نشریه خانواده و بهداشت
سال دهم شماره 4 (پیاپی 26، زمستان 1399)

Divorce is one of the most disturbing factors in human life. This study aimed to determine the comparative effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and an integrated approach of schema therapy based on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) on reduction of divorce tendency in divorce-seeking couples.

For this purpose, during quasi-experimental research in form of pretest-posttest and control group, 90 couples who referred to the intervention crisis center of Mashhad in winter 2019 with convenience method were selected and were assigned randomly being divided into three groups of 30 subjects were assigned to the experimental and control group. Experimental groups were educated by 12 sessions of acceptance and commitment therapy protocol and 10 sessions integrated protocol of Schema therapy based Acceptance and commitment therapy, and the control group was not under any intervention. All three groups were requested to answer Divorce Tendency Scale, and Data were analyzed using covariance analysis and SPSS software.

The results showed that both treatments have been significantly effective in reducing the divorce tendency in divorce applicant couples (P <0.01) but schema therapy based on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) was significantly more effective in reducing divorce tendency (P <0.01).

Since the divorce rate is increasing in our country, this therapeutic integrated approach can help couples to the reduction of divorce tendency.

The family, as the first social unit, has different duties and functions and is the main place of education and socialization of human beings. This study aimed to develop a model of creativity based on perceptions of family parenting style and triple intelligence by individuality mediation in talented female students in Tehran.

the methodology of this research was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population of this study was all 15-17-year old talented girl students in Tehran in 2019. One sample out of this statistical population with 276 people was selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method, and the participants responded to Torrance's creative thinking test (1974), individualism questionnaire (2015), parenting styles questionnaire (1989), and Knox cubes (1971), and Cattell Intelligence Test (Form B) (1994).

Pearson correlation coefficient method and equations were used to analyze the data. Findings showed that creativity has a positive correlation with analytical intelligence (p = 0.001, r = 0.275) and academic intelligence (p = 0.034, r = 0.127). However, there was no significant relationship between individuality, parenting styles, and creativity (p = 0.387, r = 0.052). In addition, the results of structural equation modeling (SEM) showed that the direct path coefficient of academic intelligence (P = 0.015, β = 0.175) and experimental intelligence (P = 0.020, β = 0.158) with individualism, and analytical intelligence had positive and significant effect on creativity (P = 0.001, β = 0.194).

According to the results of this research, creativity is not just a secondary phenomenon to be the product of positive or negative life experiences or personal characteristics, etc., it should be considered by an interactive and comprehensive view

Due to the fact that mathematics for slow-moving students should be in line with the realities of society, applied computing skills can include concepts that the student deals with objectively and directly in society and his needs as a citizen considers. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a family-centered application curriculum on the computational skills of children with Down syndrome.

The present study was quasi-experimental (pre-test-post-test with control group). Thirty slow-moving elementary school students with Down syndrome studying in exceptional schools in Tehran were selected by convenience sampling method and randomly divided into experimental and control groups. The experimental group participated in 11 sessions of 45 minutes of Mohaghegh family-based application training package (1396) to improve computational skills. Both groups were evaluated in the pre-test-post-test stages using the KiMatt (1976) computational scale. Univariate analysis of covariance was used to analyze the data.

The results show that the family-centered application curriculum has led to an increase in the mean scores of computational skills of the participants in the experimental group compared to the control group (P <0.001).

The results of the present study showed that the family-centered applied curriculum is an effective way to improve the computational skills of slow-moving students with Down syndrome.

Today, many people have been attracted to virtual social networks and this influence and spread has made virtual social networks as a part of people's daily lives. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the skills of using virtual social networks on marital satisfaction.

The present study was a quasi-experimental study with a pretest and posttest design with a control group. The statistical population of the present study consisted of couples working in government offices in the 12th district of Tehran in the first quarter of 2016. Sampling method was available; thus, among the couples seeking divorce who referred to the Moftah Court of Tehran, 16 couples were randomly divided into two groups, including 8 couples in the experimental group and 8 couples in the control group. To collect pre-test and post-test data, the research tool included Enrich Marital Scale (1983). The experimental group received 8 sessions, each session 90-minute, of virtual social networking skills. Analysis of covariance was used for statistical analysis of data.

The results of the present study showed that training in the skills of using virtual social networks has been effective in increasing the level of marital satisfaction in the experimental group.

The skills of using virtual social networks, by increasing the self-awareness of each couple, cause awareness of personal needs, expectations and desires. This awareness, in turn, is expressed to the spouse through communication skills and leads to mutual understanding that this process increases marital satisfaction.

Marital relationship is the foundation of family relationships and educating future generations. Emotional divorce is one of the most important factors in the breakdown of marital relationships and family vulnerabilities. The present study aimed to determine the effectiveness of dialectical behavioral therapy approach on reducing emotional divorce in couples.

The method was quasi-experimental with pre-test-post-test design and follow-up with control group. The statistical population of this study included all couples applying for divorce who had referred to the family court of Bahonar branch of Tehran in 1397. Twenty-four couples (24 males, 24 females) were randomly purposive sampling selected and randomly assigned to the experimental group (12 ccouple) and the control group (12 couple). Subjects in the three stages of pre-test, post-test, and follow-up responded to the Gattman (1994) emotional divorce scale. The experimental group was trained in dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) for 10 sessions for 90- minute. However, the control group did not receive any intervention. The collected data were analyzed using variance mixed with repeated measures and LSD test.

The results showed that dialectical behavioral therapy is effective in reducing the emotional divorce of couples exposed to divorce (P<0.05).The results were also stable in the follow-up stage.

Dialectical behavioral therapy is an effective method in increasing the quality of marital relations and it can be used in preventing divorce and reducing emotional divorce of couples.

Deprivation of faculty members' rights, frustration, impossibility of growth and prosperity in all dimensions and ultimately decline in the quality of education in universities.

The present study was a multi-stage combined study that was conducted in two stages. In the first stage, during a qualitative study, 15 women faculty members of the Islamic Azad University of Hamadan were conducted in-depth semi-structured interviews and analyzed using the content analysis approach by Granheim and Landman method. Then, presenting the workload determination model, by stratified random method and Morgan table, 384 people were selected as the sample size. A questionnaire was used to collect data, the validity of which was confirmed by expert opinions and reliability by Cronbach's alpha. In order to analyze the data, qualitative content analysis and structural equations were used.

The results showed that the dimensions of the initial model of content analysis approach in 7 categories of education and teaching, research, specialized activities outside the university, dimensions of entrepreneurship, personal development, culture and executive and managerial activities were identified under each category and the model It has the main dimensions of education and teaching, research, specialized activities outside the university, personal development, entrepreneurship, culture and executive activities and has a good fit.

According to the findings, it can be said that the free universities of Hamadan province in the main categories of research, entrepreneurship, personal and cultural development have not yet been able to consider appropriate activities for women faculty members and most of the activities that professors pay attention to. The opinion of the universities is acceptable. It is related to education and teaching activities and executive activities.

The aim of this research was to study the effectiveness of cognitive behavior therapy based on religious believes on life satisfaction and mutual interest in the women with hypoactive sexual desire disorder.

The statistical population of the research included women who referred to the researcher counseling center and specialized women's clinics in Ahvaz due to lack of sexual desire. 30 couples were selected by available sampling method. They were completely matched in terms of age, socio-economic status, lack of acute physical and psychological diseases and other criteria considered in this study. The instruments included Diner Life Satisfaction Scale and Couples Love and Interest Scale. The data were analyzed by univariate analysis of covariance (ANCOA) and multivariate analysis (MANCOVA).

The results revealed that there was a significant difference between experimental and control group in life satisfaction and mutual interest (p<0.001). The rate of life satisfaction and mutual interest in experimental group significantly were higher than pretest and control group. These results significantly persisted after three months fallow up (p<0.001).

In general, the results showed that cognitive behavioral therapy based on religious believes have a positive effect on life satisfaction and mutual interest. These findings support the role of affective factors on the sexual performance of men and women and emphasis on considering these factors in the therapeutic protocols.

The statistics available in the last few years show that one of the reasons for couples to go to counseling centers is the failure to communicate, which ultimately leads to symptoms such as; Marital boredom manifests itself in psychological and emotional disabilities, so the purpose of this study was the effectiveness of combined behavioral couple therapy on sexual intimacy and marital boredom of couples with marital conflict.

The present study was used in terms of applied purpose and in terms of quasi-experimental method of pre-test-post-test with control group. The statistical population of this study was all maladapted couples who referred to Pooyesh counseling centers in Sanandaj in the first 6 months of 1398. The research sample consisted of 20 couples of these individuals who were first purposefully selected and randomly divided into two experimental groups (20 people) and control group (20 people). Were selected and to obtain information for research from two standard questionnaires; Sexual intimacy and marital boredom were used. They received and no intervention was performed for the control group and one-way and multivariate analysis of covariance were used in data analysis.

The results of this study showed that couple behavioral therapy combined therapy can significantly improve sexual intimacy and marital boredom (p <0.001).

Based on the findings, it can be concluded that couple therapy is a behavioral combination that can be considered as an effective intervention to improve sexual intimacy and marital boredom.

The birth weight of infants is an indicator indicated by health organizations. This study attempts to compare the biological characteristics of mothers of infants with low birth weight (LBW) with mothers of infants with normal weight.

This work was a comparative-causal study conducted on 325 infants and their mothers in Gorgan from 2018 to 2019. For this, a total of 171 infants with LBW and 154 infants with normal weight and their mothers were selected from the study population by random sampling. The research tool was a questionnaire on the biological, psychological, and social characteristics of parents (Afrooz, 2004). The Chi-square method and Phi coefficient were used to analyze the data in IBM SPSS Statistics V22.0.

The results of the chi‐square (χ 2) test showed a meaningful difference between the two groups, i.e., mothers of infants with LBW and mothers of infants with normal weight in terms of the history of abortion (P<0.001), bleeding during pregnancy (P<0.001), optimal mobility and rest (P<0.001) and nutritional status (P<0.001). However, no significant difference was observed between them in terms of the history of hypertension (P>0.001).

From the results, some biological characteristics of mothers exert a meaningful impact on LBW and can be given more attention in LBW prevention programs.