conclusions depression and anxiety are prevalent in methamphetamine users. short-term abstinence improves depression and quality of life but does not improve anxiety in methamphetamine abusers. during follow up of these patients, addressing depression and anxiety is important to achieve better results. results the mean depression score after abstinence decreased significantly (p < 0.001). both ...

purpose: the aim of this study was to investigate the relations of locus of control, rumination, and worry with depression and anxiety in a sample of depressed and anxious patients. a second purpose of the study was to examine the mediating role of rumination and worry on the relationship between locus of control with depression and anxiety. method: one hundred and twelve patients with major de...

objectives: the present research was carried out to investigate the role of psychological structures particularly dysfunctional attitudes with its consequence depression in incidence and severity of coronary heart disease. method: in this research 30 patients (28 males and 2 females) suffering from myocardial infarction and 30 nonpatient individuals (28 males and 2 females) after matching were ...

background: psychological profile of inflammatory bowel disease patients is not well studied in iran. we investigated the psychological status of iranian patients with ulcerative colitis (uc) and its relationship with disease activity and quality of life (qol). materials and methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted on adult uc patients. the lichtiger colitis activity index, hospital anxie...

objective: previous studies have shown that menopausal women are more likely to experience depression. however, there are few studies that investigated the cognitive mechanism that may have a role in developing depression in menopausal women. thus, the present study aimed to investigate the mediating role of life satisfaction in the relation between subjective evaluation of stressors and depres...

objectives: some of the mothers of children with cancer suffer from reactive depression and confront existential crises, and benefit from their image of god in coping with it. the purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of spiritually-oriented cognitive therapy on reducing depression symptoms in mothers of children with cancer. methods: a single case experimental design and an ...

abstract aim and background: infertility is a complex crisis in the lives of infertile couples is considered. reaction to infertility by negative psychological reactions including depression, incompetent individual, marital and relationship problems and disorders, is observed. the present study examined the efficacy of reality therapy on depression in infertile women undergoing treatment with a...

conclusions in this study, undergoing a hysterectomy did not show a relationship with postoperative depression three months after the surgery. moreover, the only factor related to depression following a hysterectomy was satisfaction with the surgery. background hysterectomy is one of the most common gynecological surgeries performed worldwide. however, women undergoing this surgery often experi...

conclusions spiritual intervention effectively could reduce the severity of postmenopausal depression. considering the high prevalence of depression in postmenopausal women and the effectiveness, simplicity, and affordability of spiritual intervention, using such interventions in postmenopausal women is recommended. patients and methods a randomized controlled clinical trial was conducted on po...

objective: the present study aimed to investigate the selective attention hypothesis in a group of iranian outpatients with depressive disorder. methods: causal-comparative and correlation methods were used to analyze the data. a total of 60 subjects participated in this study. of them, 31 patients diagnosed with depression were assigned in the depressive group and 29 nondepressed individuals w...