Abstract   Background & Aim: Providing protection strategies against depression or anxiety after coronary artery bypass surgery has been recommend by different studies. Accordingly this study was conducted to investigate the relationship between perceived social support and depression and anxiety before and after surgery in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft in 201...

Introduction: Mental health and perceived social support are important variables in preventing marital boredom in infertile women. The aim of this study was to predict marital boredom based on perceived social support and mental health in infertile women. Method: The present study was a correlational study. The statistical population included infertile women referring to the infertility ward o...

Introduction: Body image is one of the important aspects of people's mental health, and those who suffer from amputation face many problems related to body image concerns. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of developing the structural relationship between mindfulness and body image concern in amputees with the mediating role of perceived social support. Methods: The curre...

  Background and Aim: Cancer produces many problems in all dimensions of human life. and cause increased supportive needs patients. Dramatic increase in the number of cancer patients, different treatments and health care costs highlights the need for a better social setting towards a healthy life. Present study determines the correlation between perceived social support from different and suppo...

Background: One of the important goals in control diabetes to maintain normal levels of glycated hemoglobin, but different social and psychological factors such as social support and alexithymia play role on process of this control. The purpose of present study was to examine the role of alexithymia on the association of social support and glycated hemoglobin in patients with type 2 diabetes. M...

Introduction: Social anxiety remembered as an annoying experience in the presence of others is one of the most common mental disorders, especially in students. Objective: The current study aimed at determining the relationship between perceived social support and maladaptive emotional schemes with social anxiety in students. Materials and Methods: The current correlational analytic study was ...

Abstract Background & Aim: Psychological variables play an important role in job burnout of nurses. This research aimed to investigate the relationship of some variables such as perceived social support, social capital and quality of life with job burnout of nurses. Materials & Methods: This is a descriptive analytical study of correlation type. The statistical population of this research...

Introduction: Nurses, as one of the most important groups of care providers, always face with many stressors, which have negative effects for both the nurses and the patients. This study was aimed to investigate the role of perceived social support and job satisfaction on psychological distress of clinical nurses working in hospitals of Babol University of Medical Sciences. Materials and Method...

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of perceived stress, social support, and body image in predicting the severity of depressive symptoms in ostomy patients. Methods: In this descriptive/correlational study with a cross-sectional design, 120 ostomy patients referred to the Iranian Ostomy Society were selected using a convenience sampling technique, and responded t...

Abstract The aim of the present study is to compare personality characteristics and social support of successful and unsuccessful addicts in quitting addiction. In this causal-comparative research 50 successful addicts in quitting addiction, and 50 unsuccessful addicts were selected using convenience sampling. Data were collected using NEO personality questionnaire and Procidano and Heller p...