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This study was conducted to investigate the efficacy of psychological capitals training on the psychological resilience and mental empowerment of employees with work-family conflict at the Sarkhoon and Qeshm gas company. It was a quasi-experimental study with a pre-test, post-test, control group, and a follow-up period of four months. In the spring of 2021, the statistical population included employees with work-family conflicts at the Sarkhoon and Qeshm oil and gas company. Using a systematic sampling technique, 27 employees were selected and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. Two and a half months of psychological capitals training (10 sessions) were administered to the experimental group. Work-Family Conflict Questionnaire (WFCS), Psychological Resilience Questionnaire (RQ), and Mental Empowerment Questionnaire (PES) were among the questionnaires utilized in this study. The study’s data were analyzed using Mixed ANOVA and SPSS-23 software. Psychological capitals training had a positive effect on psychological resilience (P<0001, Eta=0.57, F=33.68) and mental empowerment (P<0001, Eta=0.48, F=23.28) among employees with work-family conflict. According to the findings of the present study, training in psychological capitals is an effective method for enhancing psychological resilience and mental empowerment among employees experiencing work-family conflict.

The aim of the current research was to compare the effectiveness of reality therapy and mindfulness-based therapy on the amount of corona stress in patients with covid-19. In terms of the purpose, the present research was part of applied research, and in terms of method, it was a semi-experimental study with a pre-test-post-test design and a control group with a 2-month follow-up period. The statistical population of the study included all the patients infected with Covid-19 in Mazandaran province in 2021, from which 45 people were selected as a sample by available sampling and were replaced in two experimental groups and a control group. CSS-18 (2019) and reality therapy sessions were performed in 8 sessions once a week for 90 minutes and mindfulness in 8 sessions once a week for 90 minutes. Data were analyzed using repeated measures analysis of variance. The findings showed that reality therapy reduces the stress of coronavirus in patients with covid 19 (p=0.001), and the treatment based on mindfulness reduces the stress of coronavirus in patients with covid 19 (p=0.001). ), there is no difference between the effectiveness of reality therapy and mindfulness-based therapy on corona stress in patients with covid-19 (p=0.05); Based on the results of the research, it can be said that these two treatment methods can be used to reduce the stress of corona in patients with covid-19.

The present study was conducted to investigate the efficacy of psychological capitals training on the job engagement and responsibility of the staff with work-family conflict in Sarkhoon and Qeshm gas Company. It was a quasi-experimental study with pretest, posttest, control group and tree-month follow-up period design. The statistical population included the staff with work-family conflict in Sarkhoon and Qeshm oil and Gas Company in the spring of 2021. 27 employees were selected through purposive sampling method and randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups. The experimental group received psychological capitals training (10 sessions) during two-and-a-half months. The applied questionnaires in this study included work-family conflict questionnaire (Carlson, Kacmar, and Williams, 2000), job engagement and questionnaire (Schaufeli, Salanova, 2002) and responsibility questionnaire (Carroll, 2010). The data from the study were analyzed through Mixed ANOVA via SPSS23 software. The results showed that psychological capitals training has been effective on the job engagement and responsibility in the staff with work-family conflict. According to the findings of the present study, psychological capitals training can be used as the efficient method to improve job engagement and responsibility of the staff with work-family conflict using concepts such as resilience, self-efficacy, optimism and hope.

Objective :

The patients with myocardial ischemia gradually stop following their treatment and self-care behaviors due to high involvement with the treatment process. The present study aims to investigate the effect of an educational intervention based on the protection motivation theory (PMT) on the self-care of patients with myocardial ischemia.

Methods:

 This is a mixed-method (quantitative and qualitative) study. In the first phase, the qualitative approach using grounded theory was used. In the second phase (quantitative), a quasi-experimental study with a pre-test/post-test design and a control group was conducted. The study population included all patients with myocardial ischemia referred to the Payamabar-e-Azam Hospital in Bandar Abbas, Iran in 2020. Of whom, 82 were selected using a purposive sampling method and randomly assigned into intervention and control groups. The intervention group received the educational intervention at 6 sessions of 90 minutes. The self-care questionnaire of Miller et al. (1982) was used to collect data. The data were analyzed using MANCOVA in SPSS v. 23 software.

Results:

 The results showed that the intervention based on the PMT had significant effect on the self-care of patients (F=144.77, P<0001, eta squared=0.65) such that it led to the increase of self-care in patients.

Conclusion:

 The educational intervention based on the PMT, by relying on proper nutrition, self-care skills, increasing awareness, and relaxation exercises, can be used to increase the self-care of the patients with myocardial ischemia.

Patients with ischemic heart disease (IHD) gradually reduce their follow-up treatment due to the vulnerable physical condition and high involvement with the disease-related treatment process. The purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of intervention based on the protection motivation theory (PMT) on treatment adherence in patients with IHD.

This quasi-experimental research used a pretest-posttest design with a control group. The statistical population included all patients with IHD referred to the Payambar Azam hospital in Bandar Abbas, Iran for more than once between March 2019 and May 2020. A total of 16 patients were selected through the matched targeted sampling and randomly assigned into two equal groups of experimental and control (n = 8 each). The test group received an intervention based on the PMT in six 90-minute sessions within 45 days. We used the Modanloo Treatment Adherence Questionnaire (TAQ), and the data were analyzed using the analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) in the SPSS23 statistical software.

The results of ANCOVA showed that the intervention based on the PMT significantly increased the treatment adherence and its subscales in patients with IHD (P<0.001).

Intervention based on the PMT can be used as an effective intervention to increase treatment adherence in patients with IHD, depending on proper nutrition training, self-care skills, awareness-raising, and relaxation exercises.

Posttraumatic stress disorder in one of the most important mental problems of the veterans which bring about other difficulties for them; therefore, the present study addressed investigating the efficiency of cognitive-behavioral therapy on the decrease of depression and anxiety of the veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder.

It was a quasi-experimental study with pretest, posttest and control group design. The statistical population included the veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder in the city of Bandar Abbas in summer and autumn of 2019 who referred to the martyrs and veterans consultation centers in the province of Hormozgan. 24 veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder were selected through purposive sampling method and they were randomly replaced into experimental and control groups (each group of 12 veterans). The experimental group received ten ninety-minute sessions of cognitive-behavioral therapy during two-and-a-half months. The applied questionnaires in the current study included anxiety questionnaire, depression questionnaire and the questionnaire of post-traumatic stress disorder. The data from the study were analyzed through ANCOVA method using SPSS 23 software.

The results showed that the cognitive-behavioral therapy had significant effect on the decrease of depression and anxiety of the veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (p<0.001) and succeeded in the decrease of their anxiety and depression.

According to the findings of the present study it can be concluded that cognitive-behavioral therapy can be applied as an efficient therapy to decrease depression and anxiety of the veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder through employing techniques such as doing behavioral practices, identifying ineffective fundamental beliefs, and emotions resulting from rational and efficient thoughts.

The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of treatment based on Adler lifestyle and hope therapy on psychological cohesion and empathy in patients with multiple sclerosis in Tehran.

The study method was quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test-follow-up design with control group. The statistical population of this study included all men and women with multiple sclerosis who had filed in the Tehran MS Association. Using available sampling method, 45 patients were selected and randomly and equally divided into three groups of hope therapy, Adler-based lifestyle therapy and control group. Data collection tools were Antonovsky (1993) Mental Cohesion Scale and Davis Empathy Questionnaire (1983). The experimental groups underwent eight two-hour sessions of hope therapy intervention and Adler lifestyle intervention and the control group did not receive any intervention.

Data analysis using multivariate analysis of covariance showed that hope therapy is effective on psychological cohesion and empathy in patients with multiple sclerosis (P <0.01). Adler lifestyle therapy is effective on psychological cohesion and empathy in patients with multiple sclerosis (P <0.01). These results were maintained during the follow-up period.

Counselors and psychotherapists are advised to use these therapies in the long run to increase the psychological cohesion and empathy of patients with multiple sclerosis.

High blood pressure is one of the most common and important factors threatening individuals’ mental health and quality of life. Accordingly, the study of important psychological factors such as cognitive regulation of emotion and defense styles used by patients with high blood pressure, and the impact of these variables on their quality of life can help them improve their psychological state.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the structural model of the relationship between cognitive emotion regulation and defensive lifestyles with quality of life mediated by Alexithymia in patients with hypertension.

The present study is descriptive and of correlations and structural equations type. The statistical population includes 700 patients with hypertension who referred to Shiraz Heart Hospital in the spring and summer of 1398. 480 patients were selected from among them. The research instruments included the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire of Garnefski et al. (2007), the Defense Styles Questionnaire of et al. (1993), Quality of Life Questionnaire of the World Health Organization (1996) and the Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20 Questionnaire by Tyler et al. (1994). Data were analyzed by Kolmogorov-Smirnov test , linear regression and structural equation modeling using SPSS 25 and LISREL 8/8 software.

The relationship between emotional cognitive regulation variables and defense styles with quality of life variable mediated by alexithymia in patients with hypertension is significant
(P< 0.001).

Applying cognitive emotion regulation strategies and defensive styles to overcome alexithymia by patients with high blood pressure can affect the quality of life of these patients.

Development of psychological skills can be used to improve physical illnesses. Pain management strategies are one of the most important psychological skills and strategies that can help improve the disease. We aimed to investigate the effectiveness of self-care education and mindfulness-based stress reduction therapy on pain management strategies in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

The statistical population of the study included patients with RA referred to rheumatology centers in Isfahan, from which 30 people were selected as a sample. In the study, the effect of two interventions of self-care education and mindfulness-based stress reduction therapy on coping strategies was evaluated and compared.

The results showed that self-care training could have a significant effect on coping strategies (P=0.001). Mindfulness-based stress reduction therapy also had a significant effect on coping strategies (P=0.005) and comparing the effectiveness of two interventions showed that self-care training was significantly more effective than mindfulness-based stress reduction therapy on coping strategies in patients with RA.

Self-care training was more effective than mindfulness-based stress reduction therapy on coping strategies, and in general, both interventions were able to improve coping strategies in patients.

The patients with ischemic heart disease gradually stop following their treatment and self-care behaviors due to vulnerable physical conditions and high involvement in the treatment process. Therefore the present study was conducted to investigate the effect of the intervention based on protection theory on the drug complianceof the patients with ischemic heart disease.

The present study was quasi-experimental with pretest, posttest and control group design. The statistical population of the present study included the patients with ischemic heart disease at Payamabar-e-A’zam hospital in Bandar Abbas  who came there more than once in the period of March 2019 to May 2020. 16 patients with ischemic heart disease were selected through purposive sampling via paired method and randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups (each group of 8 patients). The experimental group received six ninety-minute sessions of protection motivation theory intervention during one-and-a-half months. The applied questionnaire included drug compliancequestionnaire (Morisky et.al, 2008). The data were analyzed through ANCOVA method via SPSS23 software.

The results of ANCOVA method showed that the intervention based on protection motivation theory has been effective on the drug compliancein the patients with ischemic heart disease (p<0.001) in a way that this type of intervention led to the increase of drug compliance (0.46)in these patients.

According to the findings of the present study it can be concluded that the intervention based on protection motivation theory can be used as an efficient intervention to increase drug compliance of the patients with ischemic heart disease with the emphasis on teaching correct nutrition, self-care skills, increasing awareness, and relaxation exercises.

Resilience is one of the factors that can prevent psychological problems among young people and adolescents. The purpose of the present study was to design and explain a psychological resilience model based on the feeling of social support through hardiness among high school students in Sari, Iran.

The present descriptive-correlational study was carried out on a total of 280 first-grade students in the high schools of Sari selected using multistage cluster sampling. Resilience questionnaire, social support questionnaire, and problem-solving questionnaire were employed for data collection. The Pearson’s correlation coefficient and structural equation modeling were utilized to analyze the data using SPSS.22 and AMOS.22.

The mean age values of the male and female students were reported as 13.4±2.4 and 13.8±2.5 years, respectively. The obtained results of the current study showed that there was a positive relationship between social support with resilience and hardiness. Hardiness also mediated the relationship between social support and resilience. Among the components of social support, the most influential factor was related to family support, and the most effective factor in resilience was the notion of competence and acceptance of love. In addition, the most effective factor in hardiness was the component of commitment.

The results of the present study revealed that hardiness and resilience increased with the enhancement of social support. The impact of social support on resilience also increased partially as a result of increased hardiness.

Addiction researchers find that addictive processes are influenced by patient beliefs and attitudes. This research was carried out to assess the role of dysfunctional attitudes, outcomes of psychology in substance abuse behaviors of subject were referred to addiction treatment center in the city of Bandar Abbas, and to compare the with the control group. This is a retrospective study in which 100 subject substance abusers were compared with 100 subject s of control group who were selected using convenience sampling and were also demographically matched. Data were gathered using a demographic questionnaire, clinical interview, dysfunctional attitudes scale (DAS), Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS). The data were analyzed via descriptive statistic method, T- Test and chi-square and variance analysis. Findings indicated that in comparison with control group, subject of substance abusers had experienced more stress, anxiety, depression, had shown a cognitively more percent of them dysfunctional attitudes in comparison with control group. The results suggested that the dysfunctional attitudes could be as a Vulnerability Factor that increase abuse of substance; consequently use of cognitive therapy could be helpful and effective in prevention and treatment of the addicts.