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Background and purpose: Addiction is a dependence on the drug that makes him the physical and psychological dependence on drugs and will affect all his personal and social behavior and has been attacked as an important social pathology of human society. Therefore, the aim of this study was Effect of a given exercise program on quality of life and self steam of addicts
Methods and materials: The study was quasi-experimental. Between drug addiction in the center of the 60 Congress, 60 of whom were purposefully selected and divided into two groups. The first group, There were 30 people after detoxification and drug treatments did not participate in exercise programs and advice received, the second Group, There were 30 people on drug treatment and counseling after detoxification were involved in sports programs. In two pre-test and post test subjects responded to questionnaires about quality of life and self steam. Data analysis was performed using the dependent and independent T test whit Using software SPSS16 at significant level [p<0.05]
Results: The groups were not significantly different from each other in pre-test, quality of life [p=0/87, t= 2/011] and self steam [p=0/49, t=0/65] but in the post-test groups with exercise training significantly with quality of life [p=0/002, t=-3/27] and self steam [p=0/007, t= -2/81] were better than the control group. It was observed that two groups of pre-test to post-test significantly [p<0/001] in terms of quality of life and self steam had improved
Conclusion: The results showed that the drug addicts who have used a combination of methods, such as regular exercise of moderate intensity, Had a greater improvement in quality of life and self steam
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Background and Purpose: The emotional intelligence [EQ] includes understanding and control of emotions. The purpose of the present study was investigating the relationship between emotional intelligence and leadership styles [transformation and transaction] in the coaches of sports teams of Region 9 of the Islamic Azad University
Methods and Materials: This study is a cross-sectional descriptive analytical research. The study population included male coaches of the sports teams of the Islamic Azad University Region 9, from among who 240 participants were randomly selected. Data collection was done through emotional intelligence questionnaire [Shoot, validity 0.84], leadership style questionnaire [Varner Bourk, validity 0.79] and a demographic questionnaire. The obtained data were statistically analyzed in SPSS 13 using descriptive statistics [frequency, mean and standard deviation] and Pearson Correlation coefficient
Results: Mean emotional intelligence of the participants was 116.25 +/- 20.21; mean transformation and transaction leadership styles scores were 50.60 +/- 5.41 and 24.42 +/- 5.41, respectively. There was a positive significant correlation between emotional intelligence and transformation leadership style [p=0.001, r=0.404]. Also, there was a significant negative correlation between emotional intelligence and transactional leadership style [p=0.001, r=-0.404]. Investigating the effect of age, experience and educational major on the relationship between emotional intelligence and leadership style showed that older age and experience of the coach highlights this relationship [r=0.475, p=0.000]. However, this correlation was significant only in coaches with non-physical-training education [p=0.000, r=0.559]
Conclusion: According to the results, it can be stated the higher the emotional intelligence in coaches, the stronger their willingness to transformation leadership style will be
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Background and Purpose: Many factors affect the learning of motor skills, one of which is the arrangement pattern of exercises, which can affect the stability and development of a generalized practice schedules and parameterizing the movements. The current research was performed to monitor the effect of different practice schedules on learning and transfer of generalized motor program in a serial task
Methods and Materials: This experimental study involved the population of male right-handed university students at Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Iran. Therefore, 80 participants [age range of 19-23 years old] were randomly allocated into four groups: blocked, random, blocked-random and random-blocked. The test included performance of serial tasks with different generalized motor schedules [spatial dimension variance] and variable timing parameter. The participants took part after pretest phase and accomplishing 108 trial exercises according to practice group in retention and transfer tests. When different tests were performed, amount of relative timing errors [measure of consistency and proficiency of generalized motor program] were calculated. For data analysis, descriptive statistics [mean and standard deviation] and inferential statistics [repeated measures ANOVA and Tukey test] were used in SPSS 16 [p<0.05]
Results: A significant difference [F=3.71, P0.05]
Conclusion: The results showed that the blocked exercises caused a better performance at the acquisition level. However, different patterns caused a similar effect on the performance of participants at the levels of learning and transfer in a serial task
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Addict women face more mental problems than healthy women, and the issue is less attended. Applying inexpensive, easily accessible preventive measures like aerobic training can improve their mental health. The present study was to investigate the effect of aerobic training on the mental health of addict women in the central prison of Zahedan, Iran. This experimental study involved the addict women in the central prison of Zahedan, Iran in 2008. Thirty addict women were randomly selected and assigned into two equal groups [15 controls and 15 experimental]. The Goldberg General Health Questionnaire [GHQ 28] and Demographic Characteristics Questionnaire were used for Data collection. The experimental group was trained for 8 weeks, three weekly sessions of 45 minutes. Both groups completed the questionnaires before and after the 8-week training for the evaluation of their mental health status. The data were analyzed in SPSS 15 using descriptive statistics [frequency, mean and standard deviation] as well as the dependent and independent t-test. Results showed that after eight weeks of aerobic training program, symptoms significantly improved: physical symptoms [from 12.20 +/- 6.37 to 4/ +/- 53 +/- 2/83], anxiety [from 14.47 +/- 4.50 to 4.33 +/- 2.13], depression [from 11.67 +/- 6.78 to 3.60 +/- 3.25] and mental health [from 48.20 +/- 15.50 to 18.87 +/- 6.71] [p
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Because of dyspraxia students have difficulty in some movements and deformity of the spine as a factor can lead to restriction of their movement, the purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between vertebral column deformities and components of the Kepart test in students with dyspraxia. The present descriptive analytical research is a cross-sectional study, involving the male elementary school students of Tehran in 2009. The participants were selected through multi-stage cluster sampling: Zone 4 was chosen by random from among the 22 municipal districts; 5 schools were selected by random from among many schools in the zone; finally, 1100 students were randomly selected. In the first step, we distributed the questionnaire about the conceptual - movement deficiency [validity 0.86]. Eighty students of 8 to 12 years with problems in at least 5 components [out of 14] participated in the Kepart test [validity 0.95]. From them, 34 students with the lowest scores were selected as the study subjects. Then, with the use of Spinal - Mouse machine, the vertebrate column deformities of students were studied from frontal and sagital aspects. For analyzing the data, Pearson's correlation coefficient was used in SPSS 13. The prevalence of deformities was flat back 40%, thoracic kyphosis 29.16% and thoracic scoliosis 20.83% in the subjects. A significant relationship [p=0.05, r=0.34] was found between lumbar lordosis and side walking in students with dyspraxia. Also, the prevalence of dyspraxia was 7.26%, and 2.18% suffered from severe dyspraxia. The results showed that the lower the amount of lumbar lordosis, the lower the students' ability to side walk
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Background and Purpose: Parkinson's disease is one of the common debilitating factors in the elderly. It is caused by disorders in the nucleus of cerebral base which control body movements such as walking and body balance. The present research is intended to study and compare the effects of three exercise patterns [rhythmic, medical ball exercising and stretching exercise] on Parkinsonian patients' equilibrium
Methods and Materials: This quasi-experimental study involved the population of Parkinsonian patients in Kashan and Aranobidgol, Iran. Thirty five male patients [61 +/- 3 years old] with minor Parkinson's disease [Stage 3 in Y and H scale] were selected and randomly assigned into one of the three groups: rhythmic group [N=11], medical ball exercising group [N=12] and stretching exercising group [N=12]. All participants took their medications under medical supervision in the study period. Each group performed the assigned pattern for 10 weeks [three onehour sessions each week]. Berg Balance Scaling [BBS] was used for measurements, and dependent t-test, one-way ANOVA and LSD tests were used for data analysis. All analyses were done in SPSS 16
Results: The results showed that the three different exercising patterns [Rhythmic, medical Ball and stretching exercises] had significantly improved patients' equilibrium by 15.7 %, 5.58% and 4.28% respectively [P=0.001]. It also revealed that rhythmic exercises had more considerable effects on Parkinson patients' equilibrium recovery than medical ball [P=0.03], and stretching exercise [P=0.008]. The effect of exercising with medical ball and stretching exercises on Parkinson patients' balance recovery is almost identical, with no significant difference [P=0.530]
Conclusion: Rhythmic exercise patterns cause more considerable effects on the improvement of equilibrium in Parkinson's patients than other patterns