فصلنامه آرشیو توانبخشی
سال یازدهم شماره 1 (پیاپی 35، بهار 1389)

Obgective: The purpose of present study was to investigate the relationship of religiosity and personality dimensions with satisfaction of rehabilitation practitioner students about their clinical experiences as a therapist.

In this descriptive study, three hundreds eighteen rehabilitation practitioner students including onehundred forty physical therapy students, ninty seven occupational therapy students, and eighty one speech therapy students were selected by randomized and stratified sampling method. Data were collected through Islamic religiosity scale, NEO inventory and job satisfaction questionnaire, and analyzed by statistical methods such as: Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis.

The finding showed that satisfaction from clinical experiences was positively and significantly correlated with religiosity, religious pretentiousness, and three dimensions of personality include extraversion, agreeable and consciousness, and was negatively and significantly correlated with neuroticism and religious disorganization in all of rehabilitation students. (P<0.0001). Results of multiple regression analysis showed that in physical therapy, religiosity and extraversion and agreeable, in occupational therapy students, extraversion, consciousness and gratification and in speech therapy students, religiosity and religious disorganization have more power to predict of satisfaction with clinical experiences.

With regarding to results, can concluded that religiosity is important factor to predict of satisfaction from clinical experiences in physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy practitioner students.

With increased recognition of the importance of conscious process and cognition activities in the stability and regulation of posture and also in line of probable adaptation in central nervous system in patients with functional ankle instability, this study was aimed to assess interference patterns between short–term memory task and postural stability tasks in functional ankle instability patients in comparison with healthy individuals.

In this cross–sectional and case–control study, with dual–task paradigm fifteen functional ankle instability patients whom were selected simply and conveniently and fifteen healthy persons whom were matched with patients as control group were assessed and compared. Six steps of tests were performed for every case with two situation of balance Biodex system instability and three situation of auditory short–term memory task. Data were analyzed by repeated measurement ANOVA.

Finding showed that there was significant interference between postural task and cognitive task in both groups (P<0.05), but there was no significant difference between interferences of two groups.

Present study, certificated disruption in information processing in a peripheral musculoskeletal injury such as functional ankle instability. Application of training programs in order to facilitate central information processing in balance rehabilitation process of this patients and improved dual–task paradigms with different degrees of cognitive and postural tasks seems to be effective.

This study was aimed to determine a long-term effect of the Bobath approach (6 years) using modern tools on a child with hemiplegia.

This research is a single case study design and performed on a spastic hemiplegic child. Bobath general assessment was used for evaluating of the quality of the gross motor function and Gross Motor Function Measure tool – 66 was used for quantitative evaluation of the gross motor function. Therapeutic interventions, based on Bobath approach were done for 6 years, in every age level commensurate with their child age once a week.

After therapeutic intervention, based on Gross Motor Function Classification System, the child developed from level II to I. At the entrance to the occupational therapy session, based on general assessment, the major problems included hypertonia, muscle stiffness, lack of doing various movements and disassociation movement patterns abnormal in trunk, upper and lower extremities, and hyper lordosis and scoliosis in her left side. Also she could assume sitting, rolling from left to right and creeping. In the sixth year, she acquired walking, jumping, fast running in out door, hopping and stepping up and down alternatively. In assessing with GMFM- 66, at the beginning of intervention the score was 46/09 and the end of sixth year was 79/99.

Bobath treatment programs that planned based on the précis assessment, can prevent of abnormal patterns of movement and as much as possible client abilities to be close to base of natural development.

Since Spielberger's State–Trait Anger Expression Inventory–2 (STAXI–2) has enormous potential for research and therapy, the current study aimed to investigate psychometric properties and normalization of STAXI–2 among Iranian college students.

Descriptive–survey research method, developing an instrument one, was used. 1140 students (Mean age=21.92, SD=2.89) were drawn from Tehran University via cluster sampling method. 554 (48.6%) and 586 (51.4%) participants were females and males respectively. Among participants 1080 were singles. The participants were asked to complete two instruments. One of these instruments STAXI–2 and other was one of Multi–dimensional Anger Inventory, Over controlled Hostility Scale, Oxford Happiness inventory, Emotional and NEO– Five Factor Inventory.

There were not observed significant differences between females and males participants in most sub–scales of STAXI–2. Also data analysis demonstrated that STAXI–2 and its subscales had significant relationship with parallel instruments. Moreover, the results showed significant mean differences between two groups including high and low emotion intelligence groups and all subscales of STAXI–2. Factor analysis also extracted as many as factors in any part of STAXI–2 in comparison with original version. Based on T scores, separate norms tables were reported.

STAXI–2 has an appropriate validity and reliability to measure anger in Iranian young population. Therefore, STAXI–2 as a state and trait assessment device can be used in clinical sets and research.