javad molazadeh

 Early diagnosis and treatment are crucial for the recovery of adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa (AN), and parental involvement plays a pivotal role in early intervention. Therefore, the present study aimed to explore Iranian parents’ challenges before and after seeking out professional help for the treatment of their adolescent with AN and what they required during this process. 
Through purposeful sampling, 15 parents of adolescents with AN from several cities of Iran participated in this qualitative study. Data was gathered through online in-depth semi-structured interviews in Google Meet platform between July 2022 and October 2022, and was analyzed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis.
 Overall, seven group experiential themes emerged from the interviews. The challenges included four main themes: lack of mental health literacy, misdiagnosis or delays in eating disorders recognition, lack of eating disorder specialists and centers, and parental burnout. In addition, the needs consisted of three main themes: familiarity with eating disorders, parent management training, emotional and societal support.
 Iranian healthcare providers can consider the challenges and the needs of parents identified in this study to provide the best practice for the diagnosis and treatment of pediatric AN with minimum potential deficits.

Today, people spend a lot of time in the cyberspace and social networks. One of the common phenomena of this space is false self-presentation, which can have many consequences in the field of mental health for both the individual and other users. Identifying the effective factors in this phenomenon helps us in prevention. It seems that the effective factors in this field are self-esteem and secular attachment. So the purpose of this study was to examine the role of secular attachment in the field of mental health in cyberspace, which was examined in the form of a model.

The present study is correlational. The statistical population of the study included all male and female students of Shiraz University, out of whom a sample of 307 people was selected by available sampling method. They answered the questionnaires of false self-presentation, secular attachment and self-esteem. In this study, all ethical considerations were observed and no conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

The results showed a good fit of the model. In other words, the results showed that self-esteem can predict false self-presentation through mediation of secular attachment.

It is suggested that researchers and therapists not neglect the role of cultural and religious variables. Parents and education activists should also pay special attention to fostering self-esteem during development.

In recent years exposure to traumatic events has been described as one of the most effective and determinant factors in people's attitude (especially young adults) towards high-risk behaviors. Because high-risk behaviors are among the high-risk behaviors that can cause irreparable damage to both the individual and the community, studying the determinants and related variables is important. The purpose of this study was investigating the relationship between sexual risk behaviors related to HIV and exposure to traumatic events in people with substance use.

Materials & Methods:

This study was cross-sectional /correlational that was conducted on 200 substance users. These people admitted to addiction treatment and recovery centers in Shiraz that were selected by convenient sampling.The data collection tool was HIV Risky Behavior Scale (HRBS) and Life Events Checklist (LEC). Data were analyzed using stepwise multiple regression.

The results showed that all dimensions of exposure to traumatic events have a significant positive relationship with risky sexual behavior (p

Stigma has a significant impact on the life of individuals with mental illness. The purpose of this study was to examine the association of contact with the mentally ill with stigmatizing attitudes in a group of college students.

A total of 287 college students participated in this study. The participants were recruited from Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences using convenience sampling and completed the research measures including the Level of Familiarity (LOF) and the Attribution questionnaires (AQ). The data were analyzed using SPSS.

The descriptive findings of this study showed that the participants’ highest score on stigmatizing attitudes was related to pity and the least score was related to anger towards people with mental illness. Furthermore, the regression analysis results indicated that personal contact, family contact, and work contact with individuals with mental illness significantly predicted stigma reduction, while other types of contacts with the mentally ill, such as friend contact, social contact, and media contact, did not significantly predict stigma reduction.

This study highlighted the significant role of having contact with the mentally ill in reducing stigmatizing attitudes towards them.

Survey conducted by the center for disease control of the ministry of health shows that cases of AIDS through risky sexual behavior are increasing that could be warning for the intensification of the negative consequences of the disease in the community. Difficulty in emotion regulation and exposure to traumatic event are the most important factors in risky sexual behavior. The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of emotion regulation difficulty in the relationship between risky sexual behavior and exposure to traumatic events.
Two hundred substance abusers admitted to addiction treatment and recovery centers in Shiraz were selected by convenient sampling. To collect the data HIV Risky Sexual Behavior Scale (HRSB), Difficulty in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) and Life Event Checklist (LEC) were used. Possible causal model was analyzed by Structural Equation Model (SEM).
The results of this study support the mediating role of emotion regulation difficulties (β=0.31, P=0.0001) in the relationship between exposure to traumatic event and risky sexual behavior.
According to evidence, it can be concluded that exposure to traumatic event and difficulty in emotion regulation can provide risky sexual behavior. Furthermore, trauma by disrupting the emotion regulation can lead to risky behavior.

New cognitive theories of delusions have proposed that deficit or bias in inference stage (a stage of normal belief formation) is significant in delusion formation. The aim of this study was predicting the severity of delusions based on jumping-to-conclusion bias in patients with schizophrenia.
The sample consisted of 60 deluded patients with schizophrenia who were selected from the Ebnesina and Razi hospitals in Shiraz using convenience sampling method. The Similarity Task was used to measure the jumping-to-conclusion biases.
Its results have shown that the jumping-to-conclusion biases could predict a great part of the variance of delusions.
These results generally indicated that the jumping to conclusion biases may provide a more useful explanation for the delusion formation.

The Forgivingness questionnaire has been designed to assessforgivingness in a variety of cultural contexts. This questionnaire was based on common Western conceptualizations of forgiveness. In Western communities, when one is the victim of an intentional offense, a feeling of resentment seems logical. The intensity and duration of this feeling of resentment usually depends on the circumstances of the offense, the attitude of the offender and the personality of the victim. This study explored the factor structure of forgiveness in an Iranian sample and the relationship between forgiveness and mental health among the Iranian participants. Two hundred ninety two university students participated in this study. The Forgivingness Questionnaire and General Health Questionnaire were used The forgivingness items indicated Cronbach''s alpha of. 94 for the total scale. An exploratory factor analysis was conducted on the raw data for the whole sample. Using the scree test, three interpretable factors emerged that accounted for %66.34 of the variance. Correlation coefficients between FQ and GHQ (r = -0.59, p< 0.01). Conclsusion:Our results were consistent with what had been obtained in several European and Asian samples. However, they were different from the findings of Kadiangandu et al., who reported two factors in their Congo sample: revenge versus forgiveness and personal and social circumstances