Iranian Journal of Rehabilitation Research in Nursing
Year:2019 | Volume:5 | Issue:5|Papers Count:6

Introduction: Pregnancy especially the first pregnancy is a new and anxious situation that led to stress, depression and decrease quality of life. Therefore, present research aimed to determine the effect of cognitive rehabilitation group training on perceived stress, depression and quality of life among primigravid women with pregnancy anxiety. Methods: This study was a quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test design and with control group. Research population was primigravid women with pregnancy anxiety referring to health and care centers of Ahvaz city in the summer season of 2018 year. Totally 40 people were selected by available sampling method and randomly divided into two groups. The experimental group trained 10 sessions of 45 minutes by cognitive rehabilitation method and control group didn’ t receive any training. Data collected by the questionnaires of perceived stress, depression and quality of life and analyzed by multivariate analysis of covariance method. Results: The results showed that groups have a significant difference in terms of perceived stress, depression and quality of life. Means, cognitive rehabilitation group training led to decrease perceived stress and depression and increase quality of life among primigravid women with pregnancy anxiety (P<0. 001). Conclusions: The results indicated the effect and importance of cognitive rehabilitation group training on perceived stress, depression and quality of life among primigravid women with pregnancy anxiety. Therefore, psychologists and counselors can use from cognitive rehabilitation group training method for decrease perceived stress and depression and increase quality of life.

Introduction: In recently years the elderly population has great grown and aging is one of the sensitive periods in life which the health of individuals in that is reduced. Also, sport exercises have an important role in the prevention and management of diseases of this period. For this purpose, the aim of this study was determine the effect of Tai Chi Chuan exercises on happiness, sleep quality and blood pressure in elderly women. Methods: This research was a quasi-experimental from type of pre-test and post-test with control group. The research population was elderly women who members of the Education retirees association of Varamin county in 2018 year. The research sample was 60 people that selected by purposive sampling and assigned randomly to two experimental and control groups (each group 30 people). The experimental group trained Tai Chi Chuan exercises 24 sessions of 45 minutes (weekly three sessions) and the control group placed in the waiting list. The data collected by the questionnaires of happiness and sleep quality and blood pressure measured by scorpion barometer and analyzed by multivariate analysis of covariance method with the SPSS software version twenty one. Results: There was a significant difference between the experimental and control groups in terms of the happiness, sleep quality and blood pressure. In the other words, the Tai Chi Chuan exercises led to increase happiness (F=212. 94) and decrease undesirable sleep quality (F=93. 17) and systolic blood pressure (F=41. 25) of elderly women (P<0. 001). Conclusions: The results showed that the Tai Chi Chuan exercises led to increase happiness and decrease undesirable sleep quality and blood pressure of elderly women. Therefore, it is recommended that from the mentioned method as a one of the safe and affordable methods of complementary medicine used to improve the health of the elderly.

Introduction: The aim of this study was to assess The Effectiveness of Cognitive Rehabilitation, neurofeedback and combination of these two methods on Working Memory in children whit Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Methods: This pre-test and post-test quasi-experimental study was performed on 100 children with ADHD (6 to 12 years) referring to Tehran Psychiatric center in 2017 who were selected by convenience method and randomly assigned to four group of experimental and control (25 subjects in the experimental group based on Cognitive Rehabilitation, 25 in the experimental group based on neurofeedback, 25 in the experimental group based on combination of these two methods and 25 in the control group). Data were collected by using Kirchner working memory questionnaire (N-Back test). The neurofeedback sessions were conducted during 5 weeks, weekly two 40-minute sessions based on training paradigm sensory-motor rhythm by using the pro-camp device, cognitive rehabilitation in 14 sessions during two days a week and combined sessions were performed in 24 sessions of 40 minutes for neurofeedback and 30 minutes for cognitive rehabilitation in a weekly three sessions. The data was analyzed by Repeated Measures Analysis of Multiple Covariance (MANCOVA). Results: The results showed that the implementation of neurofeedback sessions, cognitive rehabilitation and combination of two methods have a significant effect on improving the work memory of students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, so in the experimental groups, the students had higher levels of working memory respectively in cognitive rehabilitation, combination of two methods and neurofeedback than control group. Conclusions: Therefore, it can be said that neurofeedback and cognitive rehabilitation can be considered as effective interventions to improve the working memory of children with (ADHD).

Introduction: On the one hand marital conflicts between couples are a common phenomenon which led to weakness the relationship and increase marital problems, and on the other hand couple therapy is one of the effective ways to reduce the marital problems. Therefore, present research aimed to comparison the effectiveness of couple therapy of emotional-focused and imago therapy on marital burnout and expectations in couples with marital conflicts. Methods: Present study was a quasi-experimental with a pre-test and post-test design with control and experimental groups. Research population was the couples with marital conflicts that referring to counseling centers of first region of three district of Karaj city in 2017 year. Totally 45 couple (90 people) were selected by available sampling method and randomly assigned to three equal groups (each group 15 couple). The intervention groups separately trained 10 sessions of 90 minutes (weekly two sessions) by the methods of couple therapy of emotional-focused and imago therapy and the control group was placed on the waiting list for training. Data were collected with the Peinas' marital burnout and Omidvar & et al' marital expectations and analyzed by the methods of multivariate analysis of covariance and bonferroni post hoc test. Results: The findings showed that both methods of couple therapy of emotional-focused and imago therapy led to significant reduced the marital burnout and inappropriate expectations in couples with marital conflicts. Also, the couple therapy of emotional-focused method in compared with the couple therapy of imago therapy method led to significant reduced the marital burnout and inappropriate expectations in couples with marital conflicts (P<0. 05). Conclusions: Regarded to results, it is suggested that to reduce the marital burnout and inappropriate expectations in couples with marital conflicts used from both methods especially the couple therapy of emotional-focused method.

Introduction: Few researchs conducted about the effect of exercise training on body composition of mental retardation male, So the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of eight weeks’ selected football trainings on body composition of male with intellectual disability. Methods: In this semi-experimental study, 16 volunteer male of talash intellectual disability institute of shiraz city were randomly selected and divided in two groups of eight people including experimental (age 25. 3± 7. 44; height 164. 3± 5. 11 and weight 68. 09± 5. 17) and control groups (age 29. 4± 3. 12; height 164. 2± 7. 06 and weight 67. 5± 4. 75). The experimental group performed football trainings for eight weeks, three sessions per week and 90 minutes per session and control group performed only their daily activities. Body composition of the subjects was measured in pre-test and at the end of eight weeks. For analysis of research findings used Kolmogorov-Smirnov, independent and dependent t-tests (P≤ 0. 05). Results: The results showed that eight weeks’ football trainings had no significant effect on total body fluid (P=0. 69), protein mass (P=0. 57), mineral mass (P=0. 46), lean body mass (P=0. 43) and fat mass (P=0. 65) of male with intellectual disability. Conclusions: According to the results of present study it seems that eight weeks selected football trainings have no significant effect on improvement of body composition of male with intellectual disability.

Introduction: Anxiety and depression are among the variables that children with cancer need psychological treatment for them. The aim of this study was to determine the comparing the effectiveness of group story therapy and the art-play therapy on anxiety and depression in children with cancer based on the framework, principles and rules of cognitive-behavioral approach. Methods: The research method was semi-experimental, and research design was three groups with three stages (pre-test, post-test and follow up design). In order to carry out the research, from 8-12 years old children with cancer in Amir Hospital, in Shiraz city in the Summer of 2018, 36 children were purposefully selected and randomly assigned to three groups (two experimental and one control group, each group was 12 children). Children Anxiety Scale (SCAS-Spence, 1998) and Children Depression Scale (CDS-Tisher & Lang, 1978) was used to measure the dependent variable in the pretest, post-test and follow up. The group of cognitive-behavioral story therapy and cognitive-behavioral art-play therapy received 12 sessions of treatment. The data were analyzed with the use of repeated measures analysis of variance. Results: The results showed that there is a significant difference between cognitive-behavioral story therapy and cognitive-behavioral art-play therapy with control group in anxiety (F=29. 98, P<0. 001) and depression (F=28. 62, P<0. 001). Also, cognitive-behavioral art-play therapy had stronger effects than cognitive-behavioral story therapy in reducing anxiety and depression (P<0. 001). Conclusions: Based on the results of this study, it can be said that cognitive-behavioral story therapy and cognitive-behavioral art-play therapy can be used as a treatment to reduce the anxiety and depression of children with cancer in educational and therapeutic settings.