جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "affective symptoms" در نشریات گروه "پزشکی"

Fever, gastrointestinal symptoms, lethargy and weakness, headache, shortness of breath, and cough are usually clinical symptoms of COVID-19. This study aimedto investigate the effect of plasma cluster in improving the clinical symptoms of patients with COVID-19.

This study was a double-blind clinical trial that was conducted on patients with COVID-19at Imam Hassan (AS) Bojnurd Hospital. In the intervention group, the plasma clusters device was turned on continuously for 8 hours and then turned off. In the control group, the device was placed in the room, and the ionization part of the device was removed from the circuit. Patients were monitored for five days after the intervention in terms of improvement of clinical symptoms. Data analysis was done with T, χ2, and variance tests in repeated measures.

The results showed that fever on the first day and weakness and lethargy on the first and third days of the disease showed a significant decrease compared to the beginning. Other clinical symptoms of the patient did not show any significant difference in the two groups. Also, the clinical symptoms showed significant changes in the improvement of the symptoms of COVID-19 in the intervention group compared to the control group. However, there was no significant difference in body temperature between the two groups.

Therefore, along with routine treatments, the cold plasma device can be helpful as an auxiliary factor in improving patients' symptoms and treating them faster.

Psychological factors might play a role in the onset and exacerbation of cardiovascular disease. This study aimed to determine the relationship between Alexithymia and Emotional Maturity with the mediation of Attachment Styles among cardiovascular patients in Zanjan, Iran. The present study has a descriptive-correlational design. The statistical population of this study encompassed a range of 670 patients with cardiovascular diseases who were referred to the Cardiology Clinic of Ayatollah Mousavi Hospital in Zanjan from March and August 2019. The sample size was estimated to be 244 people using Cochran formula. Data collection tools included Hazen and Shaver’s standard adult attachment style questionnaire, Toronto’s ataxia, and Singh and Bhargava questionnaires. The Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression analyses were done using SPSS 24 software. There was a positive correlation between alexithymia with emotional instability (r=0.14, P<0.01), personality decay (r=0.36, P<0.01), and emotional maturity (r=0.38, P<0.01). The results of multiple regression analysis showed that emotional instability (P=0.009), personality decay (P=0.016), and emotional immaturity (P=0.009) significantly predicted secure style. Additionally, difficulty in describing emotions significantly predicted avoidant style (P=0.034). Emotional maturity (P=0.006) and difficulty recognizing emotions (P=0.009) also significantly predicted ambivalent style. Personality traits and emotional alexithymia can be used as indicators for predicting attachment styles and social behaviors, and specifically, lack of emotional stability, personality disintegration, and emotional alexithymia can predict secure and ambivalent styles to some extent. Also, difficulty in describing emotions and emotional immaturity have the ability to predict the avoidant style. These results can help to better understand individual behaviors and design solutions to improve behavior.

In the early years of schooling, factors such as being far from parents for 5 hours, academic and social demands can be stressful for children and provide the conditions for creating or intensify some mental disorders. Therefore, it is important to investigate the prevalence of emotional-behavioral disorders and their related factors at this age.

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of emotional-behavioral disorders with and without comorbidity in children aged 6 to 8 years, and also to predict the severity of these disorders based on the mother's reaction to the child's negative emotions.

The research method was descriptive-analytical. The population included all the first and second grade primary school students of Malayer city in the academic year 2017-2018, and 454 people were selected by cluster sampling method. In order to collect data, the Child's Behavior Checklist (2002) and the Child's Reaction to Negative Emotions Questionnaire (1990) were used. Data were analyzed through SPSS version 22 software and stepwise linear regression model was employed.

The findings of the present study revealed that, the pure prevalence of emotional and behavioral disorders in these children was 8.6% and prevalence with comorbidity of these disorders was 7.3%. In addition, mother's reactions to children's negative emotions could predict the severity of children's emotional-behavioral problems (P=0.001).

In the age range of 6 to 8, the comorbidity of emotional and behavioral disorders of these children is high and the mother's supportive or unsupportive reactions to the child's negative emotions play a significant role in it, so it is suggested that child psychologists and psychiatrists pay special attention to these findings in diagnostic interviews and treatment strategies.

Various studies have emphasized the main role of alexithymia and poor in eating disorders. This study aims to investigate the mediating role of alexithymia in predicting eating disorders based on body image in Iranian college students.

This is a descriptive-correlational study using structural equation modeling (SEM). Participants were 369 students of the Islamic Azad University of Qom Branch in 2020-2021, who were selected by a convenience sampling method. Data were collected using the eating attitude test, body image concern inventory, and Toronto alexithymia scale. Data were analyzed by path analysis.

The results showed that alexithymia increases the path between body image and eating disorders by 14% (β=0.140), indicating its minor mediating role in predicting eating disorders based on body image.

Alexithymia has a minor mediating role in the relationship between eating disorders and body image in Iranian college students. For more understanding of the relationship between eating disorders and body image, it is recommended to assess the possible role of other biological and psychological factors.

Chronic pain is one of the most common medical problems that affects the lives of patients from biological, social, professional and educational aspects.

The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of emotion focused therapy on anxiety sensitivity and pain catastrophizing in Patients with chronic pain and alexithymia.

  This research was a experiential study with pre, post-test and follow-up with control group. The statistical population included all patients with chronic pain in Isfahan city in 1400. Sampling was done by available and voluntary sampling method and in two stages. In this way, 24 patients with chronic pain who scored above 60 in the Tronto alexithymia questionnaire (1994) were selected and randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups (n = 12). The experimental group received online emotion-focused group therapy for 12 weekly sessions and the control group did not receive any intervention. Instruments were Sullivan's pain catastrophizing scale questionnaire (1995) and Taylor and Cox's anxiety sensitivity questionnaire (1998), which were completed in three stages of the research. data were analyzed using repeated measure analysis.

The results of data analysis showed that there is a significant difference between the adjusted averages of anxiety sensitivity and pain catastrophizing in the two groups (P<0.05). Therefore, it can be concluded that emotion focused therapy is effective on anxiety sensitivity and catastrophizing pain in Patients with chronic pain and alexithymia (P<0.05).

Considering the effect of emotion focused therapy on research variables, this treatment method can be used to improve Patients with chronic pain and alexithymia.

Stress in any physical illness makes its symptoms worse. Hypertension is a common illness that psychological factors such as stress can worsen its symptoms and complications; the present study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of Roy's adaptation model on alexithymia and diet adherence in people with hypertension comorbid with stress.

This was a quasi-experimental study with a pretest-posttest design and a control group. Using the convenience sampling method, 40 patients with hypertension comorbid with stress    (21 females and 19 males) who were referred to Aligudarz city medical centers in 2021, were selected by convenience sampling method and randomly assigned to the experimental (n=20) and control (n=20) groups. The experimental group received a Roy's adaptation model intervention for 8 sessions of 60 minutes, but the control group did not receive any intervention. The data were collected by the stress, anxiety and depression questionnaire, Toronto emotional dysfunction scale, diet information record form and a form for assessing Roy’s adaptation model.

The results of covariance analysis showed that Roy's adaptation model was significantly effective in reducing alexithymia (F=235.24, p<0.01) and increasing diet adherence (F=540.87, p<0.01) in hypertension patients comorbid with stress.

 The results of this study suggest that Roy's adaptation model significantly decreased the alexithymia and increased diet adherence, therefore using Roy's adaptation model in hypertension patients comorbid with stress is recommended.

Due to the increasing prevalence of disordered eating in young women, it is one of the significant issues in psychopathology. Alexithymia plays an important role in unhealthy eating behaviors, but how mood problems lead to unhealthy eating behaviors remains unanswered. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between alexithymia and unhealthy eating behaviors and the mediating role of psychological distress in the relationship between alexithymia and unhealthy eating behaviors.

The research method is descriptive and structural equations modelling. The statistical population was all female students from universities of Science and Culture, Shahid Beheshti, Alzahra, Allame Tabatabaei in Tehran in 2019, from which 350 students were selected by convenience sampling and completed the Dutch Eating Behavior Scale (DEBQ), the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20), and the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K-10). Data were analyzed using Pearson’s correlation and path analysis.

Psychological distress was positively associated with alexithymia (r=0.44, p<0.001), external eating behaviors (r=0.28, p<0.001), and emotional eating behaviors (r=0.22, p<0.001). In addition, results of path analysis showed that psychological distress mediated the relationship between alexithymia and unhealthy eating behaviors.

Considering the mediating role of psychological distress in the relationship between alexithymia and unhealthy eating behaviors, using strategies to promote understanding and expressing emotions and reduce psychological distress is recommended. These strategies can be helpful in improving mental health and preventing unhealthy eating behaviors.

Alexithymia and lack of understanding and expression of emotions are very common in patients with epileptic seizures. Psychiatric non-epileptic seizures are among the disorders that have epilepsy-like symptoms, and are often confused with epilepsy. The aim of this research was to study the effectiveness of partner-assisted emotional disclosure therapy on alexithymia in patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES).

In this research, a single case experimental design with multiple asynchronous baseline was used. The research population was all patients with non-epileptic psychiatric seizures who referred to psychology and neurology clinics in Ahvaz City, Iran, in 2018. The effectiveness of 6 sessions of partner-assisted emotional disclosure therapy on alexithymia was evaluated at three stages of baseline, posttest, and follow-up. Three patients were purposefully selected based on inclusion and exclusion criteria. Data gathering tool was Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS). For data analysis, the Reliable Change Index (RCI), clinical significances and visual inspection were used.

The RCI for the alexithymia variable in the first to third patients was 4.46, 2.72, and 4.83, respectively. According to RCI > 1.96, the reliable change index was significant. Moreover, the recovery rates for the first to third patient were 50%, 29%, and 52%, respectively, which indicated the success of treatment in the first and third patients, and relative success in the second patient.

The partner-assisted emotional disclosure therapy is effective in reducing alexithymia in patients with non-epileptic seizures.

Suicide can be defined as a conscious act of self-harm that leads to death.

The aim of this study was to comparison attachment styles and alexithymia in suicidal attempts and control group.  

In this casual comparative study, 100 individuals (50 suicide attempts and 50 normal individuals) were selected by convenience sampling. All participant completed the attachment styles questionnaire and Toronto emotional alexithymia scale. Data were analyzed using MANOVA by SPSS-21.

The results showed that the difference between two groups was significant in difficulty in regulating emotions. Also, the difference between the two groups in avoidant and secure attachment style is significant (p<0.05).

According to result, it can be argued that interpersonal and emotional factors play a meaningful role in suicide. It seems that interpersonal factor and emotional characteristic should be considered in planning for prevention and treatment of suicide.