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Background and Purpose: Patients whit body dysmorphic disorders have dysfunctional negative thoughts about their physical appearance. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of metacognitive intervention on body dysmorphic disorder in a 20-year-old male case
Methods and Materials: This case study used the single case experimental design to reduce the symptoms of a male patient with BDD diagnosis. To collect the data, the client completed the questionnaire in pre-test [as a base-line], last treatment session [as the post-test], and six months after treatment [follow-up]: Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale Modified for BDD [YBOCS-BDD], Thought Fusion Instrument [TFI], Body Dysmorphic Metacognition Questionnaire [BDMCQ], and Beck Anxiety inventory [BAI]. For data analysis, the data chart analysis and graphical methods were used and based on the ascending and descending trend of the scores, effectiveness of the intervention was judged
Results: The scores for the pre-test, post-test, and follow-up examinations were 30, 10, and 10, respectively. His scores of the TFI were 820, 100, and 120, respectively. Finally, the scores for BDMCQ came up to be 45, 10, and 11, respectively, and the scores for [BAI] were: 47-16-18 respectively. Based on the clinical significance measures, the reduction of the symptoms was significant
Conclusion: The metacognitive intervention is effective in reducing the symptoms of the body dysmorphic disorder
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Background and Purpose: Since mental disorders usually occur throughout lifetime, establishing and keeping the sense of spiritual well-being can play a vital role in stress management. The present study investigated the relationship between spiritual well-being and mental health in university students
Methods and Materials: In this correlational descriptive study, 400 students from Hamadan Islamic Azad University [177 male and 223 female] with an average age of 22.7 +/- 4.57 years were selected through relative categorical sampling method from various faculties. They completed the spiritual well-being scale [SWBS] and general health questionnaire [GHQ-28]. Utilized stepwise multiple regression and multivariable analysis of variance [MANOVA] were used in SPSS 16 to analyze the obtained data
Results: The findings showed that mean well-being scores and mental health were 89.18 +/- 17.14 and 52.48 +/- 15.76 respectively. Also, there was a significant correlation between spiritual wellbeing and mental health [r=- 0.55]. Also, 0.37 percent of mental health variance is explained via religious well-being. The results of the analysis of MANOVA showed that the female students' scores are higher than those of male ones [p<0.02, F=4.89] only in the subscale of religious well-being; while no significant difference was observed in other subscales
Conclusion: Based on the results, there is a relationship between spiritual well-being and mental health
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The role of learner's strategies and skills in learning a foreign language has been investigated in the three last decades. However, the part it plays in ESP achievement tests is not seriously treated. Therefore, it seemed a good reason to conduct a study on the role of study strategies in successfully taking the final exam. In this quasi-experimental interventionist study, the SILL questionnaire was given to 253 students taking an ESP course [1384-85 / 2005-2006] to identify their use of language learning strategies. A few moments prior to taking their finals, they took Spielberger's anxiety test to estimate their test anxiety. According to the findings, mean anxiety scores in boys and girls before the final exam were 146.72 and 120.46 respectively, which did not show any significant difference. However, a negative linear relationship was found to exist between SILL score [meta-cognitive strategies in particular] and test anxiety. Among many other outcomes, test anxiety is attributable to inappropriate study habits in adult ESP learners, which requires consideration by both instructors and textbook compilers