[Effect of Gestalt therapy on assertiveness of nursing students]

Introduction: Assertiveness, is one of the life skills that effects on increasing self-esteem, logical expression of thoughts and feelings, reducing anxiety, improving social communication skills and supporting human rights and finally increasing life satisfaction and happiness

Objective: This study aimed to determine effects of Gestalt therapy on assertiveness of nursing students

Methods: The pilot of study is situated on clinical trial research experiment, from side to side pre and post control group. Among 80 nursing students enrolled in Nursing and Midwifery school of Islamic Azad University Najaf Abad in 2013-2014 who trained in the field, all those who could not expressed themselves were 36 subjects which measured with ASA scale and 24 subjects who want to enter to the research were separated randomly into experimental and control group. Experimental group consisting of Gestalt therapy, two-hours per session for 8 sessions, were trained. The control group did not receive the interventions. Therefore data analysis performed compairing the mean scores, paired t- test and Independent T Test

Results: In experimental group, the mean scores of assertiveness after intervention increased significantly [P<0/001]. The mean scores of assertiveness of the control group showed no increase significantly [p=0/4]. Comparison between mean score of assertiveness after and before of intervention in experimental group with control group was significant [p<0/005]

Conclusion: Gestalt therapy is effective on increasing of assertiveness. Thus, according to the results of this research, the methods of psychotherapy could be useful and might select, to reduce beliefs and ineffective components

[Investigation of relationship between body image satisfaction and academic field of study of female students of Islamic Azad University branch of Najafabad]

Body image is conception of someone from self schema including: physical appearance, emotional reactions and situational relating body which is shaped from present and past perceptions. When a person hasn't a positive body image and considers his appearance lower than ideal society criteria, one might encounter with inconvenient feelings and outlook towards oneself like decrement in self esteem, low self confidence and even educational subsidence. Since body image can have an effective role in educational progress, therefore, in this research we have tried to investigate the relationship between body image satisfaction and academic field of study of female students. In this descriptive-correlative research 360 female students of Islamic Azad University branch of Najafabad were selected by simple sampling from various fields and were investigated by BSQ34 questionnaire. Data was analyzed by S.P.S.S software version 17 and descriptive analysis, Kruskal Wallis, Mann-Whitney U and Spearman correlation tests were used. Findings of this research showed that 34.4% of the university students had moderate-poor body image and there was a meaning relation between economic status and satisfaction from body image. Among different fields, students of physical training had the least attention to their appearance and art students had the most. Since most of the university students in this research were not satisfied with their appearance and as, paying attention to ones outward appearance can affect different aspect of life, including educational status and also regarding that universities are among the places having vital role in process of forming and improving youth problems therefore it seems that necessary teachings and training should be included in universities syllabus to improve the satisfaction of university students from their body image

[Comparative study of the influence of communication skill with psychiatric patients using Wilkinson-Shimizu method and traditional method on anxious thoughts of nursing students]

The process of communicating with psychiatric patients by nursing students can indicate the extent of their social interaction in the future. Since communicating with these patients is more difficult than others and is often associated with anxiety, the present study was designed to determine the effect of communication skill with psychiatric patients using Wilkinson- Shimizu method and traditional method on anxious thoughts of nursing students. It was a quasi-experimental study with before-after design. The sample consisted of 51 undergraduate nursing students in Najafabad branch of Azad University of Isfahan who were recruited during 2011-2012 academic year by purposive sampling and then were randomly assigned into either experimental or control groups during their mental health clinical practice. The experimental group received training about Wilkinson- Shimizu method and the control group received training by traditional method. Data was collected by the Persian version of Anxious Thought Inventory [AnTI] and analyzed by SPSS-PC [v.17] using mean and standard deviation of the groups and paired t-test. The mean score of anxious thoughts significantly decreased in experimental group [p<0/05]. In control group, the mean score of anxious thoughts significantly increased [p=0/004]. Before and after difference of mean scores of anxious thoughts after training with two methods was significant [P=0/005]. The findings revealed that using Wilkinson- Shimizu method for communication with psychiatric patients affects anxious thoughts of nursing students. Therefore, it is recommended that managers of nursing schools pay more attention to teaching these communication skills and clinical practice about communication with psychiatric patients in nursing curriculum

[ relationship between personality traits and academic motivation in nursing students]

Academic motivation plays an important role in acquiring knowledge and skills. The role of personality in educational success is beyond intelligence. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between personality traits and academic motivation in nursing students. It was a descriptive- correlational study. The sample consisted of 250 undergraduate nursing students in Najafabad branch of Azad University who were recruited during 2010-2011 academic year by census. Data related to personality traits and academic motivation was collected by the Persian version of Neo Big Five Inventory [NEO-BFI] and Hurter's Academic Motivation Questionnaire respectively and analyzed by SPSS-PC [v.16] using stepwise regression. There was a direct significant correlation between academic motivation and conscientiousness trait [P=0.000, r= 0.234] and also extroversion trait [P= 0.001, r= 0.202]. There was an inverse significant correlation between academic motivation and neuroticism trait [P= 0.000, r= - 0.219].no significant relationship was seen between academic motivation and openness and agreeableness traits. This study showed that some Personality traits explain academic motivation in nursing students. Therefore it is suggested that those involved in teaching nursing students consider the role of personality traits when recruiting this students in nursing schools

[ study of correlation between spiritual well-being and hope in cancer patients referring to Seyyedo Shohada training-therapy center of Isfahan university of medical sciences, 2010, Isfahan, Iran]

Religious and spiritual resources are important coping resources for cancer patients during the process of disease that can be used to improve the psychological problems such as despair. This research tries to study the correlation between spiritual well-being and hope in cancer patients. In this descriptive cross-sectional study with demographic questionnaire, Ellison and Palutzian's spiritual well being and Snyder's hope questionnaire, 300 cancer patients who referred to training-therapy center of Isfahan university of medical sciences were selected with Available sampling. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistical and Spearman and Pearson tests and the significant level equal to 0.05 was considered. The findings of this research showed that there was direct and significant correlation between spiritual well-being and hope [r=0.27] [p<0.0001]. Treatment staff can provide opportunities to identify spiritual needs of cancer patients to promote their spiritual health and hope among them. Thus it is recommended in order to maintain health and increase hope among patients, the important role of spiritual health in nursing care of life-threatening diseases such as cancer take into more consideration