally, depression was higher than average (53.64±9.90). The findings indicated that physical activity has a direct association with the quality of life (β=0.356, T=5.137). Additionally, physical activity has a direct association with happiness (β=0.448, T=6.556). However, it was observed that physical activity has an indirect association with depression (β=-0.229, T=-3.671).Conclusions: The study results clearly indicated that engaging in physical activity significantly contributes to improving the overall wellbeing and health-related quality of life among elderly women. Thus, prioritizing the enhancement of physical and exercise routines is strongly advised as a primary approach to enhance wellbeing and health-related quality of life in elderly women.
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Marjan Bahremand; Marzieh Talebzadeh Shoushtari; Fatemeh Sadat Marashian
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Background: Infertility is one of the disturbances that may occur in the lives of couples, leading to experiences of psychological distress and endangering interpersonal relationships and marital quality. This study investigated the efficacy of intensive shortterm dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) in enhancing ...
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Background: Infertility is one of the disturbances that may occur in the lives of couples, leading to experiences of psychological distress and endangering interpersonal relationships and marital quality. This study investigated the efficacy of intensive shortterm dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) in enhancing distress tolerance and marital quality of life among infertile women in Yazd, Iran.Methods: A semi-experimental pretest-posttest follow-up design with an experimental and control group (n=20 per group) was employed. Forty infertile women from the target population in Yazd, Iran (data collected in 2023) were randomly assigned into either the experimental group receiving eight 45-minute ISTDP sessions or the control group receiving no intervention. For data collection, questionnaires on distress tolerance and perceived relationship quality components were used. Data analysis was done by a repeated-measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) in SPSS version 27 was used.Results: According to the results, for distress tolerance, the mean score for the ISTDP group at the pretest was 31.55 (±13.14), which increased to 50.10 (±9.31) at posttest and 49.70 (±8.68) in the follow-up. The mean score for the control group at the pretest and posttest were 32.05 (±10.28) and 32.25 (±10.17), respectively. Moreover, for the marital quality of life, the mean score for the ISTDP group at the pretest was 70.40 (±19.47), which increased to 90.70 (±20.59) at the posttest and 91.15 (±20.75) at the follow-up. The mean score for the control group at the pretest and posttest was 66.85 (±21.75) and 65.85 (±20.66), respectively. There was a statistically significant within-group effect in the ISTDP group (P<0.01). The results revealed a statistically significant difference (P<0.001) between the intervention and control groups on distress tolerance and marital quality of life measures. The effectiveness of ISTDP in improving distress tolerance and marital quality of life was significant, and the treatment effects remained stable during the follow-up phase.Conclusions: It appears that ISTDP can be an effective step towards improving distress tolerance and marital quality of life. Therefore, ISTDP is considered a key and effective intervention.
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Maryam Kasraeian; Maryam Zarekhafri; Homeira Vafaei; Behrouz Gharesi-Fard; Azam Faraji; Nasrin Asadi; Asieh Seraj; Shaghayegh Moradi Alamdarloo; Khadijeh Bazrafshan; Marjan Zare
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Background: No vertical transmission has been reported for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV-2); Yet, Immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibody was detected against SARS-CoV-2 amongst infants. The present study aimed to compare maternal IgG antibody concentration from infected SARS-CoV-2 mothers to newborns ...
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Background: No vertical transmission has been reported for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV-2); Yet, Immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibody was detected against SARS-CoV-2 amongst infants. The present study aimed to compare maternal IgG antibody concentration from infected SARS-CoV-2 mothers to newborns in the 2nd and 3rd trimesters. As a secondary outcome, the interval between the onset of infection and delivery and COVID-19 severity were compared.Methods: An observational cohort study was conducted on COVID-19 positive pregnant women in the 2nd and 3rd trimesters in Fars province, Iran between 21 March and 22 October 2021. A questionnaire was completed to record background characteristics of the study participants. Real-time Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction tests were taken from newborns immediately after birth to diagnose COVID-19. Maternal and cord blood specimen were taken to measure IgG concentrations; generalized linear models were used to report the crude and adjusted Rate Ratios with 95% confidence interval (cRR and aRR (95% C.I)), and IBM SPSS Statistics version 22 was used, at the significance level of 0.05.Results: From 37 patients, 15 and 22 patients were in the 2nd and 3rd trimesters of pregnancy, respectively. After adjusting on maternal age, Cord IgG concentration was positively associated with maternal IgG concentration and interval between the onset of infection and delivery in the 3rd trimester (aRR (95% CI); 2.86 (2.27-3.6) and 1.23 (1.01-1.51)); however, no association was observed with COVID-19 severity (aRR (95% CI); 0.88 (0.09-8.66)). A positive association was also seen between high levels of cord IgG and maternal IgG (≥1.1 U/mL) (aRR (95% CI); 2.31 (1.05-5.09)). No significant associations were seen in the 2nd trimester of pregnancy (P>0.05 for all).Conclusions: In late pregnancy, Cord IgG concentration was positively associated with maternal IgG and interval between the onset of infection and delivery. Also, high levels of IgG antibody (≥1.1 U/mL) resulted in significantly higher level of cord IgG (≥1.1 U/mL).
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Melika Noori; Reza Johari Fard
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Background: Vitiligo, a chronic depigmentary dermatosis, significantly compromises health-related quality of life (HRQoL), especially among women. Treatment adherence and depression are two important factors that can influence HRQoL in these patients. This study aimed to investigate the association between ...
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Background: Vitiligo, a chronic depigmentary dermatosis, significantly compromises health-related quality of life (HRQoL), especially among women. Treatment adherence and depression are two important factors that can influence HRQoL in these patients. This study aimed to investigate the association between treatment adherence, depression, and HRQoL in women with vitiligo.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 152 women with vitiligo who were selected using convenient sampling method from a dermatology clinic in Ahvaz, Iran, in 2023. The study employed the MOS 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36), Treatment Adherence Questionnaire (TAQ), and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) to collect data. Pearson correlation coefficients assessed the relationships between variables, while stepwise regression analysis explored the independent contributions of these factors to the outcome variables.Results: Our results showed mean scores (SD) of 58.13 (11.50) for HRQoL, 49.70 (8.82) for treatment adherence, and 20.25 (4.47) for depression. Significant positive and negative correlations were observed between treatment adherence and HRQoL (r=0.44, P<0.001) and depression and HRQoL (r=-0.36, P<0.001), respectively. Furthermore, regression analysis confirmed that both treatment adherence (β=0.51, P<0.001) and depression (β=-0.57, P<0.001) were significantly associated with HRQoL in women with vitiligo.Conclusion: These results highlighted the importance of treatment adherence as a key factor influencing HRQoL in women with vitiligo. Additionally, the study underscores the negative impact of depression on HRQoL, suggesting the potential benefit of addressing both treatment adherence and depression in clinical management strategies to optimize HRQoL for women with vitiligo.
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Fahimeh Zarean; Ali Sheykholeslami; Esmaeil Sadri Damirchi; Ali Rezaei Sharif
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Background: In addition to physical problems, infertile couples face psychological issues during treatment. This study aimed to investigate the effect of healing codes training on the sexual self-esteem of infertile women.Methods: The present study employed a quasi-experimental pre-test, post-test, follow-up ...
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Background: In addition to physical problems, infertile couples face psychological issues during treatment. This study aimed to investigate the effect of healing codes training on the sexual self-esteem of infertile women.Methods: The present study employed a quasi-experimental pre-test, post-test, follow-up design with a control group and an experimental group. Convenience sampling method was used to recruit forty infertile women satisfying the inclusion criteria from fertility treatment centers in Isfahan, Iran in 2023. Participants were randomly assigned into either the experimental group (n=20) or the control group (n=20). The experimental group received a standardized 14-week intervention consisting of weekly 90-minute training sessions focused on a specific therapeutic technique (healing codes). Data analysis was conducted using repeated-measures ANOVA.Results: The results demonstrated a statistically significant increase in sexual self-esteem scores in the experimental group compared with the control group (P=0.001) at both the post-test and follow-up phases. No significant difference was observed between the groups at pre-test. Throughout the study, the mean scores for the experimental group (post-test: 110.13±6.71, follow-up: 110.32±6.93) were significantly higher than the control group (post-test: 91.93±11.40, follow-up: 94.74±17.12). These findings suggested that healing codes training led to a significant difference in sexual self-esteem between the experimental and control groups (P=0.001).Conclusions: This study provided evidence that healing codes training leads to a significant improvement in sexual self-esteem among infertile women. These findings suggested that healing codes training may be a promising new approach to improve the psychological well-being of infertile women.
