Gyneocology
Mojtaba Aghili; Nazanin Gholami; Ensiyeh Babaee
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Background: Pregnancy is an important part of a woman's life that requires psychological adjustment. This research was conducted aiming to investigate the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy on pregnancy anxiety and physiological parameters of newborns.Materials and Methods: In this pre-test-post-test ...
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Background: Pregnancy is an important part of a woman's life that requires psychological adjustment. This research was conducted aiming to investigate the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy on pregnancy anxiety and physiological parameters of newborns.Materials and Methods: In this pre-test-post-test pilot study in which there was an experimental and a control group, single-blind method was used since the evaluation of research participants was based on self-reporting. The statistical population of the research consisted of primiparous women who presented to Bahar Hospital, Shahrood in 2022. Overall 60 women were included in the study via convenience sampling method. They were then randomly divided into experimental and control groups (n=30). The experimental group received eight one-hour therapy sessions based on acceptance and commitment, but the control group did not receive any intervention. Research tools were Vandenberg Pregnancy Anxiety Questionnaire (1989) and Measurement of physiological parameters of newborns. The research data was analyzed by using univariate covariance analysis in the SPSS version 24 software.Results: The findings showed that the treatment based on acceptance and commitment is effective on pregnancy anxiety and physiological parameters of newborns (p<0.05).Conclusion: The results indicate that treatment based on acceptance and commitment by reducing experiential avoidance and increasing acceptance leads to a decrease in anxiety during pregnancy and improvement of the physiological parameters of newborns.
Gholamheidar Teymori; Mohammad Javad Jafari; Hasan Asilian Mahabadi; Soheila Khodakarim
Volume 23, Issue 2 , March and April 2016, , Pages 360-369
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Background & Objectives: Hot working conditions are common in open-pit mines where workers are exposed to heat stress. Investigating the hot working environments may lead to preventing diseases caused by thermal stress in mines. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between WBGT ...
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Background & Objectives: Hot working conditions are common in open-pit mines where workers are exposed to heat stress. Investigating the hot working environments may lead to preventing diseases caused by thermal stress in mines. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between WBGT thermal stress index and physiological parameters in the iron ore miners. Methods: The present descriptive study was conducted on 120 healthy men in the summer season. Tympanic and skin temperatures were measured using a FT70 model thermometer manufactured by Beurer Co, Germany. Heart rate and blood pressure were measured using Emsig BO26 model (Taiwan) digital instrumentation. All environmental and physiological parameters were simultaneously measured and recorded. The WBGT index was calculated using the formula. Finally, the correlations were evaluated using linear regression and Pearson's correlation. Results: The statistically significant correlation between WBGT heat stress index and physiological parameters was found. The Pearson's correlations between WBGT index and tympanic temperature, skin temperature, heart rate, systolic and diastolic blood pressure were 0.592, 0.557, 0.624, 0.486 and 0.419, respectively. Conclusion: WBGT index showed a high correlation with physiological parameters, including tympanic temperature, skin temperature, heart rate, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, and had the highest correlation with heart rate. WBGT index has an acceptable correlation with physiological parameters of Workers in open pit mines and can be a suitable index to evaluate thermal stress in such working environments.
M PILEVARZADEH; S SALARI; N SHAFIEE
Volume 11, Issue 4 , January and February 2005, , Pages 27-33
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Purpose: Nurses often look for ways to help control pain and stress following surgery and diseases while massage therapy is considered a comprehensive procedure to help patients cope with their disease and lower their anxiety. This study was intended to investigate the effects of short - term myofascial ...
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Purpose: Nurses often look for ways to help control pain and stress following surgery and diseases while massage therapy is considered a comprehensive procedure to help patients cope with their disease and lower their anxiety. This study was intended to investigate the effects of short - term myofascial trigger massage therapy to head, neck and shoulder areas on physiological parameters and relaxation.
Methods and Material: In this experimental study, the subjects were originally homogenized as for their age and sex and then assigned randomly into control and experimental groups. 40 subjects (half male and half female) with mean age of 21.5±1.8 (for males) and 20±1.4 (for females) participated in the study. For five minutes, their pulse, systolic and diastolic blood pressure as well as their conception of muscular tension and psychological status before and after the intervention were recorded.
Results: After massage therapy of myofacial trigger points, considerable reduction in the heart rate (P