جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "تفکر آینده نگر" در نشریات گروه "پزشکی"

With the spread of the corona virus in the world, in addition to physical problems in people who have been affected by this disease and have recovered, psychological effects are also observed in these people. Research has shown that post-traumatic stress symptoms are one of these consequences. This research was conducted with the aim of studying the predictive model of health belief on post-traumatic stress symptoms with the mediating role of prospective event thinking in people who have recovered from corona disease.

For this purpose, 383 people were selected by the available sampling method and completed the event impact questionnaire, health belief scale, and prospective thinking task. Data were analyzed using Amos and SPSS software.

The findings showed the significance of the predictive model of health belief on post-traumatic stress with the mediating role of prospective thinking. Also, direct and indirect paths in this model were significant at 0.05 level.

These findings indicate the importance of paying attention to people's cognitive beliefs in the field of health belief and their cognitive abilities and its effect on mental states after experiencing illness.

Autism spectrum disorder is a neurodevelopmental disorder. Recent research in this area has focused on cognitive deficits such as future thinking and PASS processes (Planning, Attention, Simultaneous, and Successive) in this group of individuals, in addition to diagnostic symptoms. It seems these deficits can explain the behavioral symptoms of the disorder. Therefore, present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of pivotal response treatment on future thinking and PASS processes of children with autism spectrum disorder.

Methods and Materials: 

The research design was quasi-experimental with pretest, posttest and follow up with control group. The study population included all children 8-6 years old with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder in Isfahan. The sample included 20 students with high-functioning autism selected through convenience sampling and divided into experimental and control groups. The experimental group participated in a 20- session’s intervention, 2 sessions per week. The Cognitive Assessment System (CAS), trip task, Autism Spectrum Screening Questionnaire (ASSQ) were used for data collection. Two months after the end of the intervention, both groups were followed up using CAS and trip task.

The scores of Future thinking and cognitive processes (planning) were significantly improved in the experimental group, compared to the control group.

This study shows promising results for pivotal response treatment as an intervention for improving cognitive components in children with autism spectrum disorder and suggest that cognitive components are malleable through implementation of pivotal response treatment.