abstract introduction: since balance maintenance is one of the indices of determining independence in older people, identifying factors that have some effects on it appears to be an interesting research issue. the aim of this study was to compare the effects of aquatic training; mental training and concurrent training (both aquatic and mental training) on balance in normal elderly males. materi...

objective: this research aimed to study the effect of life skill training on mental health of iranian middle school students. method: this experimental study was conducted in 2015 on 100 students of city of ghaemshahr (north of iran), who were randomly selected and divided into two equal groups of intervention (n = 50) and control (n = 50). qualified trainers provided eight sessions (two sessio...

We examined whether mental health training for staff of an employment training program for out-of-school youth aged 16 to 22 years would increase mental health discussions and referrals. We reviewed case files of participants at 1 Baltimore program who enrolled 6 months before (n = 303) and after (n = 263) a 2-day training program. Chi-square analyses indicated increases in the percentage of pa...

the aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of physical training and working memory training on mental rotation ability. 45 non-athlete female students were purposively selected and randomly assigned to one of these groups: aerobic training, working memory training and control (each group 15 subjects). this study was quasi-experimental, which was a type of pretest-posttest with a...

background: chemical weapon victims are suffering from physical difficulties and psychological trainings may help to decrease these problems. the purpose of this research was to examine the effectiveness of mindfulness and emotion regulation training on physical and psychological well-being in chemical weapon victims. methods: an experimental, pre-post and follow-up study designed. forty seven ...

Background: A systematic and comprehensive mental training program to enhance athletes’ toughness is critical. The aim of this study was develop validate a set programs. Methods: developed, the validity reliability were tested on experts, practitioners, athletes. Training analyzed using content index (I-CVI S-CVI) modified Kappa (<...

today, discussions on health have considered the spiritual – mental health on a par with physical health. a close relationship can be seen between two points, mental health and ethical, training issues, so that individuals who do not have spiritual virtues and religious training are not healthy individuals. due to the considerable importance of moral and mental health about children, this study...

It is well established that performance on standard mental rotation tasks improves with training (Peters et al., 1995), but thus far there is little consensus regarding the degree of transfer to other tasks which also involve mental rotation. In Experiment 1, we assessed the effect of mental rotation training on participants' Mental Rotation Test (MRT) scores. Twenty-eight participants were ran...