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Background: Children suffering from autism hardly learn and tend to be involved in routine interactions with adults and other children. The main purpose of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of play therapy training to mothers of autistic children on verbal and non-verbal improvement of their children
Materials and Methods: 30 autistic children with intermediate degree of autism were selected based on availability sampling procedure and were divided into experimental and control groups. Having collected the intended data and analyzed them with SPSS software
Results: The study finally revealed that the play therapy training significantly improved the social skills of autistic children
Conclusion: These results suggested that applying play therapy with families and teach it to the mothers that have autistic children
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The aim of the present study was to investigate psychometric properties and the Standardization of Simpson's Hope Scale [1999] in Iranian university students. In this descriptive-survey research, 1000 students with age range of 18 to 34 and with the mean age of 23.9 +/- 5.13 were selected via the categorical cluster sampling method from different universities. Then they answered the Snyder's Hope Scale, Oxford Happiness Scale, the Ahwaz Hardiness Scale, the Beck Hopelessness Inventory, Riff's Psychological Well-being Scale, as well as Sympson's [1999] Hope Scale [with little change]. Coefficients of Cronbach's alpha [0.94], split-half [0.85], convergent validity with Hardiness [0.40], Happiness [0.64], Psychological Well-being scales [0.47], divergent validity [Beck Hopelessness, -0.25] criterion validity [Snyder's Hope 0.55] were calculated, which were significant at p<0.01 level. The exploratory factor analysis showed that the 40-item Hope Scale for adults is saturated with five factors [social, academic, family, occupational, and leisure hope] that explain 56% of the scale's variance. Second-order confirmatory factor analysis indicated that the five mentioned factors are well loaded on a principal factor, and therefore, the six-factor model was well fitted with the data [AGFI=0.93, RMSEA= 0.037, NFI=0.98]. The results showed that this test has high reliability and validity and can be used in other studies.
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The present study focused on investigation perceived social support in predicting physical well-being after bone marrow transplantation [BMT] in patients with acute leukemia. Pre-BMT, psychosocial data were gathered on 58 patients [38 men and 20 women] between 18-45 years that selected during 13 months via census procedure. Then, physical well-being was followed up one, two and three months post-BMT. Results showed that some of dimensions of perceived social support predicted physical well-being after BMT. In general, Attention to psychosocial factors prior to BMT and during recovery appears critical for physical well-being.
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This study was planned to investigate the effectiveness of a short cognitive behavioral group intervention for coronary heart disease [CBGI-CHD] on stress and depression in patients with chronic coronary heart disease in a randomized controlled trail. Chronic coronary heart patients were randomly assigned to a 12-week [2.5 hours sessions] cognitive behavioral group intervention for coronary heart disease [n=24] or to a control group [n=22] that received usual care by using pre test-post test control group design. The Intervention group patient were under CBGI-CHD program for 3 months [from June up to end of August, 2010] on Mashhad Imam Reza Hospital Heart Division. Depression symptoms were measured using a Persian version of the Beck depression inventory II [BDI-II], Anxiety symptoms were measured using a Persian version of the Zung self-rating anxiety scale [SAS] and stress symptoms were measured using a Persian version of stress subscale from depression, anxiety and stress scales [DASS-42], before and directly after intervention. Analysis of Covariance showed that the intervention group patients had significant decreases in stress at post test, compared with control group [P<0.05]. Although, the intervention was effective in reducing depression and anxiety but it was not significant [P<0.05]. The results indicate that CBGI-CHD can result reductions in stress, depression and anxiety. Moreover, the results are considered a reliable first step in the process of validating CBGI-CHD program designed to reduction coronary heart disease patients' stress, depression, anxiety and type a behavior pattern. CBGI- CHD can be applied for reducing stress, and anxiety and depression in heart coronary patient's but in the case of depression and anxiety it needs revision in content of intervention and increasing depression and anxiety treatment sessions program. The future researches with longer pursuing periods for reviewing efficacy continuation is suggested