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سال نوزدهم شماره 4 (پیاپی 79، خرداد و تیر 1396)

Education of life skills will promote socio-psychological abilities and will help individual's copes effectively with challenges and situations in the life. The present research aims to study the effect of education of life skills on mental health of girls aged between 14-18 years old in wellbeing like-family centers of Kerman.
Statistical population of this clinical research includes all girls aged between 14-18 years in wellbeing like-family centers in academic year of 2015-2016 (45 cases). Since continuous presence of children was essential in all educational sessions and only 30 girls could participate in all sessions, all girls were chosen as the sample size. The experimental group learned life skills within 10 ninety minutes sessions. To collect information, Goldberg and Hiller mental health questionnaire (GHQ-28) has been used and it was completed by participants before intervention. To analyze data, T paired test was used and Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was applied to study normalization of the difference in pre- and posttest scores of mental health before T paired test.
Education of life skills has been significantly effective on mental health of girls in like-family centers. In addition to the effect of education of life skills on mental health, such education has the most positive effect on signs of anxiety and sleep disorder and it has the least positive effect on physical signs in significance level of (P Concerning to the results, it seems that life skills education has significant effects on mental health in girls in like-family centers.

People with authentic personality versus psychological adversity and psychological trauma more resistance. The aim of this study was evaluation the predictive role of the authentic personality in anticipation anxiety, depression, stress and feeling lonely in medical sciences students.
In this correlational study, 203 medical sciences students of Isfahan University in academic year of 2015-2016 were selected through convenient sampling method and they fulfilled inventory of authentic personality, Anxiety, Depression, Stress Scale and inventory of feeling lonely. Data were analyzed using multiple regression by stepwise method.
The results showed that the relationship between self-alienation and accepting external influences with psychological health (anxiety, depression, stress) was significant (P=0.001). On this basis self-alienation and accepting external influences play greater role in anticipation of anxiety, depression and stress. In addition self-alienation and authentic-living play greater role in anticipation emotional feeling lonely. Also social feeling lonely and the total feeling lonely were the best predictors for self-alienation
It seems that student's mental health and feeling lonely can be explained by their personality traits.

Psychiatric co-morbidities including personality disorders (PD) are common among gender dysphoria (GD) subjects. It has been proposed that prevalence and severity of PD may have differences in male-to-female (MtF) and female-to-male (FtM) individuals. This study was conducted to evaluate differences in demographics and personality disorders between MtF and FtM GD subjects.
This cross sectional study was conducted in Ibn-e-Sina hospital GD clinic and research center, Mashhad, Iran. Forty subjects including 20 MtF GD and 20 FtM GD were enrolled in this study using non-probability sampling method. Personality traits (PT) and disorders were assessed using Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP-200). Data were analyzed by t-test, χ2 and Fischer's exact test, and logistic regression in SPSS software version 16.
School refusal (P=0.025) and unemployment (P=0.001) were more common in MtF than FtM GD subjects. Totally, one or more PD was diagnosed in 24 (60%) subjects. Histrionic personality disorder was more prevalent in MtF than FtM GD subjects (P=0.41). FtM GD persons achieve better high function scores (P=0.02). Lower education and adult onset of GD were significantly correlated to personality disorders in GD subjects.
Personality disorders are prevalent in both male to female and female to male gender dysphoria subjects, and this should be taken into account in the assessment and treatment planning of gender dysphoria patients. Male to female gender dysphoria may have lower social and psychiatric functions than female to male gender dysphoria subjects.

Autism spectrum disorder entails continuous failure in communication, social interaction, limited interests, and other behavioral symptoms. It is associated with multiple complications and problems and has a poor prognosis. Anthropometry is the science of measuring linear and angular dimensions of body limbs. Therefore, fingers anthropometry or lips print cheiloscopy can be used to identify individuals or to develop medical anthropology research.
In this study, 37 male children aged 3 to 18 years old with autism spectrum disorders whose diagnoses were approved by a psychiatrist and 43 healthy children from two Fars ethnic groups living in Mashhad were recruited. Anthropometric measures were measured for studying lips print. Pictures were transferred to a PC and Picture Manager Software was used to investigate each lip patterns. Then, each photo was divided into six districts (each lip into three zones). These areas include: upper right (UR), upper middle (UM), upper left (UL), lower right (LR), lower middle (LM), and lower left (LL). Data were analyzed through polynomial regression and ANOVA models by SPSS software.
The most abundant lip patterns in the male population with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Fars ethnicity were complete branch pattern and reticular pattern
It seems that lips print cheiloscopy can be used to identify individuals with autism spectrum disorders through more researches.

Breast cancer is one of the most common types of cancer. The present research has been carried out to investigate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) on quality of life and mood in women with breast cancer undergoing mastectomy.
In this clinical trial (code: IRCT2017040933315N1), 50 voluntary patients who had undergone mastectomy, were screened among the patients admitted to Omid Hospital and Reza Treatment Center in Mashhad and were randomly divided into experimental group (n=25) and control group (n=25). First, both groups were evaluated in pretest phase. Then, the experimental group received group MBCT treatments during eight sessions of 120 minutes, but the control group received no treatment. At the end of treatment, both groups evaluated in post-test phase. Data collection tools included standard questionnaires temperament (POMS) and the quality of life questionnaire (SF-36). The data were analyzed based on covariance analysis using SPSS software (Version 20).
Comparison of the mean scores of quality of life and mood showed a significant difference between the control and experimental groups after receiving the treatment (P Group mindfulness-based cognitive therapy can be considered as an effective and efficient approach to the quality of life and mood (anxiety and depression) in women with breast cancer who have undergone mastectomy.

This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of group metacognitive therapy in self-efficacy and defense styles in women with multiple sclerosis (MS).
In this clinical trial (code: IRCT2015091624054N1), from among all the patients suffering from multiple sclerosis, who were referred to the MS Society in Khorasan Razavi in 2014, 30 women were selected through available sampling method and were randomly assigned to two groups: an experimental group and a control group. The experimental group received metacognitive therapy for eight weeks while the control group spent the routine process of the sessions held by the MS Society. For data collection, Sherer General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSE) and Defense Styles Questionnaire (DSQ) were administered in the pretest, posttest and follow-up test. Repeated-measures ANOVA with a significance level α of 0.05 were conducted for data analysis.
The results showed that group metacognitive therapy led to a significantly higher level of self-efficacy (P It seems that group metacognitive therapy can improve self-efficacy and increase the use of mature defense mechanisms in women with multiple sclerosis.

Intervention based on acceptance and commitment is one of the third waves cognitive behavioral therapies and is currently being used in the treatment of a number of psychological conditions and disorders. It also enhances psychological flexibility and subsequently improves patient's mental health. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of intervention based on acceptance and commitment on emotions and thoughts control in patients with type II diabetes in Ferdows city.
Participants if this clinical research included 34 patients with type II diabetes that were selected from those who had records in the hospital clinic in Ferdows city at 2016 year and who were randomly assigned into equal control and experimental groups. All the participants completed both Effective Control Scale (ECS) and Thought Control Questionnaire (TCQ) as the pre-test and post-test. Afterwards the experimental group participated in 8 sessions of acceptance and commitment therapy each of which lasted for one hour. Data analyzed through covariance and SPSS software.
The results showed that intervention based on acceptance and commitment had significantly improved emotions and thoughts control in the experimental group compared to controls (P Generally, the findings of this study show the efficacy of intervention based on acceptance and commitment to improve emotions control and thought control in patients with type II diabetes and also represents new horizons in clinical interventions which can be used as an appropriate intervention.

Transdiagnostic models are important by focus on fundamental processes underlying multiple disorders and help to explain comorbidity among disorders as well as may lead to more effective assessment and treatment of disorders. Therefore, the aim of this study was compare of anxiety disorders symptoms and related transdiagnostic factors in individuals with type 2 diabetes and healthy individuals.
In an ex-post facto study, 63 individual with type 2 diabetes and 63 healthy individuals were selected by convenient sampling method. The participates completed generalized anxiety disorder scale (2006), severity measure for panic disorder-adult (2013), social phobia inventory (2000), cognitive avoidance questionnaire (2008), intolerance of uncertainty scale (1994), metacognition questionnaire (2004), acceptance and action questionnaire-II (2011) and cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire (2006). Data were analyzed using univariate analysis of variance (ANOVA).
The results showed that there was significant difference between two groups in generalized anxiety (P=0.0001) and panic symptoms (P=0.009). However, no difference was observed between both groups considering the symptoms of social anxiety disorder (P=0.79). Also, there is significant difference between two groups in all transdiagnostic factors, namely cognitive avoidance (P=0.0001), intolerance of uncertainty (P=0.009), negative beliefs about worry (P=0.0001), maladaptive emotion regulation strategies (P=0.01), except experiential avoidance (P=0.22).
It seems that individuals with type 2 diabetes experience the symptoms of anxiety disorders and related transdiagnostic factors more severely than others. These results indicated the importance of transdiagnostic factors as well as the development of transdiagnostic psychotherapy programs along with therapeutic treatments for diabetic patients.