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Mitra Hasanehzadeh Kiani, Zahra Dashtbozorgi, Marjan Alizadeh,
Volume 10, Issue 1 (3-2021)
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Aim. This study was conducted to compare the effect of positivism education and health promoting lifestyle education on psychological well-being and health anxiety in people with cardiovascular disease.
Background. People with cardiovascular disease have problems in the terms of psychological well-being and health anxiety and positivism education and health promoting lifestyle education are likely to be effective in improving psychological well-being and health anxiety.
Method: The present study was a semi-experimental study with pre-test and post-test design with a control group. The study population consisted of people with cardiovascular disease who referred to Golestan Hospital of Ahvaz city, Iran, in 2021. Sixty people were recruited by purposive sampling method based on inclusion criteria and randomly assigned to three equal groups. Experimental groups separately underwent 8 sessions of 90-minute duration by positivism education and health promoting lifestyle education, respectively, and during this time the control group did not receive any intervention. Data were collected by the demographic information form, short form health anxiety inventory and psychological well-being revisited questionnaire, and were analyzed by Chi-square, univariate analysis of variance, multivariate analysis of covariance and Bonferroni post-hoc test in SPSS-19 software.
Findings. The findings showed that the experimental and control groups did not significantly differ in terms of gender, education level, age and duration of cardiovascular disease. Both methods of positivism education and health promoting lifestyle education were effective in improving psychological well-being and health anxiety in people with cardiovascular disease (P≤0.0001), but there was no statistically significant difference between the intervention methods in improving psychological well-being and health anxiety.
Conclusion. The effect of both methods of positivism education and health promoting lifestyle education on improving psychological well-being and health anxiety was confirmed and there was no significant difference between these methods in improving psychological well-being and health anxiety. Therefore, health professionals and therapists can use both methods to improve health-related characteristics.
Elham Tavakoli, Fatemeh Golshani, Anita Baghdasarians,
Volume 14, Issue 1 (3-2025)
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Aim. The present study aimed to evaluate a causal model of health anxiety based on spirituality, with the mediating role of cognitive avoidance in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) nurses.
Background. Health anxiety is considered one of the major psychological challenges in clinical settings, particularly among ICU nurses, who face significant psychological and emotional pressures, which can have detrimental effects on their professional performance and personal well-being.
Method. This was a descriptive correlational study. The statistical population consisted of all male and female nurses working in ICUs in Tehran (District 3) during the spring and summer 2024. A sample of 267 nurses was selected via non-random quota sampling, and they completed the Health Anxiety Inventory, the Spirituality Questionnaire, and the Cognitive Avoidance Questionnaire. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM) via AMOS 26 software.
Findings. The results indicated that the proposed model has a good fit with the data and accounts for 67 percent of the variance in health anxiety. In the structural model, the direct path from spirituality to health anxiety was negative and significant (â= - 0.655), while the path from cognitive avoidance to health anxiety was positive and significant (â= 0.569). Furthermore, spirituality had a significant indirect effect on health anxiety by reducing cognitive avoidance (â= - 0.288).
Conclusion. Spirituality and cognitive avoidance are key components in explaining health anxiety. These findings emphasize the importance of simultaneously considering internal spiritual resources and cognitive strategies in understanding the structure of health anxiety and provide a theoretical basis for designing psychological interventions to promote mental health among ICU nurses.
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