فصلنامه روانشناسی سلامت
پیاپی 44 (زمستان 1401)

Considering the chronicity and long duration of multiple sclerosis and the importance of self-criticism and fatigue in these patients, the need to pay attention to the use of cognitive behavioral therapy and its third generation in these patients has been neglected. The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of cognitive and behavioral training based on fatigue and cognitive self-compassion on the dimensions of fatigue and self-criticism in patients with multiple sclerosis.

The present study was a quasi-experimental study with a post-test and follow-up design (2 months). Subjects with an age range of 20-40 years and with a scale of physical disability (EDSS) one to 5.5 and targeted sampling and voluntarily selected and randomly divided into experimental groups and evidence of division Were. Both groups answered the fatigue Impact scale (1994), Thompson & Zuroff (2004) in the pre-test-post-test and 2-month follow-up. The collected data were analyzed using mixed analysis of covariance with repeated measures.

The results of analysis of covariance mixed with repeated measures showed that cognitive and behavioral training based on fatigue and cognitive self-compassion are effective on the dimensions of fatigue and self-criticism in patients with multiple sclerosis. Also, the effects of the intervention were maintained after 2 months of follow-up on the reduction of fatigue and self-critical scores.

Based on the results of this study, cognitive-behavioral training based on fatigue and cognitive self-compassion can be used along with drug interventions to reduce fatigue and self-criticism of multiple sclerosis patients in medical centers.

in recent decades, new perceptions of beauty have been defined and beauty is defined as attractiveness and perfection. The aim of this study was to determine the fit of the structural model of the relationship between the tendency to cosmetic surgery with a negative body image and irrational beliefs mediated by cognitive emotion regulation in women applying for cosmetic surgery in Bushehr.

The present study was correlational and structural equation model study. The statistical population of this study is all women applicants for surgery who referred to beauty clinics in Bushehr in 2020. The sample size consists of 400 women who were selected by available random sampling method. Data collection tools were, tendency to cosmetic surgery (Etemadifar & Amani, 2013), Body image (Littleton, 2005), irrational beliefs (jones, 1969) and cognitive emotion regulation (Garnefski, 2001) questionnaires.

The results showed that negative body image and irrational beliefs predicted the tendency to cosmetic surgery in women by mediating role of cognitive emotion regulation. Also, data analysis showed the appropriateness of the indicators and indicated a good and acceptable fitness for the hypothesized model. The findings of the structural model showed that the path of negative body image and irrational beliefs with cognitive emotion regulation is significant directly and with a tendency to cosmetic surgery mediated by cognitive emotion regulation.

The results of this study can introduce a protocol for psychotherapists and counselors in providing specialized counseling to women seeking cosmetic surgery to correct irrational beliefs and cognitions and teach coping styles to reduce negative body image and irrational beliefs and increase cognitive emotion regulation.

Given the considerable increase in the prevalence of obesity/overweight in Iran especially in school age children, it is important to identify the causes of childhood obesity. The aim of this study is to develop a model of childhood obesity based on maternal body mass index and parenting stress mediated by maternal feeding styles.

The statistical sample consisted of 460 students aged 7 to 11 from schools of Tehran with their mothers. Subjects were selected using cluster sampling method. After measuring the body mass index of children and their mothers, Parenting Stress Index- Short Form and Parental Feeding Style Questionnaire were completed by mothers. Data were analyzed by Amos software with using Structural Equation Method.

The model generally had a good fit. Based on the results of path analysis of maternal body mass index, parenting stress, emotional feeding, instrumental feeding, prompting/encouragement to eat, and controlling feeding directly predict the child's body mass index. The results showed that maternal body mass index and parenting stress also indirectly predict the child's body mass index through all of the maternal feeding styles subscales such as Emotional, Instrumental, Control and Encouragement feeding style.

The findings of this study showed that these relationships can predict childhood obesity as a model,  and can lead to useful insights into interventions in the first level of prevention.

The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy on mood swings, sleep quality and sexual function in postmenopausal women.

The research method was quasi-experimental type with pre-test and post-test design with experimental and control group. The statistical population of this study was all postmenopausal women referring to health centers in 7 District  of Tehran in the first quarter of 1397. From this community, 30 people were selected and assigned to two experimental and control groups. Thirty women were selected from the statistical population based on the available sampling method, the experimental group was 15 and the control group was 15. The data was collected using a questionnaire by Watson et al. (1988), The woman’s Sexual Function index of Rosen et al (2000). And Pittsburgh sleep Quality index (1989). Then, multivariate analysis of covariance (statistical) Method was used to analyze the data.

The findings showed that acceptance and commitment therapy can improve sexual function, reduce negative mood and sleep Quality in postmenopausal women.

This treatment in contrast to cognitive therapy targets avoidance for their therapies in order to experience rather than control or change the negative assessments and creates a major opening. Therefore, Acceptance and commitment therapy can be used for improving sexual function, improving people's mood and increasing sleep Quality in postmenopausal women.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the Relationship between cyberspace Addiction and eating problems whit The Moderating Role of Self-Compassion in secondary school students.

The method of this research is correlational. The statistical population of this study is the eleventh and twelfth grade female students of Nowshahr city, from which 148 people were selected using the Krejcie and Morgan table by cluster sampling and They completed Kagan and Squires Compulsive Eating Scale, Addiction to Mobile-Based Social Networks questionnaire and Raes et al. Self-Compassion Scale Short Form.

Descriptive indices such as mean and standard deviation were used for path analysis. Statistical results have shown that the indirect effect of eating problems due to cyberspace addiction is significant, also the indirect effect of eating problems due to positive and negative self-compassion is significant.

The results showed that self-compassion has a moderating role in the relationship between cyberspace addiction and eating problems.

Gestational diabetes is a growing health problem worldwide and one of the most common complications of pregnancy. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of metacognitive therapy on thought control strategies and reducing anxiety in women with gestational diabetes.

The method of the present study was a quasi-experimental intervention with pre-test and post-test with the control group. The statistical population of this study was all pregnant women with gestational diabetes who referred to comprehensive health care centers in Kashan with an age range of 18 to 45 years. The number of samples in the present study was 30 (15 people in each group) by purposive sampling method (women with gestational diabetes in the first 16 weeks of pregnancy). The Wells Metacognitive Therapy Program was used for the intervention, the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) and the Thought Control Questionnaire (TCQ) were used to measure the dependent variables, and the multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) was used to analyze the data.

The results showed that metacognitive therapy was significant on reducing anxiety (p<0.05) and controlling thought and its dimensions in women with gestational diabetes (p<0.05).

according to the results, for practical and easy access to metacognitive treatment programs for women with gestational diabetes, by implementing metacognitive therapy classes in health centers, their thought control strategies can be improved and their anxiety can be reduced.

In the context of the widespread prevalence of coronavirus, self-care behaviors play an important role in individual and public health, so it is important to identify its antecedents. Therefore, the present study aimed to evaluate the role of self-compassion, emotion regulation, and corona anxiety in predicting self-care behaviors of family members with Covid-19.

In the present cross-sectional study, a correlation design was used. The study population was family members of patients with Covid-19, and 235 people were selected by convenient methods. A self-report of 10 questions of self-care behaviors, Corona anxiety scale, emotion regulation scale, and self-compassion scale was used to collect data. Data analysis was performed using Pearson correlation and stepwise regression tests.

The results showed that there is a positive and significant correlation between self-kindness (the first component of self-compassion) and psychological symptoms of corona anxiety with self-care behaviors, and there is a significant negative relationship between suppression emotion regulation strategy and self-care behaviors. But the two components of self-compassion, including common humanity, mindfulness, reappraisal emotion regulation strategy, and physical symptoms of corona anxiety don't have significantly associated with self-care behaviors. Also, self-kindness, psychological symptoms of corona anxiety, and emotion suppression strategy were predicting corona self-care behaviors.

Therefore, in explaining the corona-virus-related self-care behaviors, paying attention to self-kindness, the psychological symptoms of coronary anxiety, and the emotion suppression strategy will help.

The occurrence of  particular  diseases, such  as cancer in children, causes severe damage to  the mental health of  mothers. This research aimed to investigate the effectiveness of compassion-focused  therapy on self-care and compassion  fatigue in mothers  of  children  with  cancer.

The research method was quasi-experimental with a pretest,  post-test, control group, and  45-day follow-up design. The sample size in the study was 25 mothers  of  children  with  cancer  who were selected from those referred to Omid Educational Therapeutic Center in Isfahan 2018  through a convenient sampling method and were randomly replaced into experimental and control groups (12 mothers  in  the  experimental and 13 mothers in the control group). The experimental group received eight ninety-minute compassion-therapy  intervention   sessions  over 75 days  once a week, while the control group didn't  receive any intervention during the study. The instruments research included a self-care questionnaire (Galina et al., 2015)  and  a   professional  life  quality questionnaire (Stam, 2005).

The results of ANCOVA showed that compassion-focused therapy influenced self-care and compassion  fatigue  in  the mothers of children with cancer in post-test and follow-up significantly (p<0.001).

Based on the present research findings, compassion-focused therapy is suggested to be an effective method to improve self-care and reduce compassion  fatigue  in  mothers of  children with cancer

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of behavioral activation therapy on cognitive flexibility and depression in patients with a history of Cardiac surgery.

The quasi-experimental study was a pretest-posttest or control group. The statistical population included all Cardiac patients operated on in Tabriz heart hospitals. Based on this, about 60 people in two groups of 30 people including the experimental group (N=30) and the control group (N=30) were selected by Convenience Sampling. Beck, Steer and Brown (1996) standard depression questionnaires and Dennis and Wonder Wall (2010) cognitive flexibility questionnaire were used to collect data. Multivariate covariance was used to analyze the data.

The results of multivariate analysis of covariance of behavioral activation therapy on depression (P>0.05) and cognitive flexibility (P>0.01) and its components including alternatives (P>0.05), control (P>0.01), alternatives to human behaviors (P>0.05), are effective. Therefore, the use of behavioral activation therapy has a significant effect on depression and cognitive flexibility and its components, including alternatives, controls and alternatives to human behaviors in the experimental group.

Behavioral activation treatment reduces depression and increases cognitive flexibility and its components, including alternatives, controls and alternatives to its human behaviors in patients undergoing Cardiac surgery.

Living with diabetes limitations is associated with special psychological distress. Therefore, the study aimed to determine the effectiveness of stress management method based on cognitive behavioral approach and self-care training and the combination of both on quality of life in people with type 2 diabetes.

The present study is a randomized four-group double-blind clinical trial with mixed between-and within-subjects design. The research sample included 60 people with type 2 diabetes selected purposefully among the members of the Kerman Diabetes Association by considering the inclusion and exclusion criteria for the study. The participants, after matching in terms of age and gender, were randomly replaced in 4 groups of 15 people and the experimental groups received the relevant interventions in 8 sessions and the control group did not receive any intervention. Pre-test, post-test and 2-month follow-up of the members of all 4 groups were performed by 36-item quality of life questionnaire.

According to the results of the SPANOVA analysis, the mean scores of quality of life (physical and mental health) in the post-test and follow-up phases were increased compared to the pre-test phase and the occurred increase remained stable until the follow-up phase.

although medical training and self-care and psychological interventions are solely necessary and useful for people with diabetes, the combination of medical and psychological interventions are necessary to improve the quality of life and stability of the obtained results.