Mahsa Yarelahi; Elham Rezaian; Farzaneh Bahadori; Zeinab Sahraian; Somayeh Abolghsemi; Masoud Karimi
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Background: The success of the vaccination programs against covid-19 depends on the level of community vaccine acceptance. The present study aimed to investigate the predictors of older adults’ intention to uptake the covid-19 vaccine in older adults.Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted ...
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Background: The success of the vaccination programs against covid-19 depends on the level of community vaccine acceptance. The present study aimed to investigate the predictors of older adults’ intention to uptake the covid-19 vaccine in older adults.Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 345 older adults in Jahrom, southern Iran. Participants were enrolled by stratified random sampling. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire consisting of items based on the health belief model (HBM), Theory of planned behavior (TPB) constructs and demographic information. Descriptive statistics, Spearman’s correlation, and Ordinal logistic regression analysis were used for data analysis using SPSS version 25. The level of significance was set at 0. 05.Results: The mean age of participants was 67.7 (7.2) years. Most of the participants (51.3%) intended to receive the vaccine. Perceived barriers (r=-0.201), perceived benefits (r=0.302), selfefficacy (r=0.269), and subjective norms (r=0.387) had significant associations with the intention to vaccine (P<0.001). Subjective norms (β=0.159, P<0.001) were the most powerful predictor of intention to vaccine, followed by perceived benefits (β=0.112, P=0.035) and self-efficacy (β=0.086, P=0.038).Conclusion: health professionals should promote positive attitudes toward the covid-19 vaccine and reports about vaccination by celebrities and trusted people to persuade older adults to receive the covid-19 vaccine.
Atefe Rezaian; Ali Mashhadi; Elham Rezaian; Ebrahim Nazarifar; Seyed Ali Kimiaee
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Introduction: The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of Dattilio cognitive couple therapy on interpersonal cognitive distortions in conflicting couples in Mashhad. Methods: This quasi-experimental study was conducted in 2017 and the participants included all conflicting couples ...
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Introduction: The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of Dattilio cognitive couple therapy on interpersonal cognitive distortions in conflicting couples in Mashhad. Methods: This quasi-experimental study was conducted in 2017 and the participants included all conflicting couples admitted to Psychology Faculty Clinic of Ferdowsi University; also, among them 28 subjects (14 couples) were randomly selected, using convenient sampling method. They were randomly divided into two groups, including experimental (7 couples) and control groups (7 couples). The couples in the experimental group received Dattilio Cognitive Couple Therapy for 10 sessions, each lasting 90 minutes. The sessions were held individually in the presence of the couples. During this period, the control group did not receive any treatment. The research tools included interpersonal cognitive distortion scale (ICDS) and marital conflict inventory (CCI), implemented in pretest and posttest stages. Data were analyzed using single-variable analysis of covariance and Chi-square; the data were analyzed using SPSS- 22 Results: The research results revealed that interpersonal cognitive distortions as well as marital conflicts decreased significantly in the experimental group compared to those in the control group in the posttest. (P>0.05) Conclusion: Thus, it can be concluded that Dattilio Cognitive Couple Therapy is effective in reducing interpersonal cognitive distortions and marital conflicts of conflicting couples.
Mahsa Yarelahi; Masoud Karimi; Ebrahim Nazarifar; Elham Rezaian; Maryam Ghaedi; Abdolrahim Asadollahi
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Background: The lack of knowledge about menopausal care in couples and inappropriate coping with menopause symptoms can reduce the couples' quality of the marital relationship. Therefore, it is necessary to increase the knowledge and ability of men to prevent menopause destructive effects on marital ...
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Background: The lack of knowledge about menopausal care in couples and inappropriate coping with menopause symptoms can reduce the couples' quality of the marital relationship. Therefore, it is necessary to increase the knowledge and ability of men to prevent menopause destructive effects on marital relations and the well-being of the couples. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of men's menopausal care education on their marital satisfaction. Methods: This quasi-experimental study was conducted in 2019 among 80 men in Shiraz, Iran. The samples were randomly selected using cluster random sampling method; they were equally divided into control and intervention groups. Four training sessions were held for the intervention group. The data were collected using a questionnaire on the menopausal knowledge and the ENRICH-10 questionnaire at the beginning and two months after the intervention and analyzed using SPSS v. 25 and Amos v. 21. Results: Based on the results, at the beginning of the study, there was no significant difference in the mean score of the menopausal knowledge and marital satisfaction between the intervention and control groups (p <0.0001). However, men's menopausal knowledge and their marital satisfaction in the intervention group significantly increased. No significant increase was found in men's menopausal knowledge or their marital satisfaction in the control group. Conclusion: Education can increase the men's ability to cope with menopausal symptoms. Therefore, providing family health counseling services in health centers and family counseling is recommended.
Ebrahim Nazari Far; Mohammad Hossein Kaveh; Elham Rezaian; Mahsa Yarelahi; Abdolrahim Asadollahi
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Objective: Caregiving burden is defined as a specific level of pressure and problems expressed by caregiver or family, which involves a range of psychological, emotional, social and economic problems. Further, satisfaction is described as the level of the mental happiness, self-confidence and usefulness ...
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Objective: Caregiving burden is defined as a specific level of pressure and problems expressed by caregiver or family, which involves a range of psychological, emotional, social and economic problems. Further, satisfaction is described as the level of the mental happiness, self-confidence and usefulness sensed by caregiver about his/her own caregiving behaviour. The present study aimed to assess the psychometric properties of the Persian version of caregiving satisfaction (SCR) and caregiving burden of grandchildren scales (BCR) among grandparent population by considering the lack of a Persian tool for their measurement. Method: This cross-sectional, descriptive-analytic study was conducted on 70 grandparents who were selected through convenience sampling among the individuals referred to the healthcare centres of five southern cities in Iran Shiraz, Sepidan, Fasa, Jahrom, and Borazjan from April to August, 2019. The questionnaires were filled out by individual interview with participants and the data were analysed through explanatory and confirmatory factor analyses and ROC curve, using SPSS 25 and Amos 21. Results: Two factors were extracted in each questionnaire (Regarding each questionnaire, happiness and responsibility in individual and social satisfaction in caregiving burden were extracted through explanatory factor analysis), representing 78.1 and 75.1% of total variance, respectively. The Cronbach's coefficients alpha related to these subscales were obtained as 0.709-0.859 by indicating an acceptable internal consistency. Conclusion: The Persian version of these questionnaires had appropriate validity and reliability required for measuring satisfaction and caregiving burden of grandchildren among Iranian grandparents and can be used in day care and healthcare centres.