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Pregnant women are vulnerable to various types of stress, thus being more exposed to psychological and physical problems than others. Accordingly, educational and psychological interventions for this period are essential for this group of people in society. Therefore, this study aims to determine the effectiveness of mindfulness training on a lifestyle that promotes health and ego strength in pregnant women.

The present research is a quasi-experimental study with a pretest-posttest design. Its statistical population includes all pregnant women, from 25 to 35 years old, in Tehran from the fall of 2019 to the spring of 2020. The sample size in the experimental methods is equal to 15 people for each group. Therefore, 15 people in the experimental group and 15 in the control group are considered. The sampling method is available due to the nature of the research samples. The data collection tools are as follows: a) Walker Health Lifestyle Questionnaire (2003) and b) Igo Power Psychological Questionnaire (PIES). The data of this study are analyzed using an analysis of covariance.

Mindfulness training is effective in health-promoting lifestyle in the component of nutrition (F: 11.812), exercise (F: 8.961), health responsibility (F: 9.187), stress management (F: 9.187), interpersonal support (F: 10.976), and self-fulfillment (F: 11.707), ego power in the component of hope (F: 12.218), love (F: 11.98), loyalty (F: 9.219), care ( F: 9.202), and micro (F: 12.875).

Based on the findings, mindfulness training enhances the health and ego strength of pregnant women.

The aim of this study was to investigate the modeling of Internet addiction based on social support with mediation alexithymia in high school students. The method of the present study was descriptive and structural equation modeling. The statistical population of this study consisted of all high school students in Sari in the academic year of 2014-2015. 361 students (178 girls and 183 boys) were randomly selected and completed the Zimt Social Support Scale, the Toronto Mediation Alexithymia Scale, and the Kimberly Young Internet Addiction Scale. The results of regression equations showed that social support has a direct effect on Internet addiction and indirectly mediation alexithymia. alexithymia have a positive and significant relationship with Internet addiction. Also, social support shows a negative and significant relationship with alexithymia (p <0.05). In total, the predictor variables predicted the 0.21 variance of Internet addiction. Therefore, in the field of Internet addiction in students, the variables of social support and alexithymia should be considered.

Chronic low-back pain is one of the psycho-physiological disorders with a high prevalence, resulting in severe health and economic consequences. Therefore, this study aims to compare the effectiveness of positive psychotherapy with cognitive-behavioral therapy on pain perception in males with chronic low-back pain.

This study was a quasi-experimental study with pretest, posttest, and control group with 2 months follow-up. The statistical population included all men with chronic low-back pain referred to the Trauma and Pain Clinic of the Healing Neuroscience Research Center at Khatam Ol-Anbia Hospital in Tehran in 2019. Using the available sampling method, 45people were selected and randomly assigned to three equal groups. Therapeutic interventions for each treatment approach were applied in 8 sessions once a week, and each session lasted 90minutes for the experimental groups; however, the control group did not receive any intervention. A researcher-made demographic information checklist and McGill pain questionnaire were used to collect data. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and repeated-measures analysis of variance.

There was a significant difference in the linear composition of the pain perception variables, as well as its dimensions, including pain sensory, affective, evaluative, and miscellaneous in terms of group membership at the three stages of pretest, posttest, and follow-up, and the interactive effect of the group and time (p < 0.05). Besides, the two treatment groups (positivist psychology and cognitive-behavioral therapy) showed significant differences with the control group in terms of the components of pain perception and its dimensions (p < 0.05). There was no significant difference between the effectiveness of these two treatments (p>0.05).

Positive psychotherapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy effectively improve pain perception in patients with chronic low-back pain. Thus, these programs can be recommended as adjunctive therapy to trauma and pain clinics.

Nurses are among those who are stressed due to their high sensitivity job in the workplace. In addition, stress is associated with self-handicapping. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to compare the perceived stress and self-handicapping of nurses in various work shifts. Participants of this causal-comparative study were 72 nurses (32 morning shifts and 40 evening and night shifts) in one of hospitals in Tehran city during 2016-2017 that were selected by available sampling process. Determination of sample size was performed using Cochran’s formula. One-way analysis of variance was used to assess the difference between the three shifts. The results showed that there was no significant difference between the three groups in perceived stress. The results of multivariate analysis of variance showed that there is a significant difference between the three groups of nurses (p=0.001), so that in the claimed self-handicapping, the means of alteration changed from low- to high- values respectively in the morning to night shifts and, reversely, it was from high- to low- values in behavioral self-handicapping. Perceived stress among nurses seems to be high due to the sensitivity of this work. In the context of self-handicapping, as the nurses should be decision-makers due to reduced access to specialists at nights, this feature is bolder.