Nursing
zohre mohamadzade tabrizi; aliasghar jesmi; fatemeh borzoee; Narjes Heshmatifar; elham navipour; arezoo davarinia
Volume 29, Issue 5 , November and December 2022, , Pages 616-626
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Introduction: In relation to mental health, self-efficacy indicates that a person with high Self-efficacy has the ability to change their negative mental states, in other words, strong self-efficacy beliefs bring peace and can be an appropriate predictor for mental health. Therefore, the current research ...
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Introduction: In relation to mental health, self-efficacy indicates that a person with high Self-efficacy has the ability to change their negative mental states, in other words, strong self-efficacy beliefs bring peace and can be an appropriate predictor for mental health. Therefore, the current research was conducted to investigate the effect of virtual training of relaxation methods on self-efficacy and mental health of medical students of Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences during the outbreak of the Covid 19.Materials and Methods: The present study is an intervention type that was conducted by random method based on double replacement blocks in 2019 on 26 samples (14 in the intervention and 12 in the control group) from undergraduate students of anesthesiology and operating room. The criteria for entering the study included not suffering from mental disorders and taking psychoactive drugs, as well as willingness to participate in the study. Checklist of demographic characteristics and standard questionnaires of mental health and self-efficacy were completed in both groups before and after the intervention.Results: The results of the study showed that there was no statistically significant difference between self-efficacy (P-Value >0/05) and mental health (P-Value >0/05) of students in both groups before and after the intervention.Conclusion: The findings of the present study showed that Benson's relaxation technique had no effect on students' self-efficacy and mental health, so other relaxation methods can be used.
Mohammadreza Rajabi; Mehrdad Roghani; Zeynab Adab
Volume 21, Issue 6 , January and February 2015, , Pages 1123-1133
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Background and Aim: Diabetes mellitus is accompanied with higher incidence of cardiovascular disorders. Due to antioxidant activity of the flavonoid myricetin, this study was conducted to evaluate its effect on contractile and relaxation response of thoracic aorta in diabetic rats and to determine the ...
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Background and Aim: Diabetes mellitus is accompanied with higher incidence of cardiovascular disorders. Due to antioxidant activity of the flavonoid myricetin, this study was conducted to evaluate its effect on contractile and relaxation response of thoracic aorta in diabetic rats and to determine the role of oxidative stress.
Materials and Methods: In this experimental study, male Wistar rats were divided into 4 groups, i.e. control, myricetin-treated control (1 mg/kg), diabetic, and myricetin-treated diabetic groups (1 mg/kg). Myricetin was daily administered (i.p.) ten days after streptozotocin injection for 3 weeks. At the end of study, contractile reactivity of thoracic aortic rings to KCl and phenylephrine and relaxation response to acetylcholine was determined using isolated tissue setup. In addition, malondialdehyde (MDA) and nitrite were assessed in aortic tissue.
Results: Myricetin -treated diabetic group showed a non-significantly lower maximum contraction to KCl and a significantly lower maximum contraction to phenylephrine (p
MohammadHasan Rakhshani; Roya Akbarzadeh; Mohsen Koshan; Seyyed Morteza Hashemi Nik
Volume 21, Issue 3 , July and August 2014, , Pages 492-450
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Background and Aim: Cardiovascular diseases are major factor in reducing the amount of sleep and increased nighttime wakefulness. Due to the many complications resulting from medication, non-pharmacological methods that can improve the quality of sleep in patients with chronic heart disease, seems to ...
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Background and Aim: Cardiovascular diseases are major factor in reducing the amount of sleep and increased nighttime wakefulness. Due to the many complications resulting from medication, non-pharmacological methods that can improve the quality of sleep in patients with chronic heart disease, seems to be reasonable. This study aimed to assess the effect of the Benson relaxation technique on quality of sleep in patients with chronic heart disease.
Materials and Methods: The study design is a randomized clinical trial. The study population comprised 60 patients with chronic heart disease referring to Vasei hospital in Sabzevar that randomly divided into control group (n =30) and intervention group (n =30). The intervention Group did Benson relaxation exercises for 20 minutes twice a day over a month. Tools for data collection Consists of; demographic form and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index that in two times before and after the intervention were completed. Data with Mann-Whitney test, Chi-square, Fisher exact, Wilcoxon tests and Analysis of Covariance and using SPSS statistical software version 11.5 and with significance level p˂0/05 were analyzed.
Results: The mean± SD quality of sleep in the intervention group before making a gentle Benson relaxation was; 10/33±4/41 that after the intervention was decreased to 7/5±4/01. Analysis of the data in average sleep quality of participants in the intervention group before and after the intervention showed significant differences (P< 0/001).
Conclusion: Benson relaxation has desired effect on sleep quality of patients with chronic heart diseases, so it can be used as a complementary therapy to improve sleep quality in these patients.
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