نشریه روان پرستاری
سال چهارم شماره 5 (پیاپی 17، آذر و دی 1395)

Nursing is known as a stressful job that can seriously endanger the health of nurses. This study was performed with the purpose of examining the effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction on perceived stress, resilience and quality of life in nurses.
In a quasi-experimental design with pre-test and post-test, using available sampling, 22 nurses were selected according to the inclusion criteria and randomly divided to two groups, intervention and control group (11 nurses each group). The intervention consisted of eight 2-hour sessions of mindfulness-based stress reduction treatment conducted only for the experimental group. The participants in pre-test and post-test were examined by the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) of Cohen, Coner and Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RSC) and short form of quality of life questionnaire (SF-36). Data were analyzed by SPSS software version 19 using analysis of covariance.
The intervention group showed a significant increase in quality of life in the mental health component compared with the control group (P 0.05).
Mindfulness-based stress reduction can be effective for promoting the mental health factor of the life quality in nurses.

The purpose of this study was to develop mind reading skills training program and study its effectiveness on empathy and systematic quotient of High Functional Autistic children (HFA).
The present study had an experimental design with pre-test and post-test with a control group and the aim was to perform an applied research. Of the total target population of children with high-functioning autism, 16 available samples were selected and randomly divided to two groups, experimental (n = 8) and control (n = 8). Auyeung’s Empathy and the systematic questionnaire were applied for assessment of empathy and systematic quotient.
The results showed that theory of mind training program, significantly (p Regarding the effectiveness of mind-reading program for enhancing empathy, the systematic use of the program in rehabilitation centers for people with autism disorders is recommended. Although for the application of this intervention program, further investigations are needed.

Successful aging is a positive feeling satisfied with the past and present life. Spiritual health is one of the factors that may be associated with successful aging. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between successful aging and spiritual health of the elderly in Tehran city.
This study was a correlational study conducted in 2016. Participants were 112 elderly people in Tehran city, who were selected by multistage cluster sampling. The data were collected by demographic form, Jarel spiritual health and successful aging questionnaire. Data was analyzed using PASW software and through descriptive statistics, independent T test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis.
The results of this study showed that there was a significant correlation between successful aging and spiritual health. Results of the regression analysis for predicting successful aging based on spiritual health showed that spiritual health in relation to others was able to explain 9% of the changes in successful aging.
Successful aging is associated with spiritual health in relationship with others, and those interventions which are focused on education and spirituality can further enrich aging period.

Leukemia is one of the cancers affecting coping style and adjustment of patients. This study aims at investigating the efficacy of group logo therapy on Coping Strategies with Stress and adjustment toward illness in leukemic patients and comparing the results to those of control group
This study is a semi-experimental research based on pre-test and post-test with a control group. Research population consists of all leukemia patients, having referred to Shahid Ghazi Hospital in 2015. From the above-mentioned population, 33 subjects have been selected through available non-random sampling and then Subjects have been randomly divided into two experimental (17 individuals) and control groups (16 individuals). Then, subjects in the experimental group were trained for “logo therapy” in 10 sessions. Subjects in control group did not receive any training. Subjects in both experimental and control groups answered strategic questionnaires of coping style and adjustment before and after treatment. The data were analyzed by the descriptive statistics and t-tests using SPSS (v. 17) software.
Our findings showed that the two groups have similar demographic characteristics. The mean problem solving coping style of the intervention and control groups are 62.1 ± 7.6 and 29.5 ± 7.6, respectively. Also, their difference is statistically significant (P This finding confirms that logo therapy could result in meaning of life in leukemia patients and it results in better coping style and adjustment.

Multiple Sclerosis is a chronic disease of the Central Nervous System (CNS). It is widely accepted that this disease might be related to several psychiatric disorders, especially depression. The purpose of this research was to evaluate the effect of motivational interviewing on depression of patients with multiple sclerosis referring to Isfahan Alzahra Hospital.
This was a quasi-experimental study conducted on control and intervention groups with before and after design. Sixty patients with multiple sclerosis were selected by convenience sampling from patients referred to Isfahan Alzahra University Hospital MS clinic, in 2014, and were randomly allocated to control and intervention groups. Motivational interviewing sessions were performed for the intervention group for three weeks, one hour depression. Data were collected before and one month after the intervention using Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). Data were analyzed with the SPSS software, using independent t-test, paired t-test, Mann-Whitney and Chi-squared test.
After the intervention, the mean depression in the intervention group decreased from 28.42 ± 14.5 to 21.08 ± 7.2, showing a significant decrease in patients’ depression levels (P 0.05). The score of depression disorder after the intervention in patients of the intervention and control groups was significantly different (P Our research findings indicated the efficacy of motivational interviewing for reducing depression of patients with multiple sclerosis disease suggesting its application to other chronic diseases.

Elderly when faced with different types of stressors, employ various coping strategies that are associated with different consequences for their physical and mental health. This study aimed to identify the stressors and coping strategies were employed in Elderly of East of Guilan.
This study was cross-sectional correlational-analytic. In this study, 124 elderly over 60 years old randomly selected from East Guilan’s Retirement Centers and their demographic factors, stressors in elderly and coping strategies examined using Endler and Parker questionnaire. Collected data were analyzed using SPSS 18 software and t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient, Mann-Whitney U tests.
The results showed that the most frequent stressor is related to the empty nest (766.5 ± 81.26) and women reported more stress than men did (144.10 ± 26.495). The most used coping strategy by studied elderly was emotion-focused strategy (129.10 ± 69.51).
In this study, the most stressor was the empty nest; the most used coping strategies were emotion-focused, and running away from the problem. Therefore, due to the need to take appropriate coping strategies in older people, paying attention to this valuable group of society and also organizing education and counseling programs for these people and their families is important.

Kidney disease is one of the most common diseases in people that leads to emotional problems such as stress, anxiety and depression. The purpose of this study was to predict of the amount of depression, anxiety and stress based on spiritual components in hemodialysis patients in Ilam province.
In this research, which was carried out with the correlation method, 150 hemodialysis patients were selected and then subjected to the study by means of available sampling. Three questionnaires regarding depression, anxiety, stress, prayer and spiritual health were used as a means of data collection. In this research, dimensions of prayer and spiritual health were considered as a predictors and emotional components were considered as a dependent variable. The data were analyzed by R Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regressions analyzes.
The results of the study revealed that there are significant negative relationships between all dimensions of prayer and depression and stress, while there are also significant negative relationships between a dimensions of prayer except pray frequency and anxiety (P Spiritual components are correlative with patient's emotional component. Thus, religious beliefs can be used to improve hemodialysis patients’ health.

The current research was administered with the aim of studying the structural model of the relationship between bullying in hospital environments and negative effect and psychosomatic complaints.
The research method was correlational and the statistical population comprised of female nurses of a public sector hospital in Esfahan city during year 2015, amongst which two 243 nurses were selected by accessible sampling. Research instruments were the bullying questionnaire, negative affect questionnaire, and psychosomatic complaints questionnaire. Data were analyzed using Pearson's correlation coefficient and Structure Equation Modeling (SEM).
Results indicated that, there is a positive and significant relationship between six components of bullying with negative affect and psychosomatic complaints. The results of Structure Equation Modeling (SEM) revealed that bullying both directly and indirectly (through negative effect) has a significant relationship with psychosomatic complaints. In other words, negative affect is a partial mediator of the relationship between bullying and psychosomatic complaints in female nursing staff.
The results of this study showed that bullying through reinforcing negative effect can increase psychosomatic complaints of female nurses.