جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « mental patients » در نشریات گروه « علوم اجتماعی »

Nowadays, due to the issues and problems of the car and urban lifestyle and the mental and intellectual controversies caused by this lifestyle, mental disorders of people are spreading. The spread of people's mental disorders, the consequences of which include the increase in crime; It will have consequences for society. The purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of mental illnesses on committing crimes based on legal concepts in 1402. This research is semi-experimental with a pre-test and post-test design with a control group. The Gertzo-Roemer Emotion Regulation Difficulty Questionnaire and the DASS Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale were the two measurement tools of this research. The research community was formed by patients with mental disorders who referred to the forensic doctor in Tehran. The sample size is 60 people who are randomly assigned to two experimental (30 people) and control (30 people) groups. To analyze the research data, coefficient of covariance tests were used with spss24 software. The reliability of the questionnaire was calculated and evaluated using Cronbach's alpha method, based on which the coefficient of the research variables and its dimensions was more than 0.7. In this research, by using inferential statistics, the relationship between the variables of depression, anxiety, stress, difficulty in impulse control, lack of emotional awareness, difficulty in performing purposeful behavior, non-acceptance of emotional responses with committing a crime was measured, and the relationship of all variables was confirmed. The results showed that the effect of mental illnesses in committing crimes is greater compared to the control group, which is a healthy group. That is, if a person with mental disorders is in a crime-prone situation, the probability of committing a crime increases compared to a healthy person.

This research investigated the effect of the body of the hospital spaces on stress in neuropsychiatric patients. From the statistical population, which includes all male patients (veterans and non-veterans) hospitalized in Isar Neuropsychiatric Hospital of Ardabil, a sample of 50 people was selected by available sampling during May to July 2019. For data analysis, multiple linear regression model was used, with 10 physical indicators of patient room architecture as independent variables and patients' stress level as dependent variable. The independent variables were evaluated by architectural experts and the 21-question DASS-21 questionnaire was used to calculate the amount of patients' stress. Natural light, control of disturbing noises, "variety in the shape, color and material of furniture" and the position of the patient's bed compared to other beds, furniture and openings respectively had the greatest impact on reducing patients' stress. In the case of veteran patients, artificial light, natural light, distance to the toilet, "the position of the patient's bed in relation to other beds, furniture and openings", control of disturbing sounds, and "variety in the shape, color and material of furniture" have the most impact on Veteran patients had a reduction in stress. In the case of non-veteran patients, only "natural light" had a significant effect on stress reduction. The findings showed that the architecture of interior spaces had a significant effect on reducing stress. Also, this effect is different between veteran and non-veteran groups. The effect rate was higher for veteran patients than for non-veteran patients.

Passing from mechanical and psychophysical approaches to social psychophysical approach, psychological diseases have been considered as a multi-aspect phenomenon and a cultural-social issue. This research aims to study and discover mental and conceptual implications of experience and perception of families having mental patients using a social interpretation approach. Data of this qualitative study were collected through semi-structured interviews, and for data analysis grounded theory method is used. Using theoretical and purposive sampling, 19 family members of mental patients were interviewed and finally collected data were analyzed in the framework of 18 pivotal categories and one core category. Based on study results, those interviewed considered mental patients the result of different conditions and backgrounds such as history of mental diseases, family disintegration, painful experiences, economic problems and abnormal behaviors and dissolution of support systems. Attendants in confrontation with presence of mental patients in the family resort to different reactions based on acceptance or non-acceptance of the mental patients, in a range from concealing, negating to accepting the disease and attempt for treatment. Conceptual reconstruction of experience and perception of patients’ families indicate the abnormality of mental illness, isolation and loneliness, as well as criticality of mental disease. Based on this study, presence of a mental patient has led to consequences such as stigma, fear of stigma, derision, self-desired social isolation, financial stress and family disintegration for patients’ relatives.