جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "استرس کرونا" در نشریات گروه "پزشکی"

The COVID-19 pandemic is the most significant outbreak of a virulent coronavirus in the 21st century.

This study aimed to explore the structural relationships predicting COVID-19 Stress through experiential avoidance, mediated by Mental Strength, among Physical Education students.

A descriptive study was conducted on all physical education students at Mohaghegh Ardabili University in 2021. A sample of 170 individuals was chosen using convenience sampling and assessed using COVID-19 stress, mental strength, and experiential avoidance questionnaires. Data analysis was performed using structural equation modeling with smart pls3 software.

Findings indicated that mental strength and experiential avoidance directly and significantly influence COVID-19 stress, with experiential voidance showing an indirect effect mediated by mental strength.

The study suggests that to mitigate the adverse impact of experiential avoidance and enhance the positive influence of mental strength on individuals’ health, health psychologists should incorporate training on managing emotional responses to the coronavirus into their programs

The coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19) caused severe stress and decreased communication skills among various groups, including medical students. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the effect of communication skills training on the components of corona stress in students of medical sciences.

This study was applied in terms of purpose and followed a quasi-experimental design with a pretest-posttest and a control group. The research population included students of the Islamic Azad University of Tehran, Medical Sciences Branch, in the 2021-2022 academic years. A total of 170 students were selected as the sample by simple random sampling and were randomly divided into two equal groups through a draw. The experimental group received four 120-min sessions of communication skills training for one month, and the control group did not receive any training during this period and remained on the waiting list for training. The research tools included a demographic characteristics questionnaire and the “Corona Stress Scale”. The content validity was confirmed by experts’ opinions, and the reliability was calculated by internal consistency using Cronbach’s alpha coefficient. Data were analyzed using tests of chi-squared, independent sample t-test, and multivariate analysis of covariance in the SPSS software (version 26).

The results showed that the experimental and control groups did not significantly differ in any variables of gender (χ2=0.46, P=0.496) and mean age (t=-1.49, P=0.135). In addition, it was found that communication skills training reduced corona stress psychological states (F=1518.06, P=0.001), corona stress physical states (F=2197.35, P=0.001), and corona stress-related behaviors (F=1220.10, P=0.001) in medical students.

Communication skills training was effective in reducing the components of corona stress in medical students. Therefore, to reduce corona stress, communication skills training can be used, along with other effective training methods.

Self-care behaviors are the most common behavioral response in attempts to prevent corona stress in patients with diabetes. Therefore, this study aimed to compare the effectiveness of positive thinking skills training and behavioral activation therapy on self-care and corona stress in patients with diabetes mellitus.

This was a semi-experimental study using a pretest-posttest and follow-up design with experimental and control groups. The statistical population included all the diabetic patients referring to the Vanoshe Diabetes Clinic in Qaemshahr city, Iran in 2020-2021, from among whom 45 patients were selected by accessible sampling technic based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria and randomly divided into three 15-member groups, namely,  positive thinking skills training, behavioral activation therapy and a control group. The first and second experimental groups received positive thinking skills training in six 60-minute virtual sessions and behavioral activation therapy training in eight 70-minute virtual sessions, respectively, and the control group was in the waiting list. Data were collected using the Corona Stress Scale "CSS-18" and the Summery of Diabetes Self-Care Activities "SDSCA" and analyzed using the repeated measures of variance analysis and the Bonferroni post hoc test with SPSS-22.

The findings revealed that there was a significant difference between the two experimental groups and the control group. Both the positive thinking skills training and behavioral activation therapy interventions reduced corona stress (F= 15.73) and increased self-care (F= 16.17) in the patients, and the effects of the interventions in the follow-up phase were found to be continuing (p <0.05). In addition, the results of Bonferroni post hoc test showed that positive thinking skills raining was more effective than behavioral activation therapy on corona stress reduction (IJ= 9.02), while as regards self-care the behavioral activation therapy (IJ= 12.93) was more effective (p <0.05).

Based on the findings it can be concluded that positive thinking skills training and behavioral activation therapy interventions can be effective in improving self-care and corona stress reduction among diabetic patients. It is recommended that therapists and counselors use, in addition to other treatment methods, these therapies to improve the self-care and corona stress reduction in diabetic patients.

The emerging idea of a health-oriented academic lifestyle, which shows the most common behavioral indicators in facing academic challenges and is adapted from theories of achievement motivation, has recently been at the center of health psychologists' research in the academic field. Hence, the present research was carried out with the aim of designing and testing a model related to the antecedents and consequences of the stress Corona based on the health-oriented academic lifestyle in students.

 This applied research had a descriptive, correlational design. The statistical population of the study was comprised of all the 10th grade male students of the Islamabad-Gharb city in the academic year of 2021-2022, (N= 888). The Cochran formula was used to determine the sample size (n=268) and the sample was drawn via cluster random sampling method. To collect data, Corona Stress Scale (CSS-18) According to Iranian Lifestyle (Salimi et al., 2018) and the promoting and preventing educational health academic lifestyle behavior questionnaire (Salehzadeh et al., 2018) were used. In order to analyze the data, structural equation modeling with the partial least squares method, Smart-PLS 3.3 and SPSS 27 software was used.

The results of the research showed that academic optimism, academic engagement, and academic resilience have a significant effect on corona stress on students and corona stress has a significant effect on learned helplessness, Academic procrastination and on students' avoidance of work. Also, the proposed research model is supported by empirical data.

In general, based on the findings of the research, it can be stated that it is necessary to prepare for the management of the antecedents and consequences of critical and unpredictable conditions such as the coronavirus in the academic process of students.

The covid-19 pandemic has caused a lot of anxiety and stress among all students, especially medical students. Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim of determining the effect of communication skills training on the anxiety and stress of Covid-19 in students of medical sciences unit.

This was a semi-experimental study with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The research population was the students of Islamic Azad University, Medical Sciences branch, Tehran, in the academic year of 2021-2022. The sample of the research was 170 students who were selected by simple random sampling method and replaced randomly using lottery in two groups of 85 people including experimental and control groups. The experimental group received 4 sessions of 90 minutes for a month under communication skills training, and the control group did not receive training during this period and remained on the waiting list for training. The research tools were demographic information form, anxiety inventory and corona stress scale. The data were analyzed with chi-square, independent t tests and univariate analysis of covariance in SPSS-26 software.

The results of chi-square and independent t tests showed that the experimental and control groups did not differ significantly in terms of gender and average age (P>0.05). Also, the findings of the univariate covariance analysis test showed that communication skills training reduced the anxiety and stress of corona in medical students (P<0.001).

The results indicated the effective role of communication skills training in reducing the anxiety and stress of Corona in medical students. Therefore, health professionals can use the communication skills training method along with other effective training methods to improve the psychological characteristics related to Corona

Because of the similarity between some signs of panic disorder (PD) and COVID-19, individuals with PD like individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are vulnerable to negative outcomes of the pandemic. However, previous studies did not adequately address the impacts of COVID-19 on this disorder. Regarding the importance of cognitive mechanisms for both disorders, examining the cognitive impacts of COVID-19 is especially critical. The study aims to compare individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), panic disorder (PD), and nonclinical samples in terms of obsessive beliefs and COVID-19 stress, two years after the beginning of the pandemic.

Methods and Materials:

 In a survey, 127 individuals were recruited through purposive sampling. After being taken for the clinical interview, they were divided into OCD (n=42), PD (n=40), and nonclinical (n=45) groups. Participants responded to the Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire (OBQ-44), COVID-19 Stress Scale, and Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9). Data were analyzed by one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA), and Scheffe posthoc tests.

There were no significant differences between clinical groups based on any obsessive beliefs. In terms of socioeconomic outcomes and traumatic stress components of COVID-19 stress, there were no significant differences between clinical and nonclinical groups. However, individuals with OCD and PD obtained meaningfully higher scores in xenophobia and obsessive checking/ reassurance-seeking components, respectively, than other groups. Even two years after the beginning of the pandemic, clinical groups were significantly more concerned about the danger and contamination of COVID-19 than the nonclinical group.

Obsessive beliefs in individuals with PD are comparable to individuals with OCD during the pandemic. Also, individuals with PD engaged more in obsessive checking/ reassurance-seeking than individuals with OCD and the nonclinical group; it could burden extensive costs for the therapeutic system during the pandemic.

The prevalence of coronavirus and the formation of its mutant species has caused stress and anxiety in communities. Fear and anxiety caused by coronavirus are destructive and can lead to mental disorders in people. The aim of this study was to predict corona stress based on coping strategies with stress, quality of life and psychological well-being among nurses in Kermanshah.

The method of this research was descriptive-correlation. The statistical population consisted of all nurses in Kermanshah in April 1400. A total of 200 people were selected as a statistical sample by voluntary sampling through online response to questionnaires. In this study, Corona stress scale (Salimi et al., 1399), stress coping strategies questionnaire (Lazarus and Folkman, 1998), short version of the World Health Organization quality of life questionnaire (2004) and psychological well-being scale (Reef, 1989) were used. . Data analysis was performed using multivariate regression simultaneously with the help of SPSS-22 software.

The correlation results showed that stress has a positive relationship with emotion-oriented coping strategy and a negative relationship with problem-oriented coping strategy, quality of life and psychological well-being. The results of regression analysis showed that the strongest predictor of corona stress was emotion-oriented coping with Beta = 0.854, and yet all variables had a significant share in the regression equation.

The results of this study showed that the application of problem-oriented coping strategy and high quality of life and psychological well-being can be associated with a reduction in coronary stress. Therefore, by using strategies and interventions focused on increasing the levels of quality of life and psychological well-being, steps can be taken to reduce nurses' stress