جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « emotional well-being » در نشریات گروه « پزشکی »

One of the important areas of health and mental health of people in society is their emotional well-being experience, which is formed under the influence of several factors. The present study was conducted with the aim of examining the mediating role of psychological hardiness in the relationship between religious coping and emotional well-being of nursing students.

The current descriptive-correlational study involved the use of structural equation modeling and was conducted using the path analysis method. The research population included all the students of Qain School of Nursing and Midwifery in the academic year 2019-2020 (no=800), out of whom 180 were selected by available sampling method and completed online the Religious Coping Questionnaire by Pargament et al., Psychological Toughness Questionnaire by Kiamarei et al. and Keyes and Magyarmo’s Emotional Well-being Questionnaire. The relationships between the variables were analyzed by Pearson correlation test on SPSS software version 18 and the research model on Amos software. All ethical considerations were observed in this study, and the authors of the article declared no conflict of interest.

The results showed that positive religious coping (β=0.528, P<0.01) had a positive effect and negative religious coping (β=0.391, P<0.01) had a negative effect on psychological toughness. Positive religious coping affected emotional well-being both directly (β=0.329, P<0.01) and indirectly (β=0.153, P<0.01) through the mediation of psychological hardiness. Negative religious coping affected emotional well-being both directly (β=0.237, P<0.01) and indirectly (β=0.113, P<0.01) through the mediation of psychological toughness. Psychological hardiness had a direct positive effect on emotional well-being (β=0.289, P<0.01).

The findings show the importance of planning in order to improve psychological toughness and religious coping in promoting the emotional well-being of nursing students.

Elder abuse is a new type of domestic violence, which despite its high prevalence, its numerous consequences and psychological effects, receives less attention. Impairment in cognitive function and emotional health is found highly in older adults with experience of violence and abuse. Thus, the current study aimed to compare cognitive abilities (CAs) and emotional well-being (EWB) in older adults with and without experience of abuse. This was a causal-comparative study, of retrospective type. The statistical population included older men and women who referred to the retirement centers of Rasht, Iran in 2022-2023, among whom 164 people (72 with abuse experience and 92 without abuse experience) were selected using convenience sampling (based on the cut-off score of 4 in Hwalek-Sengstock’s elder abuse screening test and the elder abuse clinical interview). Data were collected using Nejati’s CAs questionnaire and Keyes and Magyar-Moe’s EWB scale. The Data were analyzed by Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) in SPSS-24 software. The results indicated that EWB and CAs (including memory, inhibitory control and selective attention, sustained attention, planning, decision making, cognitive flexibility) except for component of social cognition were lower in older adults with abuse experience in comparison to that of older adults without abuse experience (P<.001). These findings state that the experience of abuse has a destructive effect on CAs and EWB in older adults. Meanwhile, defects in CAs and EWB, as a risk factor, can provide the basis for elder abuse. Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to these variables in the design of preventive programs to prevent elder abuse as much as possible or design appropriate protocols for every older individual with experience of abuse.

Exercise has been proposed as a medicine for the control and treatment of cancer and its complications. The aim of the present study was to compare the effect of 12 weeks of high-intensity interval training and moderate continuous aerobic training on quality of life in women with breast cancer undergoing hormone therapy.

39 patients with breast cancer undergoing hormone therapy were randomly assigned to 3 groups: (1) high-intensity interval training (HIIT; n = 13), (2) moderate-intensity continuous training (MICT; n = 14), and (3) control group (n = 12). The intervention groups performed their exercises for 12 weeks, 3 sessions per week. Quality of life was measured using the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G) before and after the intervention. Data were analyzed using an ANCOVA test.

The physical well-being domain scores significantly improved in the MICT group compared with the control group (P = 0.010). The emotional dimension scores in both groups of HIIT (P = 0.010) and MCIT (P = 0.016) significantly improved compared with the control group. In the functional dimension, a significant difference was observed between the HIIT group and the control group (P = 0.050). Total quality of life scores for both the HIIT group (P = 0.001) and the MICT group (P = 0.005) were significantly increased compared with the control group.

The results of this study show that both interval and continuous exercise programs can improve quality of life in breast cancer patients, although a larger sample is needed to confirm the clinical significance of these initial findings.