Hossein Hasanabadi; Habibollah Esmaili; Mahin Tafazzoli; Eliyeh Abbasi
Volume 15, Issue 2 , July and August 2008, , Pages 104-109
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Background and purpose: Mental health of mothers during pregnancy has considerable effects on fetal growth and consequently on baby's future health. Therefore using various methods to enhance the mental health of mothers will have an important role in minimizing baby's and mother's problems. The present ...
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Background and purpose: Mental health of mothers during pregnancy has considerable effects on fetal growth and consequently on baby's future health. Therefore using various methods to enhance the mental health of mothers will have an important role in minimizing baby's and mother's problems. The present study was conducted to determine the effect of training maternal-fetal attachment on mother's mental health Methods and materials: This interventional study was conducted on 83 pregnant women selected through purposive sampling from among the population of pregnant women admitted to health centers and were divided randomly into case and control groups. Data collection instruments included interview checklist MFAS GHQ- 28. Cases received training on maternal-Fetal attachment behavior but controls received only the routine pregnancy care. Scores of mental health and maternal-Fetal attachment before and after training were compared across the two groups. Chi- squre Fisher's exact test Mann Whitney U and t-test were used for data analysis. Results: The results indicated that differences in the mean score of mental health before training across the two groups were not statistically significant (p=0.51). However the difference came up to be significant after training (p
Z KHALAJINIA; H HASANABADI; Z ABEDIAN; H ESMAEILI
Volume 14, Issue 3 , September and October 2007, , Pages 185-191
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Background and Purpose: Dysmenorrhea is one of the common problems of women at the childbearing age and has social, psychological, physical and economic consequences. As emotional factors influence physical conditions and the perception of pain, this study was conducted at the University of Mashad, Iran ...
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Background and Purpose: Dysmenorrhea is one of the common problems of women at the childbearing age and has social, psychological, physical and economic consequences. As emotional factors influence physical conditions and the perception of pain, this study was conducted at the University of Mashad, Iran to compare the personality features of medical students with and without early dysmenorrheal.
Methods and Materials: This is a descriptive analytical and cross-sectional study and the study population was the female medical students at Mashad University of Medical Sciences in 2004. 200 students were proportionately sampled using a subject selection form. They also filled out the interview checklist, the lifestyle questionnaire and the Cassidy Social Support Form. On specific days, the menses pain intensity form, history of menses form and Eysenk Personality Questionnaire were completed. The obtained data were analyzed in SPSS using Chi square, Fischer’s Exact Test, t-test, Mann Whitney and Regression model.
Results: Significant differences were found between the two groups as for the frequency of introversion: in the group with dysmenorrhea 67% and the other group only 12% were introverts. In addition, the frequency of neurosis was statistically different across the two groups (52% in the group with dysmenorrhea and 10% in the other group). Also the two groups were statistically different in the prevalence of psychosis (72% versus 32% for the group with and without dysmenorrheal respectively).
Conclusion: Introversion, psychosis and neurosis were more prevalent in women with dysmenorrhea than in women without dysmenorrhea.