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The purpose of this investigation is to determine the efficacy of emotionally focused couples therapy [EFT-C] on enhancement of marital adjustment in infertile couples. This was a semi-experimental study with a pre- and post-test design. We selected 30 infertile couples [60 subjects] by purposive sampling. Couples were randomly assigned to two groups, sample and control. Each group consisted of 15 couples who had marital maladjustment and low sexual satisfaction. Couples answered the marital adjustment and sexual satisfaction questionnaires at baseline after which the sample group received 10 sessions of EFT-C. Results of pre-test and post-test showed that EFT-C significantly impacted marital adjustment and sexual satisfaction. EFT-C had a significant effect on enhancement of satisfaction, cohesion and affectional expression. This approach impacted physical and emotional sexual satisfaction of infertile couples
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Objective: There are not enough good instruments for assessing driving behavior in Iran. This study aimed to investigate factor structure, convergent and divergent validity, and reliability of driving behavior survey [DBS]
Methods: The study method is descriptive and survey. Participants comprised 147 Sample selected by convenient method. Iranian drivers who completed DBS, Manchester driver behavior questionnaire, trait anxiety scale, and trait anger scale
Results: findings showed that 3 factors of DBS could explain 39% of total variance. Anxiety-based performance deficits, exaggerated safety and caution behaviors, and hostility/aggressive behaviors were 3 factors of DBS. There were convergent correlations between DBS subscales and common driving mistakes and traffic rules violations. Cronbach's alpha was estimated 0.77, 0.65 and 0.70 for subscales
Conclusion: Driving behavior survey has convincing psychometrical features. It could be used in general population and clinical settings for investigating anxious drivers
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Introduction: among different specific strategies for treatment of drug abuse disorders, Family therapy has been attractive forre searcher. The family therapy would increase the efficacy of other approaches. The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of integration of structural and solution- focused family therapy[cutting down on use of substance] in treating substan ceabusers and improving family function.
Methods: This semi-experimentalstudy was carried out with preand post-test and a six-month follow-up along with Control group. The population included all families who hada drug abuser member and referred to zibadasht health center in 22nd district of Tehran in 2013.30 families selected viaConvenience sampling method and after matching, they were randomly divided into two experiment [15 families] and control [15 families] groups. Demographic questionnaire, addicts tests [opium] and family survey were used to collect data. pre and post-tests and also a six-month follow up were given for both groups .Data was analyzed through SPSS11 using multi-variables covariance anlysis and chi-squar test.
Results:The results revealed that combination of structural and solution- focused family therapy is effective in both treating substance abusers [cutting down on use of substance] and enhancing the family function since 80 percent of population in post-test [X2= 20, p<0.0001] and 66 percent of population in sixmonth follow-up [X2= 11.63, p<0.0001] were succeed to cut down on substance use.
ConclusionsThis study indicates thatan integrative approaches includingsolution-focused family therapy and structural one are more effective than the single approache in the treating [cutting down on use of substance]drug abusers and increasing their families' function.
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Patients with ischemic heart disease [IHD] may report difficulties with sexual function and marital relationship. However, there is a dearth of studies focusing on the association between these aspects in IHD patients. The present study sought to assess the association between sexual function and marital relationship among IHD patients and also test the effect modification of gender, education level, and marital distress on the above association. In this cross-sectional study, 551 patients with IHD were enrolled and their sexual function and marital relationship quality were assessed with the Relation and Sexuality Scale [RSS] and Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale [RDAS], respectively. Association between marital relationship quality and sexual function was assessed with respect to gender, education level, and marital distress. Most participants [72%] were men at a mean age of 57 +/- 11 [range = 36-80] years. Total sexual function was significantly correlated with total marital quality [r = -0.28], marital consensus [r = -0.17], marital coherence [r = -0.19], marital affection expression [r = -0.22], and marital satisfaction [r = -0.25]. Total marital quality also showed a significant association with sexual fear [r = -0.11]. These associations were moderated by gender, education level, and marital distress level. Among the IHD patients, sexual function and marital relationship quality showed a mild to moderate association. Association between sexual function and marital relationship quality, however, may depend on gender, education level, and marital distress level
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The overwhelming rate of progress in biotechnological research especially in human genetics, as well as the high levels of power these researches provide us to intervene in human lives, brings serious concerns on the ethical problems that may rise from these research endeavors. To address this critical issue in Iran, we conducted a study issuing publishing authors of studies in human genetics from Iran, between years 2005 to 2011. We contacted 116 corresponding authors of articles issuing genetics research on human subjects, asking them that whether they have gotten either informed consent from their study subjects or ethical approval from their institutional ethics committee. Only 13% of the authors presented both documents; 52% had not gotten any of the documents; 19% of authors felt no need for getting the mentioned documents; 13% declared that they only gotten oral consent and 3% of authors did not remember whether they have gotten any documentation or not. The trend for informed consent taking was improving over time, from 5% in year 2006 to 24% in 2009. The result was not satisfactory but showed good trend towards improvement, recommending more serious follow up concerning ethical aspects of articles published in human genetics