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Showing 7 results for Akbari
Mahmoodreza Taghizadeh, Sajad Ahmadizad, Faribourz Hovanloo, Atousa Akbarinia,
Volume 2, Issue 2 (9-2013)
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Abstract Aim. The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of concentric and eccentric isokinetic contractions and subsequent recovery period on the hemodynamic factors in men. Background. Nowadays, with advances in technology and producing the innovative training equipment, performing different resistance exercise protocols for improving the muscular and cardiovascular function is possible. Method. In this quasi-experimental study, ten healthy male subjects were volunteered to participate in the study and performed two protocols of Concentric/Concentric (CON/CON) and Eccentric/Eccentric (ECC/ECC) isokinetic contractions (4 sets, 10 repetitions, 60˚/S) including knee flexion and extension with dominant leg, in two separate sessions. Hemodynamic factors were measured before, immediately and 30 min after exercise. Findings. Statistical analyses of data showed that hemodynamic parameters increased in response to both isokinetic contractions (p<0.001) and decreased following recovery period. Moreover, Systolic Blood Pressure (SBP), Mean Arterial Pressure (MAP) and Rate Pressure Product (RPP) responses to two types of contractions (CON/CON and ECC/ECC) were significantly different (p<0.05). Regardless of contraction type, the Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE) increased significantly from 1st set to 4th set though, these changes were not significantly different between two protocols (p>0.05). Conclusion. Hemodynamic changes in response to CON/CON was higher than ECC/ECC protocol which shows that the acute ECC/ECC is safer than CON/CON protocol.
Mohammad-Ali Cheraghi, Khadijeh Akbari, Fatemeh Bahramnezhad, Hamid Haghani,
Volume 3, Issue 4 (3-2015)
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Aim. This study was conducted to determine the effect of instrumental music on sleep in patients admitted to the coronary care unit (CCU).
Background. Poor quality sleep, as a distressing situation, can aggravate myocardial ischemia and infarction. The music as a cheap, and noninvasive approach with a slow rhythm, monotonous and repetitive, may have inducing-sleep or relaxation effect.
Method. The present study was a clinical trial conducted in 2014. The samples consisted of 72 patients with acute coronary syndrome admitted to coronary care unit of hospitals affiliated with Tehran University of Medical Sciences. They were selected using the simple random sampling method and divided into experimental (n=36) and control (n=36) group. The quality of sleep was measured in the beginning of hospitalization and three days after admision, and the quantity of sleep was measured all the three days using the Pittsburgh sleep quality index and the sleep log quantity indices in experimental and control group. The intervention was implemented in the form of playing instrumental music in headphones since the first night of hospitalization for a three-night time span (45 minutes a night) in the beginning of the patients’ sleep. Data were analyzed by SPSS software, version 16, using descriptive and inferential statistics (chi-square, fisher's exact test, independent samples T test).
Findings. According to the findings, the mean change in the sleep quality score, before and after intervention, and sleep quantity at the three nights of hospitalization were significantly different between experimental and control group (p<0.0001).
Conclusion. The instrumental music can be effective in improving patients’ sleep quality and quantity. Therefore, nurses can benefit from this non-pharmacological method in their daily care to improve their patients’ sleep.
Masume Zakerimoghadam, Ali Sadeghi-Akbari, Mohammad-Ali Cheraghi, Anoushirvan Kazemnejad,
Volume 4, Issue 1 (6-2015)
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Aim. This study aimed at investigating the effect of education based on illness perception on self-care behaviors of patients with heart failure.
Background. Heart failure is the final outcome of most cardiovascular diseases, reducing patients’ self-care behaviors as a chronic condition. Changing illness perception of patients with heart failure about the disease is a way to improve the self-care behaviors in these patients.
Method. An experimental design was used to conduct the study. Seventy and six patients with heart failure who admitted to hospitals affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences and were eligible to participate in the study was recruited in 2014 and were randomly divided into intervention and control group. The intervention group attended in three educational sessions and received cell phone follow-up for 8 weeks. The control group received conventional treatment. The self-care behaviors was compared in both groups before, and eight weeks after the intervention. The data were analyzed by SPSS-16 software.
Findings. There was no statistical significant difference between demographic variables of two groups. Self-care behaviors in the intervention group increased after the intervention when compared with the control group (p<0.0001). In the experimental group, the mean score of self-care behaviors after the intervention was significantly higher than mean score before intervention (p<0.0001).
Conclusion. The results showed that education based on illness perception affects self-care behaviors in patients with heart failure. It is suggested as an effective method to promote the self-care behaviors in these patients.
Zeinab Hajaliakbari,
Volume 6, Issue 3 (12-2017)
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Aim. This review study was designed to identify the benefits of cardiac rehabilitation and the factors affecting the participation of cardiac patients in cardiac rehabilitation programs.
Background. Cardiovascular diseases are the main cause of death and hospitalization in developed countries. Given that cardiac rehabilitation is as an important component of care for all patients with acute cardiac events, the knowledge of the benefits of cardiac rehabilitation for the prevention of secondary complications of these conditions may reinforce the patients to participate in cardiac rehabilitation programs.
Method. This study is a review of the papers related to cardiac rehabilitation searched out by databases PubMed, Scopus, Google Scholar and Persian articles published in this subject.
Findings. The evidence has shown that those who have participated in cardiac rehabilitation programs are less likely to experience death and morbidity. In general, cardiac rehabilitation can prevent deaths due to heart disease, reduces the possibility of surgery and angiography and reduces the need for hospitalization. Studies over the last 30 years indicate that participating in cardiac rehabilitation programs improve functional capacity, risk factors, quality of life related to health and reduce cardiovascular mortality.
Conclusion. Cardiac rehabilitation is beneficial for patients with cardiovascular disease. It leads to reduction of mortality and morbidity, need for cardiac surgery, and re-hospitalization, and increases functional capacity, and quality of life.
Sara Rezai, Shadi Dehghanzadeh, Bahman Akbari,
Volume 7, Issue 4 (3-2019)
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Aim. The aim of this study was to determine the role of resiliency and life expectancy in predicting psychological well-being of heart failure patients.
Background. Regarding the importance of psychological well-being in improving the health of patients with heart failure, examining the affective variables such as resiliency and life expectancy are of great importance.
Method. This research was a descriptive correlational study. Statistical population consisted of all of Rasht heart failure patients in 2018. 265 heart failure patients were selected using convenience sampling. The data collection instruments were Ryff's psychological well-being, Connor and Davidson’s resilience, and Snyder et al's hope. Abstract
Aim. The aim of this study was to determine the role of resiliency and life expectancy in predicting psychological well-being of people with heart failure.
Background. Regarding the importance of psychological well-being in improving the health of patients with heart failure, examining the relationship of affective variables such as resiliency and life expectancy with psychological well-being is of great importance.
Method. This research was a descriptive correlational study. Statistical population consisted of all of heart failure patients in Rasht, Iran, in 2018. In this study, 265 heart failure patients were selected using convenience sampling. The data collection instruments were the questionnaires Ryff's psychological well-being, Connor and Davidson’s resilience, and Snyder et al.’s hope. The collected data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and stepwise multiple regression.
Findings. There was a positive relationship of psychological well-being with resiliency (r=0.386) and life expectancy (r=0.396). The regression analysis showed that the meaning of life and subscales of factor thinking and spiritual influences can significantly predict 0.228 of psychological well-being in heart failure patients.
Conclusion. Regarding the determinants of psychological well-being in this research, psychological well-being and quality of nursing care in heart failure patients can be increased using interventions such as resiliency education programs and psychological treatments focusing on hope.
The collected data were analyzed using pearson correlation coefficient and stepwise multiple regression.
Findings. The results of this study revealed positive relationship between resiliency and life expectancy with psychological well-being. The regression showed that meaning of life and subscales of factor thinking and spiritual influences can predict psychological well-being of heart failure patients.
Conclusion. Regarding the determinants of resilience in this research, psychological well-being of heart failure patients can be increased using interventions such as resiliency education programs and psychological treatments focusing on hope.
Reza Ranjbaran, Mahnaz Aliakbari Dehkordi, Majid Saffarinia, Ahmad Alipour,
Volume 8, Issue 1 (3-2019)
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Aim. This study aimed to determine the effect of health promoting lifestyle training on vitality, psychological well-being and blood pressure of women with cardiovascular disease.
Background. Women with cardiovascular disease have many problems in physical and mental health and one of the effective methods in this field is health promoting lifestyle training method.
Method. This was a quasi-experimental study with pretest-posttest and follow-up design with control group. The study population consisted of women with cardiovascular disease referred to Rajaie Cardiovascular Medical and Research Center in Tehran, Iran, in 2019. The sample consisted of 40 women who were selected by purposeful sampling method and randomly allocated into experimental and control group. The experimental group received eight 75-minute educational session (one session per week) on health promoting lifestyle and the control group placed on the waiting list for training. Data were collected using questionnaires vitality and psychological well-being and sphygmomanometer and were analyzed by Chi-square test, independent t-test, repeated measures and Bonferroni post-hoc test in SPSS Version 19.
Findings. In the pretest stage, there was no statically significant difference between the experimental and control group in terms of vitality, psychological well-being and blood pressure, but in the posttest and follow-up stages, there was found a statically significant difference in terms of all three variables of vitality, psychological well-being and blood pressure, meaning that health promoting lifestyle training method led to increase vitality and psychological well-being and decrease blood pressure of women with cardiovascular disease. This effect continued in follow-up stage.
Conclusion. The method of health promoting lifestyle training led to improve the vitality, psychological well-being and blood pressure of women with cardiovascular disease. It is recommended that health care providers use health promoting lifestyle training method along with other educational and therapeutic modalities to improve the health-related components.
Negar Akbari Zargar, Seyyed Seyed Abbas Haghayegh, Saeed Jahanian, Sheida Jabalameli,
Volume 10, Issue 1 (3-2021)
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Aim. The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of acceptance-based therapy and emotion-based cognitive therapy on psychological well-being of patients with cardiac arrhythmia.
Background. The study of heart disease has long been noted by psychological factors because an individual with cardiac arrhythmias may suffer from mental well-being.
Method. This was a quasi-experimental study and to collect the data, a pre-test-post-test design with two experimental and one control group was used. The statistical population of the study consisted of all cardiac arrhythmia patients of Amirabad Heart Hospital in Tehran, out of which 60 people were selected by convenience sampling method and randomly divided into two experimental groups (20 people in each group) and one control group (20). The tools used in the present study included mental well-being (Reef, 1995), which were used in two stages of pre-test and post-test.
Findings. According to the findings, the mean score of psychological well-being in both experimental groups (acceptance-based therapy and emotion-based cognitive therapy) increased in the post-test stage compared to the pre-test, and these interventions increased the score of psychological well-being components in patients with heart arrhythmia compared to control group.
Conclusion. Clinicians can use these interventions (acceptance-based therapy and emotion-based cognitive therapy) in patients with cardiac arrhythmias to promote psychological well-being and recovery.
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