Psychology
javad taghavi khiabani; FATEME SHAHAMAT DEHSORKH; ATA TEHRANCHI
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Background: The present study was conducted with the aim of comparing the effectiveness of mindfulness-based therapy and schema therapy on distress tolerance in students with a history of suicide attempts.Materials and Methods: The research method was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design ...
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Background: The present study was conducted with the aim of comparing the effectiveness of mindfulness-based therapy and schema therapy on distress tolerance in students with a history of suicide attempts.Materials and Methods: The research method was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design with two experimental groups and one control group and the statistical population included students had a history of suicide attempts in 1400.With the available sampling method, 45 people were randomly selected and placed in the control group and experimental groups, and all three groups completed the Simmons and Gaher (2005) distress tolerance scale. Then, one of the test groups was exposed to schema therapy and the second test group was subjected to cognitive therapy based on mindfulness. in the end the experimental groups, completed the distress tolerance scale. after one month of the post-test, the follow-up stage was conducted and finally the obtained data were analyzed SPSS.21 software and descriptive statistics indicators and variance analysis of multivariate repeated measures.Results: The results indicated the effectiveness of two interventions on distress tolerance; according to the values of the average score difference in stages of measurement in the groups, the treatment based on mindfulness compared to schema therapy, for the component of regulating efforts to relieve distress and for the other three components, schema therapy is more effective in students with a history of action has committed suicide.Conclusion: The combined use of both treatment methods is suggested to adolescent therapists in increasing the distress tolerance of students with a history of committing suicide.
Psychology
Hossein Alamdarian; Mohammad Ismail Ebrahimi; Arya Haddadi; Amirhosein Ghasemy
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Introduction: Multiple sclerosis is a debilitating disease that affects patients with a variety of problems, including reduced function, reduced life expectancy, and emotional and economic problems. For this purpose, the present study was conducted with the aim of predicting suicidal ideation based on ...
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Introduction: Multiple sclerosis is a debilitating disease that affects patients with a variety of problems, including reduced function, reduced life expectancy, and emotional and economic problems. For this purpose, the present study was conducted with the aim of predicting suicidal ideation based on self-compassion in married women with MS in Hamadan.Materials and Methods: The present study was a descriptive correlational study and its statistical population was 153 women with MS in Hamadan who were selected by convenience sampling method and 110 people were selected and studied based on Krejcie and Morgan sampling table. Suicidal tendencies, self-compassion, and psychological resilience were assessed by Beck's Suicide Tendency (1979), Nef's Self-compassion (2003), and Bond & etal (2011) Psychological Flexibility Questionnaires. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient test using SPSS software version 25.Results: The value of r was -0.385 in the confidence level was more than 0.95 and this means that with increasing self-compassion of women, their suicidal tendency decreases.Conclusion: Self-compassion and psychological flexibility had a negative effect on the tendency of women with MS to commit suicide, so developing appropriate psychological programs to increase psychological flexibility centered on self-compassion for these patients can be useful.
Seyyd Mansour Kashfi; Maryam Yazdankhah; Al Khani Jeihooni; Mohammad Javad Motamedi; Akbar Babaei Heydarabadi; Marjan Vejdani
Volume 23, Issue 4 , September and October 2016, , Pages 634-643
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Background Suicide is one of the important health problems. In Iran, like most countries in the world, suicide has considerably increased in recent decades and its reduction is one of the key goals of the health system. This study aimed to identify the risk factors for suicide to provide appropriate ...
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Background Suicide is one of the important health problems. In Iran, like most countries in the world, suicide has considerably increased in recent decades and its reduction is one of the key goals of the health system. This study aimed to identify the risk factors for suicide to provide appropriate strategies and planning of practitioners for better prevention and treatment of people at risk.Methods & Materials This is a desriptive correlational study. The study population comprised all suicide attempts in 2011. To this end, 545 records were examined in proportional stratified manner. The device of collecting data was a checklist, including age, sex, history of suicide attempt,etc. The collected data were analyzed by descriptive tests using SPSS19.Results Based on the results, 36.7% of the subjects who attempted sucide were men and 63.3% were women. The majority of suicide attempters were single (53.9%), aged 14-24 years (54.9%) and were city residents (90.1%). Suicide rates were highest in winter (30.6%). Among suicide attempters, 74.3% had used drugs. The most common reasons of attempting for suicide among married persons were marital problems.Conclusion According to the findings, promotion of healthy marriage, premarital consultation, social and mental support with regard to social problems, promotion of correct urbanization culture, correct use of medication, expansion of hope and recreation among people, especially the young could be helpful and instrumental in prevention of Suicide.
Zahra Nava Noorafshar; Mohsen Kooshan
Volume 22, Issue 3 , May and June 2015, , Pages 220-224
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Introduction: Suicide is one of the social and health problems. Epidemiological studies of suicide can provide the basis for effective preventive actions. The present study has conducted with the aim of epidemiological investigation of people who commit suicide among people who refer to Sabzevar hospitals ...
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Introduction: Suicide is one of the social and health problems. Epidemiological studies of suicide can provide the basis for effective preventive actions. The present study has conducted with the aim of epidemiological investigation of people who commit suicide among people who refer to Sabzevar hospitals in 2010.
Material and Methods: This study has been a cross-sectional study. Documents of patients have been used for gathering required data. Descriptive statistics were used for data analysis.
Findings: In this study, the prevalence of attempted suicide, has been calculated 1 per thousand. During a year, 471 cases of attempted suicide was recorded in the city of Sabzevar. 305 cases were in the age group of 15 to 24 years old which have been formed the highest prevalence of cases. In this study, women were 288 cases that make 61% of cases. Singles were 289 that make 61/4 % of cases. Most cases of committing suicide have been among housewives with 125 cases that include 26/5 % of cases
Conclusion: The prevalence of committing suicide in the Sabzevar city was calculated 1 per thousand. According to the suicide recording system of health ministry, Sabzevar with regard to committing suicide prevalence, is one of the cities with moderate risk.
Adeleh Hashemi fard; Seyed Ehsan Saffari; Akram Ghasemi Hosseinabadi; Hamidreza Hashemifard; Majid Hashemifard
Volume 22, Issue 1 , March and April 2015, , Pages 84-92
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Background: Suicide is a huge problem in today's society. Due to the prevalence of this phenomenon especially amongyouth, this study was aimed atinvestigatingthe possible factors affecting on suicide attempts in patients of health centers of Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences.
Material and Methods: ...
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Background: Suicide is a huge problem in today's society. Due to the prevalence of this phenomenon especially amongyouth, this study was aimed atinvestigatingthe possible factors affecting on suicide attempts in patients of health centers of Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences.
Material and Methods: The present study was a descriptive-analytical and cross-sectional study. All patients who have madesuicide attemptsand referred to Vasei Hospital of Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences in 2013 were subjected as study population, and finally 242 cases among all registered cases in the Medical Records Unit of the hospital were entered to this study using the simple random sampling. SPSS 16 was used as well as the descriptive statistics and Chi-square test to analyze the data with %5 significance level.
Results: The suicide attempt cases in this study have the mean age of 25.77±9, with %45.6 of singles and %86.78 of urban. The most prevalent method in suicide attemptswas found to betheuse ofmedicine (%56.68) and the most important reason leading tosuicide attemptswas found to be the family problems (%38.02). Furthermore, the relationship between result, method, reason and the number of suicide attempts,varieswith demographic variables,obtained about%5 of significance level.
Conclusions: The results showed that lots of factors such as gender, age, marriage status, history of Psychosis, history of physical illness and history of suicide attemptsplay important roles in suicide attempt as a leading cuase of dead.