جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « HD » در نشریات گروه « پزشکی »

Age-related aspects of addiction are one of the most important public health challenges in the world and also in Iran. Therefore, the present study aimed to compare the level of common cardiac factors in addicted and non-addicted older adults.

This case-control study was conducted on 230 older adults over 60 years in Birjnd, the capital of South Khorasan, Iran. A total of 115 older adults with at least one year of drug use history and 115 older adults without a history of addiction were included in the study. A questionnaire containing demographic and addiction information was completed for each subject. Body mass index (BMI), as well as systolic and diastolic blood pressure, was determined. Blood samples were taken from each individual after 12 hours of fasting to measure fasting blood sugar (FBS), and lipid profile (HDL, LDL, total cholesterol, and triglyceride).

There was no significant difference in FBS between addicted and non-addicted older adults (P> 0.05). In the lipid profile, there was only a significant decrease in triglyceride levels in the addicted group compared to their non-addicted counterparts (P=0.02). Mean blood pressure in the addicted group was significantly lower than that in the non-addicted group (P=0.01).

As evidenced by the results of this study, opium dependence does not seem to have a protective effect on blood sugar and lipid profiles. Therefore, education and promotion of community health literacy, especially among older adults, are necessary to improve traditional beliefs about opium use.

Emotion regulation is one of the most important problems in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The aim of this study was to investigate effectiveness of mindfulness based stress reduction–children (MBSR–C) on emotional self–regulation and emotional resilience in students with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

in a semi–experimental study with pre–test–post–test design, 24 students with AD/HD selected by convenient sampling method, assigned to experimental, and control group randomly. The research instruments were child and youth resilience measure (CYRM) and emotion regulation checklist. MBSR–C program was used eight sessions on children with AD/HD and the control group did not receive any intervention. SPSS 18 was used for data processing and MANCOVA was used to analyze the data. The significance level was considered as 0.05 in all tests.

the results revealed that mindfulness based stress reduction had significant effect on emotional self–regulation (p<0.001) and emotional resilience (p<0.001) in patients with AD/HD. From resilience components, MBSR–C had significant effect only on caregiver components (p=0.030). As well as, from emotional self–regulation, MBSR had significant effect on emotional liability/negativity (L/N) (p<0.001) and emotion regulation (ER) (p<0.001). 

According to the results, it concluded that MBSR–C had effect on emotion modulation and regulation and enhancing of resilience of children with AD/HD. It is suggested that the mindfulness based stress reduction–children (MBSR–C) be used along with other interventions to regulate the negative emotions of these children.