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The aim of this study is the comparison of biofeedback and Kegel treatment methods on quality of life enhancement in women with urine incontinency.
In a quasi experimental study,45 women with urge urine inconstancy who referred to Atieh neuroscience center from October to February 2015 were selected with randomized sampling and were assigned in two groups of control and experiment. Patients in biofeedback group received 40 minutes electromyography biofeedback during five sessions and per twice a week. In Kegel group, patients performed the Kegel experiments 30 minutes during 8 weeks per twice a week. Patients were appraised the quality of life questionnaire before and after the treatment. Finally the data were analyzed with ANCOVA method.
Biofeedback induced a significant change in quality of life of women with urinary incontinency (pConclotion: Biofeedback treatment method is caused to enhancement of life’s quality in people with urine incontinency.

Identifying factors associated with psychological well-being of the elderly, is one of the topics of interest to aging psychology. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of lifestyle, psychological capital and self-care behaviors in predicting mental well-being in elderly peoples with type 2 diabetes.
This research is descriptive and correlational. In this study, 350 in Kermanshah were selected from various parts of the city using randomized sampling and clustering method to participate in the study. To collect information, the Basic Adlerian Scales for Interpersonal Success-Adult Form Kern and etal (1933), psychological capital Mac Gee (2011), Summary Of Diabetes Self – Care Activities (SDSCA) Tobert and etal (2000) and Adult Subjective well-being questionnaire Keyes & Magyar-Moe (2003) were used. The collected information was analyzed using software Spss21 and statistical tests such as Pearson correlation coefficient and stepwise multivariate regression.
The bivariate relationship of life style with any component of social (r=0.412), emotional (r=0.427) psychological well-being (r=0.461), and mental well-being (r=0.403), is positive and significant (P ≤ 0.001) the relationship between psychological capital and mental well-being (r=0.410) is significant and positive (P ≤ 0.001), there is also a significant and positive relationship between self-care (r=0.497), and mental well-being (P ≤ 0.001). The results of multivariate regression showed that 78 percent of the variance in mental well-being of the elderly people is explained by social interest-belonging, responsibility, gentleness, self-efficacy, toleration, optimism, hope and self-care.
The results of this study have important implications about the importance of lifestyle, psychological capital and self-care behaviors in maintaining emotional, social and psychological well-being of elderly people.

The role of psychological distress has been approved in the clinical course of skin diseases which can lead to the development and incidence of some skin diseases. The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of processing emotion regulation strategies training (PERST) in psychological distress (PD) of patient with vitiligo.
This study is an experimental study with a single subject in which design A B were used. The study measured 6 times (once as a baseline, four times, once during treatment and in the follow up) was performed. Among patients with skin disorders treatment centers, 3 patients with vitiligo disease were recruited through convenient sampling. The instruments of research were include the complete package of PERST based on Gross Model, Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale (DASS) and structured clinical interview for axis I disorders in DSM-IV (SCID-I).
The results showed a stable downward trend for PD scale scores and the components of depression, anxiety and stress that reflects the effectiveness of PERST in these variables.
Psychological distress role in predisposing, precipitating and continuation of skin diseases, including vitiligo and subsequently in other aspects of their lives and PERST can play an important role by reducing PD as adjunctive and Rehabilitation therapies with medical treatment.

One of the most important factors in sexual and marital satisfaction is sexual assertiveness. Recording to survivors of breast cancer shows unsatisfactory for most of them with a same pattern of sexual activity; this study was conducted to determine the efficiency of four-factor psychotherapy (therapeutic relationship, expectancy to therapy, increasing awareness and behavior regulation) on increasing sexual assertiveness survivors of breast cancer.
This research was performed using semi-experimental study with pre-test/post-test control group design and 2/5 months follow-up. The statistical population included all married breast cancer survivors who were referred to Shohada-e Tajrish hospital in 2015. The samples were 30 survivors who selected available and randomly divided into two groups of 15 (a control and an experimental group). Hurlbert index of sexual assertiveness (HISA) was completed as pre-test, post-test and follow up by participants. The experimental group attended in ten-weekly, 90 minutes sessions of psychotherapy. At the end, factorial analysis of variance was applied to analyze the data.
showed no significant difference between levels of sexual assertiveness in experimental and control group after treatment. On the other hand this psychotherapy could increase sexual assertiveness in survivors with high sexual assertiveness in pre-test tough this Significance was unstable in 2/5 months follow up.
four-factor psychotherapy is not effective way to increasing sexual assertiveness in breast cancer survivors.

The purpose of this study investigated the relationship between Cognitive Attentional Syndrome (CAS), anxiety and depression attention to the mediating role of coping styles in burned patients.
170 patients from Rasht Burn Center entered the research through random sampling and surveys of mental disorders SCL-90- R, CAS-1 scale, coping styles scal CISS (Endler & Parker, 1990), was completed. The research method was correlation and the proposed model through structural equation modeling (SEM) were analyzed. To test the mediating effects bootstrap method was used.
The results showed positive and significant impact CAS on depression and anxiety symptoms. The findings revealed a significant negative impact problem-focused coping style on anxiety and depressive symptoms in patients. Emotion-focused coping had positive significant effect on symptoms of anxiety and depression.The mediating role of problem-focused and emotion-focused coping styles in the relationship between CAS with anxiety and depression were also confirmed.
According to results, Meta-cognitive structures like CAS & coping style structure are very important In the area of rehabilitation and Psychological well-being in burn patients That should be considered.

The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of the perceived support in predicting psychological distress based on emotional control and coping styles in the mothers of children with thalassemia.
The statistical population included the mothers of children with thalassemia in Tehran. The convenience sampling method was used to select 200 subjects as the sample.
The research evidence and the results of the confirmatory factor analysis indicated that the perceived support had the mediation role in predicting psychological distress, based on coping styles, but it didn’t have the mediation role in predicting psychological distress, based on emotional control. Also the perceived support had a significantly direct impact on psychological distress (-0.75). Emotional control had a significantly direct impact on psychological distress, too (0.36). The significantly direct impact of coping styles on psychological distress and the perceived support was 0.36; however, emotional control did not have a significantly direct impact on the perceived support.
According to the research findings, it can be concluded that the perceived support, emotional control and coping styles influenced the psychological distress among the mothers of children with thalassemia. Therefore, training in these topics can help reduce the psychological distress among the mothers of children with Tallahassee.

The aim of the present study was to investigate the efficacy of family-oriented psychological interventions on marital satisfaction of pregnant mothers as well as their infant’s birth weight.
population of this quasi-experimental comprised all pregnant women which were in their first quarterly of gestation and came to Madaen Hospital for gestation cares. 30 pregnant mother were chosen by convenient sampling and assigned to experimental and control groups. All of mothers completed Afrooz Marital Satisfaction Scale as pre- and post-test and also the weight of their infants was measured after birth. Experimental group underwent family-oriented psychological interventions for 16 consecutive sessions once a week.
Data analysis by ANCOVA and MANCOVA showed that family-oriented psychological interventions would improve marital satisfaction of pregnant mothers (pThese findings suggest the importance of implementation of family-oriented psychological interventions in gestation period and having educational programs to enhance psychological characteristics of pregnant women as well as increasing infants’ birth weight.

the present study aimed to compare Alexithymia, Distress tolerance, and Anger rumination among patients with Hypertension and normal people.
The research design is causal-comparative or ex post facto which is a descriptive – analytic method. The population is all patients with hypertension from the health care centers and hospitals of Aleshtar, Lorestan. The total numbers of the participants is 40 clients which we select them by at hand sampling method. We compare these clients with 40 normal people. Data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of variance.
Results indicated that there is a significant difference between patients with Hypertension and normal people in terms of their total scores in alexithymia, distress tolerance, and anger rumination.
we need to consider these psychological factors in treatment programs.