JOURNAL OF HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
Year:2011 | Volume:1 | Issue:3|Papers Count:9

The research purpose is to investigate the effectiveness of Quran's verses on the mental health of anxious and depressed women. Therefore, 60 women were randomly selected and assigned into control and experimental groups. The participants were required to fill in the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). The research data were assessed be measuring mean, standard deviation, t-test and One-Way Analysis of Variances (ANOVA). Results indicated that the general health significantly increased in the experimental group, compared to the control group and the psychopathological symptoms decreased due to the use of Quran's verses. Moreover, listening to Quoran verses decreased the anxiety symptoms, whereas, it had no significant effects on depression symptoms.

The purpose of this research is to study the competence psychosocial factors (orientation of life, quality of life and perceived social support in general) to predict the physical well-being of post-BMT in Leukeamic patients. This research is correlational study. Statistical population is all of patients with acute leukeamia who are conditor for BMT. The data were gathered with 58 patients (38 men and 20 women) aging 18-45 years during 13 months via census procedure. The physical well-being in the subjects were assessed after one, two and three months post-BMT. Data were analyzed by SPSS 16. Statistic data analysis was based on descriptive statistics, univariate, multivariate and regression analysis. Results showed that quality of life and perceived social support predicted physical well-being after BMT. However, orientation of life did not predict physical well-being after BMT. It was concluded that the attention to psychosocial factors prior to BMT and during recovery appeared critical for physical well-being.

A sample of 60 male diabetics aging 20-60 years were randomly selected from Karaj Diabetes Association. They were randomly divided into experimental and control groups (n=30). The experiment group were trained on anger control skills and stress management. The control group received an ineffective medicine as placebo. Before training, the participants’ FBS, the glucose level two hours after absorption (2hpp) and hemoglobin (HbAc) were controlled. After training the obtained data from the post and pre-tests in the subjects were compared by means of Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA). Results showed that the differences between the three studied variables were significant at the P-value<0.05.

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between sport and both male and female Kermani high school students’ mental health and happiness. This study was descriptive in nature. Besides, the studied sample was choosen amang 384 male and female students by clustering method in several steps. The data collection was conducted by using 28- item Mental Health Questionnaire (GHO) and happiness with a 29-item Oxford Happiness Questionnaire (1989). To determine the type and amount of sports activities a 15-item questionnaire made by the researchers were used. The data were analyzed by Spss 18 using descriptive statistics, bivariate and multivariate regression and t-test. The results showed a significant relationship between doing sports, mental health, and happiness at the P-value<0.01. Also, according to small values of mental health, there was a significant relationship between depression, anxiety and happiness (P<0.01), while there was no significant relationship between physical and social functions and happiness.

This research studied the effectiveness of training life skills on the quality of life on diabetes mellitus patients admitted in Fardis Health Care Center. This has been a quasi-experimental research. Thirty subjects aging 40 to 65 were randomly selected and assigned in two experimental group, who received life skills training, and control group who didn't receive any training. The preliminary data were collected by demographic and Short Form of quality of life questionnaire (pre-test). Life skills were trained to experimental group during eight 1.5 hours sessions once a week. The final data were collected by SF-36 questionnaire (post-test) and were analyzed using SPSS and condution ANOVA, ANCOVA and X2 Results showed that that life skills training had significant and positive effects upon the quality of life of diabetics as well as its sub-scales of Happiness, social function, Emotional Health and General Health in experimental group.

The purpose of this study was to compare the emotion regulation in smoking and non-smoking university students. The research method was casual-comparative and the statistical population were university students at Mohaghegh Ardabili in 1389-1390 (2010-2011) academic year. The statistical sample of the research included 80 smoking and 80 non-smoking students who took part in the study voluntarily, and answered Gross and John Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (2003). To analyze the data, t-test independent was used. The results indicated that non-smoking students had reappraisal (as a positive emotion regulation strategy) and smoking students had suppression (as a negative emotion regulation strategy). It was concluded that emotion regulation disorder was a risk factor in smoking university students.

The purpose of present study was to investigate the religious attitude, perceived stress and mental health in smoking and non-smoking university students. The study was a controled case study. The sample included 200 volunteer university students (n=100 in smoker and non-smoker groups). Then participants were assessed with the Baraheni Religious Attitude Inventory, Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) and General Health Questionnaire (GHQ). Data were analyzed using t-test. The results showed that there were significant differences between two groups regarding religious attitude, perceived stress and mental health. So that the mean of religious attitude and positive perceived stress in non-smoking students was significantly higher than smoking students while the mean of negative perceived stress and mental health in smoking students was significantly higher than non-smoking students. Also results showed that religious attitude in both groups had a posetive relationship with positive perceived stress and negative relationship with negative perceived stress and mental health. On the other hand, mental health had a negative relationship with positive perceived stress and a positive relationship with negative perceived stress. Results showed that increasing student religious attitude and training strategies for coping stress, we can prevent individuals from addiction.

The aim of this study was to investigate equality of life in women in different menopausal stages. This was a descriptive cross-sectional study wherein the sample was taken with multistage randomized sampling method and consisted of 276 healthy women aging from 40 to 60 years old. Data were collected with special questionnaire of QOLin menopause through interviews. Data were analyzed in SPSS using descriptive statistics and X2. Findings indicated that 72.3% of pre-menopause women and 49.3% of peri-menopause women had high QOL. The 87.1% menopause women with <5y, and 79.2% with >5y had the average QOL. The finding also showed that QOL was related to menopausal stage as well as the highest QOL was belonged to peri-menopause (p<0.001). According the findings, QOL was affected by the severity of symptoms. The results of research indicated that QOL in menopausal stage was different dependent on severity of symptoms (p<0.001).There was not any statistical significant relationship between quality of life and duration of menopause (p=0.441).Therefore raising women’s health and knowledge, and teaching health providers and adequate counseling about menopause were recommended.