فصلنامه روانشناسی سلامت
پیاپی 33 (بهار 1399)

The purpose of the present research was to prediction the quality of life in patients with type 2 diabetes based on psychological well-being, health literacy and self-efficacy.

This study was a descriptive correlational study. The statistical population of this study consisted of all diabetic patients referring to diabetes clinic of Imam Sadegh Hospital in Delijan City in 1396. The research sample consisted of 150 patients with type 2 diabetes who were selected by random sampling method. The data for the research were collected through Quality of life Test (WHOQOL-BREF), Psychological well-being Test, Health Literacy for Iranian Adults & Diabetes Management Self-efficacy Scale. Pearson correlation and multiple regression analysis were used to analyze the data.

Data analysis showed that 59% of the quality of life of diabetic patients is predictable by psychological well-being (β = 0.59, p = 0.001), health literacy (β =0.42, p=0.001) and Self-efficacy (β=0.34, p= 0.001).

Health literacy, psychological well-being and self-efficacy in diabetes management play an important role in increasing the quality of life of patients with type 2 diabetes, and this finding has important implications for the education and promotion of mental health in diabetic patients.

Quality of life compared to health or illness has a special position for policymakers and health-care specialists. The goal of this study was to evaluate the expanded model of health-related quality of life in patients with coronary artery disease.

This is a descriptive correlational study that is based on structural equation modeling. The statistical population includes all patients with coronary artery disease who referred to Tehran and Karaj medical centers and received a diagnosis by a specialist. 650 persons were selected by available sampling method and responded to Illness Perception Questionnaire, Quality of Life Questionnaire, Self-Care of Heart Failure Index, Emotional Well-being Scale, Psychological Well-being Questionnaire of Reef, Social Well-being Questionnaire of Keyesand Seattle Angina Questionnaire.

The results of this study showed that the developed model of Wilson has a good fit. That is, by adding self-management and psychological, social, and emotional well-being, this model can be adopted to explain the quality of life. However, compared to the original model of well-being indices, due to the multidimensionality and the multiple relationships, it should be considered as a comprehensive well-being construct. Self-management can also explain comprehensive well-being.

Self-management and positive indicators of well-being can have a special role in the process of health-related quality of life in patients with coronary artery disease.

Leukemia is one of the most common cancers, with high prevalence and has many psychological and social consequences for the patient and various factors contribute to its formation and exacerbation. The purpose of this study was to investigate and compare the personality profile, tolerance for ambiguity and religious coping in patients with leukemia and healthy people.

The method of this study was casual-comparison. The statistical population included all patients with leukemia who were admitted to Valiasr, Shams, Shahriar and Shahid Ghazi hospitals in Tabriz. The sample consisted of two groups of 50 patients and their caregivers who were selected by available sampling method. In terms of age, sex and educational levels, they were matched together. Neo-PI (Mccrae and costa, 1985), tolerance for ambiguity (McLin, 1993) and religious coping (Pargament, 2000) scales were used to collect the data. Data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA).

The results of data analysis showed that there is a significant difference between personality profile, tolerance of ambiguity and religious coping among people with leukemia and healthy people.The results showed that patients with leukemia had higher scores than healthy people in neuroticism,lower tolerance for ambiguity, negativere ligious coping, and also healthy subjects in the variables of extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, conscientiousness, Positive religious coping scores and high tolerance for ambiguity were higher than those with leukemia (P<0/01).

According to the results of the present research, it can be concluded that some personality traits and adaptive and maladaptive religious copings can affect the symptoms of the disease and its effective coping and help clinicians to develop therapeutic interventions to helpt these patients more effectively

the aim of this study was to compare the efficacy of quality of life based therapy and emotion regulation therapy on biomarkers (HbA1C and blood glucose) in patients with type2 diabetes.

the present study was a quasi-experimental study with pretest-posttest design and follow-up with control group. The study population consisted of patients with type 2 diabetes referred to Iranian hospital in Dubai. 45 patients were selected by convenience sampling and randomly assigned to two experimental and one control group. Training groups were treated based on quality of life and emotion regulation. Glycated hemoglobin and fasting blood glucose were measured before, after, and 6 months after the intervention.

the results showed that treatment based on the quality of life and emotion regulation was effective on biomarkers in patients with type2 diabetes (). Comparison of the means of the two experimental groups showed that there was no significant difference between their effectiveness on HbA1C (P>0.05), but there was a significant difference between their effects on blood glucose levels at the posttest stage (P≤0.01).

the results of this study showed the effect of quality of life therapy and emotion regulation on controlling blood glucose and HbA1C in patients with type2 diabetes.

The health literacy for breast cancer patients plays an important role in accessing adequate diagnostic and therapeutic measures. The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of resilience in the relationship between health literacy and specific quality of life among patients with breast cancer.

In this cross-sectional study, 213 consecutive patients with breast cancer were selected based on the inclusive and exclusive criteria. Then, the pateints completed questionaires of Iranian version of health literacy, quality of life and resilience. Data were analysed using SPSS and LISREL software by path analysis model.

All components of health literacy and specific quality of life were significantly correlated with resilience. Also there was a significant association between health literacy and specific quality of life. The findings showed that as far as the health literacy is increased, the resilience scores significantly are also increased.

It seems that resilience plays the mediating role between health literacy and specific quality of life among pateints with breast cancer. Therefore, it is necessary to consider the relational model between these factors for developmemt of psychological protpcols and intagarating those protocols in therapeutic plans for bearst cancer pateints.

Physical illnesses such as cancer, in addition to negative consequences, can also have positive outcomes that are known as positive consequence of illness. The aim of this study was to compare hope and prosocial behavior intentions in different levels of positive consequences of cancer illness.

In this causal-comparative study, the population of the study consisted of cancer patients in hospitals in Rasht city (District 1) in 2019, of which 200 patients were selected by convenience sampling. For collecting data, Silver Lining Questionnaire (Sodergren & Hyland, 2000), Hope Scale (Snyder et al., 1991), and Prosocial Behavioral Intention Scale (Baumsteiger & Siegel, 2019) were used. Finally, the data were analyzed by multiple analysis of variance method.

The group of cancer patients with high level of positive consequences of illness got higher scores in hope and prosocial behavior intentions in comparison to group of cancer patients with low level of positive consequences of illness.

According to the findings, the group of cancer patients with high level of positive consequences of illness have higher hope and intentions for prosocial behaviors. Hence, providing interventions to increase the positive consequences of cancer can lead to increased hope and prosocial behavior intentions.

The purpose of this study was to investigate The effectiveness of mindfulness-based therapy on adherence of doctor's directions of diabetic patients.

The method of this research was a Quasi-experimental design with pretest-posttest design with control group. The population of the study included all diabetic patients, who were members of Diabetic Association in the city of Mashhad in 2018. Wich 30 of them were placed using purposive sampling method and were matching assigned to experimental group (n=15) and control group (n=15). Participants of the experimental group received 8-sessions of mindfulness-based therapy and the control group only used the common treatment. To collect the data adherence of doctor's directions questionnaires (Hayes & et al, 1994) were used. Data were analyzed using covariance method.

The results showed that adherence of doctor's directions of patients participating in the experimental group significantly increased compared to the control group (P<0/05).

Therefore, it can be concluded that mindfulness-based therapy increases the adherence of doctor's directions of diabetic patients.

Lupus is a disease that causes anxiety in a person with anxiety and tension in response to threatening conditions. This change in people's mood structure causes depression and changes in their quality of life. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment based therapy and compassion based therapy on depression, anxiety, quality of life in patients with systemic lupus.

This is a quasi-experimental study with pre-test, post-test with a control grou. The statistical population of this study included all patients with systemic lupus treated in Shiraz hospitals (N = 750), who were randomly divided into four groups. The control group was divided into 20 and 3 experimental groups. The instruments used in this study included Beck Depression Scale, Zong Anxiety Scale (SAS), and the World Health Organization Quality of Life.

The results of Covariance analysis showed that this treatment had a significant effect on systemic lupus at post-test and follow-up stage.

The results showed the effect of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Compassion Based Therapy (CFT) on depression, anxiety and quality of life of the subjects.It can be argued that a compassionate approach is appropriate for people with systemic lupus disease because it is consistent with their daily lives and behaviors during the day.

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between Islamic coping strategies and mental cohesion with adjustment to illness and pain tolerance in patients with breast cancer.

The method of this study was descriptive-correlational and the statistical population consisted of all female patients with breast cancer oncology and radiotherapy clinic in Mashhad in 1397, 100 of whom were purposively selected. The basis of inclusion criteria were selected. The instruments used in this study were the Islamic Coping Strategies Scale (Ehteshamzadeh (2009)), the Flensberg et al. (2006) Psychological Cohesion Questionnaire, the Watson Cancer Adjustment Scale (1988), and the McGill Pain Tolerance Questionnaire (2008).

Analysis of data from regression analysis and Pearson correlation showed that there is a significant positive relationship between Islamic coping strategies with disease adjustment and pain tolerance. And in their subscales, there is a significant relationship between behavioral and emotional dimensions with adjustment to illness and pain tolerance in a positive direction. And there is no significant relationship only in the cognitive dimension (0.01). There was also a significant relationship between feeling of psychological cohesion, coping with illness and pain tolerance in a positive direction.

In general, it can be concluded that Islamic coping strategies and feeling of psychological cohesion can predict a person's appropriate adaptation to illness and pain tolerance.

considering the current coronavirus disease pandemic, all experts and people know that the best way to prevent it is to stay at home. In this regard, staying at home requires a new lifestyle, and if people do not follow the principals of this new lifestyle, it may reduce their life quality. Dealing with this issue, this study is to develop, validity and validated lifestyle scale during coronavirus disease pandemic.

The present study was a descriptive-correlational study and a researcher-made questionnaire was administered to 350 (200 women & 150 Men) residents of Tehran through online recall. Data were analyzed using Cronbach's alpha and exploratory factor analysis using SPSS-24.

The results showed that based on reliability coefficient of the questionnaire and Cronbach's alpha, reliability of the whole scale (α = 0.77) and each of the factors healthy lifestyle (α = 0.73) and happy lifestyle (α = 0.81) were desirable. In addition, the results of exploratory factor analysis indicated the existence of two factors of healthy lifestyle and happy lifestyle, which explained of 34.6% of the total variance. The standard scores were calculated and the range of scores of the questionnaire factors and total score was divided into three domains: mild, moderate, and severe.

This study showed that the designed tool has the required adequacy and can be used in future research. This scale has acceptable reliability and validity to measure this construct in Iranian samples.