جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "severity of symptoms" در نشریات گروه "پزشکی"

Posttraumatic stress disorder is a set of clinical symptoms that occurs following exposure to life-threatening events, and affects a variety of psychological variables. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of prolonged exposure therapy on social support and the severity of symptoms in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder.

This was a quasi-experimental study with pretest, post-test and a two-month follow-up design and a control group. Using stratified sampling method, 30 patients (15 subjects in each group) with post-traumatic stress disorder referred to Farabi Psychiatric Clinic in Kermanshah City selected and they were randomly assigned. The Mean age of the sample group was 31.9.The study inclusion criteria was having PTSD based on clinical interview. The study exclusion criteria included having psychosis symptoms, drug addiction. The data were collected by structured clinical interview (SCID-I), social support scale (MOS), and the fifth edition of the post-traumatic stress disorder index (PCL-5). Data were analyzed by repeated measures ANOVA test.

The results showed that prolonged exposure therapy was significantly effective in increasing social support (F=2/66, P<0/01) and reducing the severity of symptoms (F=42/19, P<0/01) among the patients with post-traumatic stress disorder.

These results indicate that prolonged exposure therapy can alleviate the symptoms of the patients with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Irritable bowel syndrome is the most common, expensive, and debilitating gastrointestinal dysfunction. Psychological factors have a profound effect on its onset, duration and severity. This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of mindfulness based cognitive therapy and Iranian-Islamic positive therapy on pain catastrophizing and symptom severity in women with irritable bowel syndrome.

In this study, semi-experimental research was done on three groups with the two-step plan of pre and post-test.The study sample consisted of 45 women with irritable bowel syndrome in the age range of 18 to 50 years in 2019 which were selected by purposive sampling based on inclusion and exclusion criteria with random assignment in three groups (one control and two experimental groups). To measure the research variables, ROME III diagnostic tool, the diagnostic structured interview for DSM-V-RV (SCID-I), Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS) and Bowel Symptom Severity and Frequency (BSS-FS) questionnaire were used in pre-test and post-test phases were used. The groups of mindfulness based cognitive therapy and Iranian-Islamic positive therapy were treated for 8 sessions and the control group remained in the waiting list. Data were analyzed using SPSS23 software and ANCOVA test.

The results showed that there was a significant difference between mindfulness based cognitive therapy and Iranian-Islamic positive therapy with control group in pain catastrophizing (p < 0.01) and severity of symptoms (P < 0.01), but no significant difference was seen between the two treatments (p>0.05).

Based on the findings of this study, it seems that mindfulness based cognitive therapy and Iranian-Islamic positive therapy can be used as a psychological treatment to reduce the catastrophizing and severity of symptoms in women with irritable bowel syndrome.

Irritable bowel syndrome is a gastrointestinal disorder that is diagnosed from a clinical point of view with symptoms such as changing bowel movements, pain, and feelings of abdominal dilation, and in addition to arbitration therapy, it requires psychological interventions. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of short-term dynamic psychotherapy on the severity of symptoms and the perception of disease among patients with irritable bowel syndrome.

The research design was applied and quasi-experimental with pretest, posttest, and a three-month follow-up with a control group. Participants included 30 patients with irritable bowel syndrome in Tehran in 2020, who were selected via convenience sampling method and were randomly assigned to one experimental group and one control group, each consisting of 15 people. Before the intervention, a pretest was held, and then the experimental group received 12 90-minute short-term dynamic psychotherapy, while the control group did not receive any intervention. Then, the posttest was performed, and after three months of posttest, a follow-up was included. Data were collected via the Severity of Symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome and theShortened Illness Perception Scale. Data were analyzed by SPSS software via univariate analysis of covariance.

In the experimental group, the mean (SD) severity of symptoms decreased from 150.0 (22.3) in the pretest to 124.4 (17.0) in the posttest, and 120.5 (0.2) in the follow-up (P<0.001). Illness perception increased from 40.4 (3.5) in the pretest to 48.4 (3.5) in the posttest, and 48.7 (3.3) in the follow-up (P<0.001).

Short-term dynamic psychotherapy reduced the severity of symptoms and increased disease perception among patients with irritable bowel syndrome.

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Optomizing Women’s health should be one of the main goals of social and economic development of a society. The purpose of this study was to determine the efficacy of mindfulness-based stress reduction on the severity of symptoms and pain-catastrophizing in students with premenstrual dysphoric disorder.

The method of this study was a pre-test, post-test, and control group with a follow-up period of 45 days. 370 subjects were selected by available sampling methods from the students of Isfahan Islamic Azad University (Khorasgan) and were screened with a Premenstrual Symptoms Screening Tool (PSST). 30 who were found to have premenstrual dysphoria and were randomly assigned to either the test or control group. The instruments used for measuring symptoms were a daily Record of Severity of Problems and the Pain Catastrophizing Scale. The experimental group received treatment consisting of 8 sessions of 90 minutes of mindfulness-based stress reduction. No intervention was performed on the control group. The data was analyzed by SPSS-22 software, using multivariate analysis of covariance analysis. Findings: The treatment of mindfulness-based stress reduction had a significant effect on symptoms (physical and psychological) and pain-catasrophizing (rumination, magnification and helplessness) in post-test and follow up of 45 days (P >0.01).

Mindfulness-based stress reduction is an effective treatment to improve the severity of symptoms and Pain-Catasrophizing of Premenstrual Dyhsphoric Disorder.