mohammad hasan davazdahemami

Functional dyspepsia is characterized by a set of symptoms in the upper gastrointestinal tract due to an underlying organic cause and is one of the common causes of patients ’visits to gastroenterologists. A few researches have been conducted on the effectiveness of psychotherapy with respect to the psychological components of these patients. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of metacognitive therapy on emotional processing components of these patients.

In this study, 40 patients with dyspeptic symptoms were recruited after medical examination by gastroenterologists, performing H.Pylori test and undergoing endoscopy. Moreover, 20 of the patients were randomly assigned to a group for metacognitive therapy and another 20 to the control group. The Baker's emotional processing questionnaire was used at pre-treatment, post-treatment and three months after treatment for evaluating changes in patients' emotional processing styles. Finally, repeated measures analysis of variance was employed for data analysis by using SPSS 19.

The research data that was obtained by repeated measures analysis of variance indicated statistically significant differences in three emotional processing scales in metacognitive therapy group compared to the control group at pre-treatment, post-treatment and three months after treatment.

Compared to the control group, the metacognitive therapy of functional dyspepsia patients was more effective in the short-and long-term for coping with difficulty in emotional recognition and experience, difficulty in emotional control and expression as well as inadequate emotional processing.

The aim of this study was to determine the mediating role of self-compassion and self-differentiation in the relationship between attachment styles and psychological well-being in adolescents. This research was a correlational study by using structural equation modeling. In this study, 200 Orphan and bad parenting adolescents under the patronage of the Welfare Organization were selected by convenient sampling method from June 23 to August 6, 2016. Data collection tools are the Adult Attachment Scale (Collins, 1990), Psychological Well-being Scale -short form (Rayf, 1989), Self-Compassion Scale (Raes, 2011), and short-form of Self-Differentiation Scale (Drake, 2011). To test the statistical assumptions and research hypotheses, analysis of variance, correlation coefficient and path analysis fit indices, and Sobel test was used to measure the significance of the effect of the mediator variable. Self-compassion and self-differentiation decreased the negative effect of anxiety attachment on psychological well-being (P<0.05). Also, self-compassion decreases the negative effect of anxious attachment on psychological well-being (P<0.05). But the effect of self-diffrentiation in the relationship between avoidant attachment and psychological well-being was not significant (P<0.064). The results showed psychological well-being was decreased when anxious and avoidant attachment increased, Self-compassion and self-differentiation with decrease negative effect anxious and avoidant attachment on psychological well-being had a mediator role significant. Self-compassion increase significantly psychological well-being by reducing the negative effect of avoidant attachment. Although self-differentiation also increases psychological well-being by reducing the negative effect of avoidant attachment, this effect is not significant.

Breast cancer is one of the common cancers in many countries and in Iran that reduces self-efficacy. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of spiritual care on self-efficacy of women with breast cancer. This experimental study was carried out on 40 women with breast cancer in 2017 in selected centers of Qom. They were randomly divided into two groups of intervention (n=20) and control (n = 20). For the intervention group, six sessions of spiritual care (one session in a week and each session for 90 minutes) were performed. Demographic information and general self-efficacy questionnaire of Sherer et al. were utilized for data collection. The subjects completed the questionnaires before the intervention, immediately after the intervention and two months after the intervention. Data were analyzed using the SPSS software version 21. According to the results of the study, the groups had the same demographic and underlying characteristics. There was a significant difference between the intervention group and control group in the mean score of self-efficacy immediately and after the intervention. The effect level was 40.1%. Therefore, spiritual care education affected the self-efficacy in women with cancer. The design and the implementation of this program based on the educational and supportive care needs of patients.

The aim of this study was Comparision of intolerance of uncertainty and difficulties in emotion regulation in individuals with Body Dysmorphic and Social Anxiety. the study design was causal-comparative. using convenient sampling method and G-Power software, 65 people with scores higher than cutoff in SAD questionanire and 65 people with scores higher than cutoff in BDD questionanire were selected from patients who were referred to Otolaryngology clinic of Taleghani Hospital of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. All participants assessed by Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ-34), Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN), Difficulty in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) and Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale (IUS). Data were analyzed by t-test and analysis of variance tests. results indicated that people with Social Anxiety Disorder experience higher levels of intolerance of uncertainty than BDD people. Also, there was a significant difference between two groups in term of difficulties in emotion regulation. Social Anxiety Disorder and Body Dysmorphic Disorder were different in term of intolerance of uncertainty and difficulties in emotion regulation. This study indicated that Social Anxiety Disorder and Body Dysmorphic Disorder have different features, which is important in the diagnosis and treatment of them.

Aim and Negative and positive emotional states, temptation, and anxiety are among the most important risk factors for addiction. This research aimed to study the effect of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)-based emotional management training on anxiety and temptation in patients with drug abuse.
Methods and Materials: This was an experimental research with pretest/posttest method and control group. To select the sample, the available sampling method was used. Among patients with substance abuse in addiction treatment centers in Ahwaz City, Iran, based on clinical interviews, 28 were selected. They were randomly divided into two equal groups of experimental and control. Both groups passed the leaving and detoxification steps. The experimental group received 10 sessions of dialectical behavior therapy-based emotional management training, but the control group did not receive any intervention. The research tools were demographic questionnaire, Craving Believes Questionnaire (CBQ), and Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI).
Findings: After the intervention, there were significant differences between experimental and control groups regarding anxiety and temptation (P The current study indicated that dialectical behavior therapy-based emotional management training would be an appropriate treatment for university students in order to decrease the symptoms of anxiety and temptation in those with drug abuse.

The purpose of this study was to compare emotion regulation, mindfulness, existential anxiety in patients with cardiovascular diseases and healthy individuals.
In this case-control cross- sectional study, all cardiac patients who had referred to Taleghani hospital in Tehran over the year of 2016 were included. Out of this population, 61 patients with cardiovascular diseases were selected and 63 healthy subjects were selected from among the attendants of the patients. Instruments for collection of data comprised a demographic characteristics questionnaire, Difficult in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), five fact mindfulness questionnaire (FFMQ) and Existential Anxiety Inventory (EAI). To test the research hypothesis, Mann-Whitney U was used.
There was a significant difference between the two groups, with cardiovascular disease and normal subjects in the emotion regulation, mindfulness and existential anxiety.
Emotion regulation, mindfulness and existential anxiety are psychological factors with a potential impact on cardiovascular diseases and their effect is suggested to be taken into account in such disorders.

This research aimed to determine the efficacy of emotion focused therapy on quality of life and sleep problems of IBS patients. In this research 52 IBS patients who met this diagnosis, according the Rome II criteria, were selected and assigned to two experimental and control groups with 26 IBS patients in each group. The emotion focused therapy according Greenberg''s manual- was conducted in 8 weekly sessions in the clinic of gastroenterology in Isfahan. The questionnaires of quality of life and sleep problems were completed as the pretest, post-test and follow-up. Results of multivariate analysis of variance s shows that emotion focused therapy has been significant effect in reduction of post-test mean scores of quality of life, beginning of sleep and wake-up and follow-up mean scores of wake-up (p<0. 05). Emotion focused therapy could be useful to improvement of psychological status of IBS patients, but It seems to needs to probing more emotional experiences for more persistent effects.