جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "family relations" در نشریات گروه "پزشکی"

Various factors, including family associations, school culture, personality traits, and lifestyle play a fundamental role in the development of drug addiction. This study aimed to investigate how the association of family communication patterns and school culture affect addiction tendencies among high school students in Yazd, Iran.

This cross-sectional study was conducted in January 2021. A total number of 420 people were selected using the random multi-stage sampling method. To collect data, addiction tendency scale, family communication pattern and school culture questionnaires were used. Data analysis was done using SPSS version 24, Pearson’s correlation coefficient, descriptive statistics, T-Tests and ANOVA.

The mean±SD for addiction tendency, family communication patterns and school culture was 40.24±7.65, 65.84±5.34, and 45.69±9.24, respectively. This study showed a statistically significant association between the mean score for addiction tendency and gender (P=0.01) and economic status (P=0.02). Among the two components of communication patterns, alignment orientation (R=-0.31, P<0.001) showed a negative association and conformity orientation (R=0.25, P=0.01) showed a significant positive association with addiction tendency. Additionally, all of the three components of school culture, namely, student relations (R=-0.23, P=0.02), student and teacher associations (R=-0.29, P<0.001), and training opportunities (R=-0.20, P=0.03) revealed a significant negative association with addiction tendencies.

According to the results of the study, it is recommended to implement family education programs in counseling centers, health centers and schools. These programs should emphasize the importance of creating a healthy communication pattern based on dialogue and active listening in the family. By promoting positive personality traits, young people can effectively combat their inclination towards drug use and decrease the chances of developing addiction.

Excessive use of cell phones in adolescents is associated with injuries and behavioral deviations. Cyberbullying is one of these behavioral deviations which involves deliberate and repeated aggression. Family and parenting factors are considered to have an essential role in cyberbullying. Among these factors, the cohesion and flexibility of the family have garnered considerable attention.

The present study examined the relationship between family adaptability, cohesion, and cyberbullying and the mediating role of parenting styles in this relationship.

Cross-sectional design and structural equation modeling (SEM) were used in this study. The statistical population included students using mobile phones in Tehran. A sample of 220 students was selected via convenience sampling. The Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scales, Cyber-Bullying/Victimization Experiences Scale, and the Parental Authority Scale were used to collect data. Statistical data analysis was done using the Pearson correlation test and structural equation path analysis in SPSS 26 and AMOS 26.

The results showed that There was a significant correlation between family cohesion and cyberbullying (r =- 0.246) (P < 0.01), family adaptability and cyberbullying (r = -0.167) (P < 0.01), family adaptability and cohesion and parenting styles (r = 0.433) (P< 0.01), authoritarian, indulgent, authoritative parenting style and cyberbullying (r = 0.289) (r = 0.124) (r = -0.143) (P< 0.01). These direct and indirect effects were created through the mediation of parenting styles.

Generally, the results showed that family adaptability and cohesion significantly negatively correlate with cyberbullying. The model showed family adaptability and cohesion, and cyberbullying did not have a direct relationship. However, perceived parenting styles can play a mediating role in this relationship.

The ability to create and maintain a satisfying relationship in the marital life requires an understanding of attachment styles, the family’s emotional atmosphere, recognizing and expressing mutual emotions, and understanding and accepting the spouse’s emotions. This study aimed to examine the role of family emotional atmosphere and attachment styles in predicting the alexithymia of married people.

This predictive correlational study was conducted on a sample of married men and women with marital communication problems who were referred to counseling centers in District 2 of Tehran Municipality in 2021. The subjects included 400 married men and women who were selected by stratified proportional sampling. The data were collected by the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20), the Family Emotional Climate Questionnaire, and the Adult Attachment Scale (AAS) and were analyzed using the correlation coefficient test and multiple regression analysis by SPSS software, version 22.

The results showed that secure and avoidant attachment styles were negatively correlated (r=0.38) with alexithymia. Furthermore, anxious/ambivalent attachment style was positively correlated with alexithymia (r=0.38). The family emotional atmosphere was negatively correlated with alexithymia (r=0.68) (P<0.01). Moreover, 46.6% of the variances in alexithymia were explained by family emotional atmosphere and attachment styles (R2=0.466).

The findings revealed that alexithymia as a psychological construct could be predicted by the family’s emotional atmosphere and the attachment styles of married people. Thus, providing training on social skills and emotional expression helps married people to identify positive and negative emotions and the inability to recognize their partner’s feelings

Family cohesion affects health, mental and physical well-being, academic achievement, and emotional health of the family with disturbance of family environment and feelings of depression, aggressive behaviors and delinquency, and disruption of family members' self-concept. This study aimed to comparison of the effectiveness of psychological education based on Olson's model and McMaster model on family cohesion of schizophrenic patients in Bushehr. The research method was semi-experimental with a pretest-posttest and follow-up design. The statistical population consisted of 425 patients in all families of schizophrenic patients who were treated in the province's medical centers (both governmental and non-governmental) in Bushehr in 2019. The sample size in this study will be 45 parents of schizophrenic patients. All of them had inclusion criteria and were selected by convenience sampling method and randomly assigned to the experimental and control group. Data obtained by Faces-IV Scale (Olson et.al, 1999) and analyzed using multivariate analysis of covariance and post-test by Spss.22. The results showed that psychological training based on the Olson model and McMaster model effectively improved family cohesion of schizophrenic patients (p <0.001). McMaster model was more effective than Olson model in improving family cohesion of schizophrenic patients in Bushehr (p <0.001). Providing psychological services is necessary to promote and cohere the families of schizophrenic patients, so it can be said that the Olson model and McMaster model can be used to promote and cohere the families of schizophrenic patients and provide the ground for their psychological care.

 The hierarchy of power, dynamic of cohesion, and family structure might be affected in families with psychiatric patients.

 This study aimed to compare the power, cohesion, and structure of healthy families and families with psychiatric patients.

 A cross-sectional study was conducted in Shiraz in 2018. Participants were 322 people from healthy families and families with schizophrenic, depressive, or bipolar disordered patients that were compared in terms of cohesion and hierarchy of power. Participants were selected by convenience sampling. Data were collected using the Family System Test, a clinically-derived figure placement technique. Data were analyzed using SPSS-19 with Chi-square and Kruskal Wallis tests at a significance level of less than 0.05.

 There was no significant difference in terms of power between the families of healthy people and the families of patients with psychiatric disorders (P > 0.05). The family of patients with major depression had less cohesion (8.57 ± 2.2) than had the family of healthy ones (P =0.01). The structure of healthy families was more significantly balanced than that of other groups (P = 0.008).

 The results indicated that the power, cohesion, and structure of families can be affected by members with psychiatric disorders. Mental health care providers should take into account the mental health of families of psychiatric patients.

Family cohesion affects health, mental and physical well-being, academic achievement, and emotional health of the family with disturbance of family environment and feelings of depression, aggressive behaviors and delinquency, and disruption of family members' self-concept. This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of psychological education based on Olson's model on family cohesion of schizophrenic patients in Bushehr. The research method was semi-experimental with a pretest-posttest and follow-up design. The statistical population consisted of 425 patients in all families of schizophrenic patients who were treated in the province's medical centers (both governmental and non-governmental) in Bushehr in 2019. The sample size in this study will be 30 parents of schizophrenic patients. All of them had inclusion criteria and were selected by convenience sampling method and randomly assigned to the experimental and control group. Data obtained by Faces-III Scale (Olson et al., 1983)and analyzed using multivariate analysis of covariance and post-test by Spss.22. The results showed that psychological training based on the Olson model effectively improved family cohesion of schizophrenic patients (p <0.001). Providing psychological services is necessary to promote and cohere the families of schizophrenic patients, so it can be said that psychological training based on family cohesion and flexibility can be used to promote and cohere the families of schizophrenic patients and provide the ground for their psychological care.

 This study aimed to evaluate the discriminant validity of family adaptability and cohesion evaluation subscales. We investigated families referring to counseling, family courts, substance dependence treatment centers, and healthy and clinically defined cutoff scores for the breakdown of healthy Iranian families. 

 This scale was validated by four psychologists and translated by a professional English translator. After conducting a pilot study on 30 subjects, the necessary corrections were made to the scale. Families from 7 provinces (N=1652 subjects, parents= 558, mothers= 576, mothers and children=518) responded to the scale. For data analysis, univariate Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and multivariate operating characteristic curves were used. 

The obtained results suggested that family mean normal score in all groups, clinical counseling, substance dependence, and family courts subscales suggested significant differences in terms of adverse life events, family interactions, family satisfaction, integrity, balance, flexibility, intertwined, torn, confused, and frustrated that there is flexibility (P<0/05). 

 The operating characteristic curve analysis to determine cutoff scores revealed the cutoff scores of family adaptability and cohesion evaluation subscales between normal and clinical diagnosis established optimum. Psychometric properties of the Persian version of family adaptability and cohesion evaluation is applicable for psychological research and clinical diagnosis. </div>

Internet is one of available modern communicational media that has created a new world for users; so that this virtual world may have irrecoverable implications. Hence, this study was conducted to examine the relationship between internet addiction, family relations, and psychological well-being among the adolescents.

In this descriptive and correlational study, statistical population consisted of all adolescents in Urmia City, Iran. The sample size obtained to 65 adolescents, who were addicted to internet; they were enrolled using convenient sampling method in some schools in Urmia. To collect the data, Internet Addiction Test (IAT), Family Assessment Device (FAD), and Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS) were employed. The data were analyzed using Pearson correlation and multiple linear regression tests through SPSS software.

There was a reverse significant relationship between internet addiction and family relations (-0.878) and subjective well-being among the adolescents (P < 0.050 for both).

According to obtained findings, it can be stated that internet addiction may lead to reduction in family relations and subjective well-being among the adolescents.

A successful aging pattern indicates a change in attitudes toward aging and life quality improvement, which include the components of general health and life satisfaction. The current study aimed to evaluate the effects of an educational program on successful aging components in the elders. A three‑stage empirical study was conducted on 72 individuals of 60‑75 years old who were randomly divided into two experimental and control groups. A 9‑session educational program presenting health‑related behaviors, including stress management and interpersonal relationships, was held for the experimental group. Two sessions of neutral topics group discussion were held for the control group. A Demographic Information Questionnaire, General Health Questionare‑28 (GHQ‑28), Diener’s Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) were used and completed before, immediately after, and two months after the intervention. Independent t‑test was used for analysis of obtained data via SPSS software. The mean (SD) score of general health in the two groups had no significant differences before the intervention [32.40 (14.70) vs. 30.8 (10.04)] (p = 0.60). The mean (SD) scores of general health immediately after intervention and two months later in the experimental group [20.2 (8.8) and 24.1 (8.05)] were significantly lower than control group [31 (9.8) and 30.9 (9.8)] (p < 0.05). The mean (SD) scores of life satisfaction in the both groups showed no significant difference before the intervention [16.8 (5.8) vs. 17.3 (5.5)] (p = 0.39), but were significantly different immediately after [20.4 (5.1) vs. 17.03 (5.1)] and two months after [19.8 (5.1) vs. 17.1 (5.1)] (p = 0.004). This study confirmed the effectiveness of health‑related educational programs in improving elders ‘general health and life satisfaction’.

This research aimed to investigate the relationship of family affective climate, self-effectiveness, and personal-social adjustment variables with academic achievement of university students in Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz branch, Ahvaz, Iran.
The research sample included 300 individuals (150 females and 150 males) who were selected through random stratified sampling method. California personal-social adjustment, Scherer and Adams self-effectiveness, and family’s affective climate questionnaires were administered to collect the data. Correlation coefficient and linear regression analysis were used for analyzing the data.
The results of the data analysis indicated that there is a significant relationship between variables of family’s affective climate, personal and social adjustment, and self-effectiveness with academic achievement of students (P Improving student’s self-effectiveness, personal-social adjustment, and family’s affective climate may have positive influences on their academic achievement.

The history of atherosclerotic disease among second degree family members of patients as a risk factor has not been properly explained. The present study aimed to assess this role in the Iranian population.
This case-control study was performed on 500 consecutive patients, who were candidates for coronary angiography. The presence of Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) history among first and second degree relatives were determined by interviewing the participants.
In total, 450 patients were shown to have CHD as the case group and 50 without CHD as the control group. Family history of CHD among first degree relatives was 39.1% for cases and 22.0% forthe controls with a significant difference (p = 0.018), however the history of CHD among second degree relatives was not statistically different in the case group and the control group (17.8% versus 8.0%, p = 0.079). In total, 80 patients had CHD with simultaneous history of disease among their second degree relatives, while 370 with CHD had no history of disease among their second degree relatives. Our study could not find a significant difference between the two CHD groups with and without history of disease among second degree relatives in terms of cardiovascular risk profile.
Despite the powerful effect of the presence of family history of CHD in first degree relatives on risk ofCHD and its severity, the presence of this history among second degree relatives cannot predict the risk for CHD.