جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "female–headed households" در نشریات گروه "پزشکی"

Women heads of households, due to their important role in the home, are exposed to various physical and mental illnesses, including stress and depression. Therefore, education in this field and increasing women's self-efficacy can improve the quality of life and health status of these people. This study was designed and conducted to investigate the effect of mindfulness based stress reduction(MBSR)on self-efficacy, reducing stress and depressive symptoms in female-headed households in Ilam.

The present study is a quasi-experimental study. Among women heads of households Sponsored by Imam Khomeini Relief Committee in Ilam, 30 people with high rates of depression and stress were randomly selected and .They were randomly divided into experimental and control groups (15 people eachgroup ). Eight 90-minute sessions of mindfulness-based stress reduction program were taught. Data collection tools were Depression, Perceived Stress and Self-Efficacy quetioners, which were completed by participants in three stages of pre-test, immediately after the intervention and two months after the intervention. The collected data were evaluated using SPSS software. Significance level was considered 0.05

After mindfulness training, significant changes in depression (p <0.001), perceived stress (p= 0.010), and self-efficacy (p <0.001) were observed in the experimental group. Also, two months after the educational interventions, the changes caused by the training were stable and the mean scores of depression (11.07 ± 1.09), perceived stress (19.80 ± 7.32) and self-efficacy (59.73 ± 6.40) There was a significant difference in pre-test in the experimental group (p <0.05)

The results of this study showed that MBSR education has a significant effect on increasing self-efficacy, reducing depressive symptoms and perceived stress.

Women heads of households have more psychological problems than other women and have a lower level of psychological well-being. The aim of present study was the Effectiveness of Concentration-Based Treatment on Happiness and Life Expectancy in female-headed households supported by the Welfare of Lamerd county.

The research method was quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest and follow up, with a control group. The study population contains all female-headed households supported by the Lamerd’s Welfare Office in 2020. Thirty people were selected by the accessible sampling method and were replaced randomly in the experimental and control groups fifteen individuals for each group. The two groups answered the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire(Argyle & Lu, 1989) and Hope Scale(Snyder et al.,1991) in three stages: pre-test, post-test, and follow-up. The experimental group received eight sessions of compassion-focused therapy and the control group did not receive any intervention. 

The findings of repeated measures showed that there is a significant difference between Happiness and life expectancy in the experimental and control group in the pre-test, post-test, and follow-up (P<0.01). The results also showed that the therapeutic effects remained at the follow-up stage. 

According to the findings, it can be concluded that compassion-focused therapy can be used to increase the happiness and life expectancy of female-headed households.

As a vulnerable social stratum, female heads of households are exposed to all kinds of psychological, social and economic harms. The present study aimed to determine the effects of resilience skills on psychological well-being and self-efficacy in female heads of households based on the Henderson and Milstein model.

This quasi-experimental study with an interrupted time-series design was conducted on 34 female heads of households presenting to local facilitation and development centers in the suburbs of Karaj, Iran, in 2020-2021. Once the eligible individuals were identified, data were collected using a self-efficacy questionnaire, a psychological well-being questionnaire and a resilience scale. The study variables were measured at three time points: Before, immediately after and three weeks after the intervention. On each measurement occasion, the data of each individual was compared to her own data from the other occasions. Using the resilience training program by Henderson and Milstein (1996), all the individuals were given eight 75-minute sessions. The collected data were analyzed in SPSS software, version 21.

According to the results, participants’ mean age was 37.91 ± 6.81 years and their resilience score was 47.26 ± 5.05. The results of the repeated-measures test revealed the effect of the intervention on the mean scores of self-efficacy and psychological well-being over time(P<0.001). The effect of the resilience training program was 69.6% on self-efficacy and 52.6% on psychological well-being.

By developing emotional capabilities, promoting spirituality and creating a sense of hopefulness and optimism in life, resilience training programs can be effective in improving individuals’ psychological health and self-efficacy.

Female-headed households are one of the most important, sensitive and vulnerable groups in society whose health status is important for facilitating and policy-making. The aim of this study was to determinate the relationship between health-promoting lifestyle and social well-being in female heads of suburban households of Karaj city.

Overall, 160 female-headed households of suburban of Karaj were selected by stratified random sampling method. Data were collected through the standard social well-being and Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile (HPLP) questionnaires. Data analysis was performed using Pearson correlation, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and multiple regression tests with a significance level of 5% by SPSS 22.0.
 

The results showed a significant positive correlation between health-promoting lifestyle and social well-being in female-headed households of suburban (r = 0.33, P-Value <0.01). Regression analysis showed that from subscales of the health-promoting lifestyle, interpersonal relationships (B = 0.31, P-Value = 0.014) and responsibility (B = 0.27, P-Value = 0.004) had the greatest impact on social well-being. Education level had a significant positive correlation with social well-being (r = 0.18, P-Value = 0.025) and health-promoting lifestyle (r = 0.20, P-Value = 0.01).
 

Health-promoting lifestyle, especially sub-scale of interpersonal relationships affect the social well-being of female-headed households of suburban. Given that the education level of these women was very low, it is recommended to pay more attention to education, especially the learning of individual and social skills in these areas

Understanding the multifactorial nature of health has shifted the traditional narrow focus on women's reproductive health to an acknowledgment of the influence of socioeconomic and cultural characteristics on their health status. The changing roles of women have also affected their health status. Social support refers to the emotionally sustaining qualities of relationships. In addition to social support, social trust is considered a key element of social capital and has received great attention, particularly in the area of public health. Family life is associated with multiple tensions and pressures for female–headed households. Thus, these women encounter numerous psycho–socio–economic problems that adversely impact their health. Women play a major role in family and community health; thus, it is essential to examine women's health in the community. Accordingly, this study aimed to develop a social health model based on social support and social trust in female–headed households.

The present correlational study employed a structural equation modeling. The statistical population of the study included all female–headed households in Rasht City, Iran, in 2019. Based on the ratio of the number of participants to the observed variables, the sample size was estimated as 380 individuals. To select the research sample, the city of Rasht was clustered based on different areas of the municipality. After randomly selecting 4 of the 5 districts, 2 neighborhood houses were randomly selected. Finally, considering the odds of sample dropout, 380 eligible individuals entered the study. Accordingly, after sample dropout, their number reached 358. The inclusion criteria of the research included female–headed households, no chronic physical illnesses, and substance dependence, and not receiving pharmacotherapy for chronic and specific physical or mental illnesses in the past 6 months. The exclusion criteria of the study were the violations of any of the inclusion criteria; all of which were assessed using a researcher–made demographic questionnaire answered on a yes/no scale. The Social Wellbeing Questionnaire–Short Form (Keyes, 1998), Family Social Support Questionnaire (Khodapanahi et al., 2009), and Social Trust Questionnaire (Saffarinia & Sharif, 2014) were used for data collection. Descriptive statistics, including mean and standard deviation, were used to analyze the obtained data. Structural equation modeling and Pearson correlation coefficient were also applied in AMOS and SPSS to analyze the collected data. The significance level of the tests was considered 0.05.

The path coefficient between social support and social trust (β=0.351, p=0.001), the path coefficient between social trust and social health (β=0.324, p=0.001), and the coefficient of the direct path between social support and social health (β=0.460, p=0.001) were positive and significant. Additionally, the total path coefficient between social support and social health was positive and significant (β=0.574, p=0.001). Finally, the indirect path coefficient between social support and social health with the mediating role of social trust was positive and significant (β=0.114, p=0.012). The present study results suggested that the hypothesized model had fitness with the collected data (χ2/df=3.31, CFI=0.934, GFI=0.912, AGFI=0.875, RMSEA=0.081).

According to the obtained findings, social trust mediates the relationship between social support and social health among female–headed households. Therefore, the role of social support and social trust in the health of women heads of households should be considered.

Health promoting behaviors are one of the key determinants of health. One of the most important situations in which health promoting behaviors are of particular importance, is about female marginalized households. Therefore, this study was conducted to determine the mean scores of health promoting behaviors and its six dimensions, and also its relation to self-efficacy, social support and demographic factors in the women-headed families of Urmia suburb in 2017.

This was a descriptive-analytic study and its statistical population was all the female heads of the suburban families of Urmia of which 384 were selected. Data were collected through demographic questionnaires, perceived social support, general self-efficacy and Walker Health Promoting Behavior Inventory. Descriptive statistics including mean and standard deviation were used to describe descriptive characteristics and, Pearson and Kendall's correlation tests were used to describe analytical features.

The mean of total health promoting behaviors was 111.62±20.45. Self-efficacy, perceived social support and demographic characteristics of marriage and education had a significant positive correlation with health promoting behaviors (P<0.001), but there was no significant positive correlation between occupation and age with health promoting behaviors.

According to the findings of this research, health authorities and health care providers can found self-efficacy increase for female heads of households by designing health promoting education programs. Also governmental organizations and families with supplying necessary emotional supports can provide an area of social support increase and consequently, a change in behavior, for suburbanized female heads of households.