life quality

One of the side effects of radiation therapy for non-laryngeal head and neck cancers is laryngeal damage, leading to vocal disorders. Considering the impact of voice on the patient’s quality of life, the long-term follow-up after treatment using a voice handicap index questionnaire is the aim of this study.

This descriptive-analytical study included 30 patients with non-laryngeal head and neck cancers and 30 normal individuals. Specialized examinations have confirmed damage in the larynx. The VHI Questionnaire sub-group scores were assessed at 6 and 24 months post-treatment, along with the voice quality of patients and a control group at 24 months post-treatment. Pearson's correlation coefficient test was used to assess the relationship between each sub-group of the questionnaire at the two mentioned time points.

The patients' examination results revealed a significant decrease in the total questionnaire scores from 19.8 at 6 months to 11.37 at 24 months post-treatment (P < 0.05). The study found no significant difference between the patient and control groups after 24 months (P < 0.05). The questionnaire sub-group scores showed a negative correlation, indicating a trend of decreasing scores at the final follow-up.

This study showed that after the treatment, the radiation damage decreased over time and improved the patient's quality of life.

The use of existential group psychotherapy and mindfulness group therapy seems to be beneficial in improving the resilience and life quality of patients with hypertension.

The present study aimed to compare the effectiveness of existential group psychotherapy and mindfulness group therapy on resilience and life quality in patients with hypertension.

The research method was semi-experimental with a pre-test, post-test, and follow-up plan with a control group. The statistical population of this study included patients suffering from hypertension referred to Atiyeh Hospital in the second six months of 2022, and 30 of them were selected by purposive sampling and randomly assigned to 1 intervention group and 1 control group. The research tools included a demographic questionnaire, the "Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (2003), and the World Health Organization Quality of Life Questionnaire (1989). After conducting 10 sessions of existential group psychotherapy and 10 sessions of mindfulness group therapy for the intervention groups, the data were analyzed by using the method of variance analysis with repeated measurements and in SPSS version 24 software.                                                                                                          

Results of the Bonferroni post hoc test indicate a significant difference between the averages of the experimental and control groups for resilience and life quality variables and indicate the effectiveness of existential and mindfulness therapies. These results show that existential and mindfulness therapies were effective on the variables of resilience and life quality in the experimental groups (P<0.01).

It is suggested that to increase the resilience and life quality of patients suffering from hypertension, courses of existential psychotherapy and mindfulness therapy should be held for these patients along with drug treatments.

Covid-19 pandemic causes psychological and emotional turbulence and emergence of anxiety in many people in the society. The present study was conducted with the purpose of investigating the efficacy of emotional self-regulation training on the life quality and resilience of those recuperated from Covid 19.

The research method was quasi-experimental with pretest, posttest, control group and three-month follow-up period design. The statistical population of the study included those recuperated from Covid 19 with the record of hospitalization in the city of Bandar Abbas in the winter of 2020. 27 recuperated people from Covid 19 were selected via snowball method and randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups (13 people in the experimental and 14 in the control group). The experimental group received emotional self-regulation training during two-and-a-half months (in 10 sessions). The applied questionnaires in this study included resilience questionnaire (Conner and Davidson, 2003) and life quality (Luthans and Aliyev, 2007).

The results showed that emotional self-regulation training has been effective on the life quality (F=28.28; Eta=0.53; P<0001) and resilience (F=39.59; Eta=0.61; P<0001) of those recuperated from COvid19 with the record of hospitalization in a way that it succeeded in improving their life quality and resilience.

According to the findings of the present study, emotional self-regulation training can be used as an efficient method to improve the life quality and resilience of those recuperated from Covid 19 through employing increase positive experiences and reduce negative emotions, identify misjudgments, and train emotional discharge.

Nurses are the largest stratum of the healthcare system, and their workload increased greatly with the pandemic of the COVID-19 disease. Examining their social health and life quality is a very important matter that should be considered because it has a direct relationship with the quality of care they provide.

The present study is a descriptive-analytical study that was conducted in 1400 among nurses working in the COVID-19 department of teaching hospitals in Ilam city. After obtaining permission and receiving the code of ethics from the deputy director of research at Ilam University of Medical Sciences, WHOQOL and Keyes standard questionnaires were used to examine the quality of life and social health of nurses, respectively.

The average score and standard deviation of nurses' social health was 64.8±8.6 and the average score and standard deviation of nurses' quality of life was 67.5±22.9. The results showed that there is a significant relationship between the average social health score and quality of life (p<0.001) and the observed correlation was moderate and direct (r=0.5). Between social health and demographic variables of nurses no significant relationship was observed, but the rate of social participation among married people was significantly higher than single people (P=0.003). Also, a service history of more than three years causes more social acceptance.

Identifying the factors affecting the quality of life and social health of nurses will improve the quality of nursing services and the health of society, so it is recommended that professional nursing planners pay attention to this matter.

This study aimed to analyze the factors affecting the development of the quality of life of the elderly in North Khorasan Province emphasizing the role of participation in physical activities.

This study used a qualitative-quantitative research method. The statistical population in the qualitative section included a number of experts, such as sports officials of the province; professors of sports management, psychology, sociology, and geriatrics; as well as officials of welfare and health departments (n=25). In the quantitative section, the statistical population included a number of elderly referring to sports centers (n=247). A purposeful and convenience method was used for sampling. The required data were collected using interviews (in the qualitative section) and a researcher-made questionnaire (in the quantitative section). The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by 8 experts. Data analysis was conducted using descriptive and inferential statistics in SPSS (version 21) and LISREL (version 8.7) software.

Based on the results, the most important factors affecting the elderly participation in physical activities and development of their quality of life were management strategies, advertising and noticing, financial and economic, personal, socio-cultural, places, and facilities.

According to the findings of the study, managers should pay special attention to the factors affecting the participation of the elderly in sports activities and help improve their quality of life by providing suitable conditions for their participation in these activities.

Emotional and behavioral problems such as crime cause serious damage the adolescents and relatives’ normal process. Therefore, the present study was conducted to compare the life quality in the criminal and normal adolescent in the city of Lordegan.

The present study was conducted through quantitative method in causal-comparative type. The statistical population of the present study was the criminal adolescents (12-to-18-year-old age group) in the town of Lordegan in juvenile detention center in 2020. The research sample included 60 criminal and 60 non-criminal adolescents homogenous in age and gender who were selected through available method (total number of 120 adolescents). The applied questionnaire included life quality questionnaire (Weir and Sherbon, 1992) which were filled out individually by the members of the two groups.

According to the results, there is a significant difference (p<0.05) between life quality and its aspects including the role disorder due to emotional health, emotional wellbeing, social function and general health in the criminal and normal adolescents in a way that the criminal adolescents have higher role disorder and weaker emotional wellbeing, social function, and general health than the normal adolescents.

According to the low level of life quality in the emergence of adolescents’ crime, and taking the increasing inflation in recent years and the decrease of economic aspect of the adolescents’ life quality, it is better to hold interventions with the purpose of increasing the adolescents’ life quality at schools in order to avoid the emergence of crime.

Musculoskeletal disorders and low quality of life are the most common problems among paddy farmers in the world. Paddy farmers are exposed to inappropriate postures, long working hours and stressful environmental conditions. The aim of this study was to compare different farming methods of rice cultivation (traditional and semi-modern) on the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders and the life quality of paddy farmers.

This descriptive-analytical study was conducted in rice fields with 150 paddy farmers as a sample group (100 traditional paddy farmers and 50 semi-modern paddy farmers). Musculoskeletal disorders and quality of life were assessed using the Nordic questionnaire and the Lancashire Quality of Life Profile, respectively. All statistical analyses were performed using SPSS V25.

The prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders in the neck, lower back and shoulders is higher in traditional paddy farmers compared to farmers who work in semi-modern rice cultivation systems. Present results demonstrated that there was no significant difference between various rice cultivation methods and musculoskeletal disorders on life quality. Furthermore, different farming methods of paddy cultivation have no significant effect on paddy farmers' life quality.

Prevalence of lower back musculoskeletal disorders among paddy farmers is a result of long-term exposure to awkward posture. In addition, the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders and different methods of paddy cultivation has not affected the life quality of paddy farmers.

The phenomenon of child abuse covers a wide spectrum with different intensities in various societies. Child abuse is any interaction that results in actual harm and is largely under the control of the parent or a powerful or trusted guardian of the child. Child abuse and neglect are the most common and complex psychosocial issues in society. Adolescents who have been abused during childhood are at high risk for developing a wide range of psychiatric problems, including depression, anxiety, suicide, eating disorders, and substance abuse. Child abuse or mistreatment and abuse of children include any harm done including physical, sexual, emotional, or neglect done by an adult. Understanding the factors that put children at risk of being misconducted or abused is critical to developing interventional strategies. Since quality of life and job satisfaction are variables affecting the rate of child abuse, in this study, we investigated the role of quality of life and job satisfaction of parents in the incidence of child abuse.

This research is a correlational study. The study population included all children up to 18 years old living in Torbat–e Heydariyeh City, Iran, in 2017. They were 146 children affiliated with the Social Emergency Department of Torbat–e Heydariyeh and reported one type of child abuse. Seventy–three of them were chosen by cluster random sampling. Out of six health centers, three centers were randomly selected. Then from families with children under 18 years old in each center, 25 families were randomly selected. The inclusion criteria for both groups were that parents were not being treated for any mental disorder, medical services and medicines were not received by parents and children, and both parents were alive. The World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL–BRE) (1996) and Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ) (Weiss et al., 1967) were used to collect data. To analyze data, we used descriptive statistics (percentage, frequency, mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (logistic regression method) via SPSS software version 23 at a significance level of 0.05.

The fitting results of the model showed that among the components of quality of life, except for the environmental health component (p=0.398), the components of physical health (p=0.024), psychological health (p=0.008), and social health (p=0.003) had an effect on the likelihood of child abuse. Also, among the components of job satisfaction, except for the promotion component (p=0.029) and organizational climate (p=0.010), the components of the payment system (p=0.662) and job type (p=0.998), leadership style (p=0.886), and physical condition (p=0.689) had no effect on child abuse probability.

According to the results of the study in examining and explaining the roots of child abuse, the quality of life and job satisfaction of parents have a very important role. Attention to the factors that lead to the attitude of the individuals about the quality of life, along with the emerging attitudes about working conditions, determines how the individual behaves in the family structure, especially towards children.

Mistreated and orphan children are those whose parents (guardians) lack the necessary social, moral, and behavioral capability to take care of them for several reasons, such as addiction, physical or psychological harm and abuse. Parents and other people living with adolescents can define the quality of their life by providing proper supports. The psychological disorders that these children and adolescents experience usually decrease their quality of life and interpersonal relationships. It seems that by satisfying their basic psychological needs, people can achieve a proper level of emotional management, in other words, emotional intelligence, to achieve a desired quality and satisfaction in life. Emotional intelligence refers to a set of abilities and capabilities essential for human social life. This study aimed to explain the structural relationships between the basic psychological needs and the life quality based on the mediating role of emotional intelligence on mistreated and orphan adolescents.

This research is a descriptive correlational study and the statistical population consisted of 1639 orphan and mistreated adolescents living in the family–like centers in Tehran Province, Iran in 2019. Of whom, 258 people were selected by the available sampling method from 19 centers in Tehran, Parand, Rey, Shemiranat, Shahriar, and Mallard cities. The inclusion criteria were continuous residence in family–like centers, no chronic physical or mental illness, no medication for specific illnesses, and no psychotherapy for the last year. The study data were collected via the following tools: the Basic Needs Questionnaire (Sahebi, 2004), the Emotional Intelligence Scale (Schutte et al., 1998), and the World Health Organization Quality of Life Questionnaire (WHOQOL) (WHO, 1998). Descriptive statistics such as mean and standard deviation as well as structural equation modeling and the Pearson correlation coefficient were used to analyze the data in AMOS and SPSS softwares. The significance level was set at 0.05.

The results showed that basic psychological needs generally effect the quality of life (p=0.001, β=0.398). Basic psychological needs directly effects emotional intelligence (p=0.001, β=0.687). Emotional intelligence directly effects the quality of life (p=0.001, β=0.618). The basic psychological needs indirectly affects the quality of life mediated by emotional intelligence (p=0.001, β=0.425). Also, the hypothesized model fitted with the collected data (χ2=114.03, CFI=0.957, GFI=0.930, AGFI=0.893, and RMSEA=0.067).

According to the study findings, emotional intelligence directly mediates the relationship between basic needs and quality of life in orphan and mistreated adolescents.