جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "internal external control" در نشریات گروه "پزشکی"

Many studies have shown that imagining God is effective in internalizing the emotional control of anxiety. The present study was conducted with the aim of further investigating the effect of this variable.

In this semi-experimental study, 60 patients were selected from the patients who were candidates for heart surgery, admitted to the surgical departments (30 in the experimental group, 30 in the control group). Beck's anxiety questionnaires, God image inventory and researcher-made attributive questionnaire form C (reconstruction of Wiener scale) were used. People in the intervention group, in addition to drug treatment, with cognitive-behavioral method with emphasis on Islamic thoughts, two group discussion sessions; They received problem solving training based on spiritual skills, but the control group only received drug treatment. The data obtained from the pre-test, after the end of the training session and follow-up one month after open heart surgery, were analyzed through SPSS software.

Data analysis showed that the perception of God has a positive correlation with the locus of control (r = 0.723 **), but the locus of control has a negative correlation with the emotion score (r = -0.597). Also, the results showed that the average anxiety scores in the experimental group in the post-test and follow-up phase were significantly different from before the intervention compared to the control group (P=0.0001). Also, the analysis showed that there is a significant difference between the average scores of the control position and the average of the subscales of perception of God (influence, divine providence, acceptance, presence, challenge, benevolence) in the two experimental and control groups in the follow-up phase (P=0.0001).

Designing and implementing group logotherapy can be an effective approach to reduce anxiety before heart surgery and increase the place of internal control and subscales of perception of God.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is one of the most common psychological disorders in today’s society in which a person individual and social behavior is affected. This disorder has devastating effects on the normal functioning of life. Therefore, the present study was aimed to determine the effectiveness of group reality therapy on social well-being, life expectancy and locus of control in women with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

The design of this study was pre-test/post-test/follow-up semi-experimental with a control group. The statistical population of the research consisted of allwomen with obsessive-compulsive disorder in Ahvaz city in 2018 of whom 30 individuals were selected through convenient sampling and then randomly assigned to the experimental group and control group (15 individuals in each group). The experimental groupwent through reality group therapy proposed (Glasser, 2003) for 8 sessions of 60 minutes. The control group did not receive any therapy. The research instruments included the Social Well-being Questionnaire (Keyes, 1998), Life Expectancy Questionnaire (Snyder et al., 1991) and Locus of Control Questionnaire (Rotter, 1966). Data were analyzed using repeated measurement analysis and bonfroni pursuit test with SPSS 24 software.

The results of the analysis showed that reality therapy had a significant effect on improving social well-being, life expectancy and the source of internal control and reducing the source of external control in women with obsessive-compulsive disorder in the experimental group compared to the control group. Remains in the follow-up stage (P <0.001). In the post-test stage as well as follow-up in the variables of social welfare, life expectancy and source of internal and external control in the control group with the treatment group there is a significant difference (P <0.001).

The results showed the effectiveness of group reality therapy on social well-being, life expectancy and internal and external locus of control in women with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Therefore, it is recommended that this approachto be used with other therapies to improve the psychosocial characteristics of individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

One of the important challenges in patient with chronic diseases specially diabetes is adherence to therapy of treatment. While the patients don’t follow the treatment program, They get into critical consequences like relapse of illness, intensification of disability, necessity of emergency and hospitalization. So the present study intended to investigate the relationship between health locus of control, slip memory and physician – patient relationship with aherence to therapy.

To carry out this research, 115 adults with type Π diabetes(men and women) who had referred to Glands clinic of Sina hospital in Tabriz from June to August 2010, completed the following five research questionnaires: demographic information questions, patient – doctor relationship questionnaire(PDRQ-19), General Aherence to therapy Scale(GAS), Prospective and retrospective memory questionnaire(PRMQ), and Multidimensional health locus of control(MHLC). In order to analyze the data, both descriptive and inferred statistics were applied including Pearsons correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis methods.

The study findings indicated that there exist a positive significant relation between external health locus of control(other- powerful), internal health locus of control and desired physician- patient relationship with adherence to therapy in diabetic patients of type Π. However, results revealed a negative significant relationship between slip memory and adherence to therapy.

The study results proposed that the patients with diabetes type Π, who regard more powerful individuals as responsible for their health like their physician, believe in their own role in control of their health in the second place. Furthermore, they had a desired relationship with their physicians, showed less slip memory, and displayed more adherence to therapy.