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Introduction: psychological factors such as negative emotions play an important role in the management of diabetes mellitus one of the most common chronic diseases. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of emotion regulation training in improving emotion regulation strategies and glycemic control in patients with type II diabetes
Materials and Methods: this quasi-experimental study had a pretest-posttest design. The study population included 40 patients with type II diabetes, selected by convenience sampling from the Samen Alaemmeh charity center and randomly divided in two, the experimental and the control, groups [n=20 each]. Subjects in both groups completed the Garnfski`s Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire [2001, CERQ] both pretest and posttest, and Hb [A1C] was also measured at these times in both groups. Eight 90 minute sessions of emotion regulation group therapy were conducted in eight weeks. Data were analyzed by covariance analysis method with software spss-18
Results: data analysis showed that emotion regulation strategies and glycemic control in the experimental compared to the control group, at posttest were decreased [p<0.05]
Conclusion: based on the results of this study, emotion regulation training could be an effective method for improvement of emotion regulation problems and glycemic control in patients with type II diabetes
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Background: some previous surveys have indicated on high prevalence of low back pain in helicopter pilots, but there are a few studies about comparing of musculoskeletal complaints between helicopter and aero plane pilots
Materials and Methods: an interview based Nordic questionnaire was carried out in 150 aero plane pilots and 209 helicopter pilots. For this analytical study, we used x2 and fisher exact test for comparing qualitative variables, and for quantitative variables with normal distribution we used parametric tests. Odds ratio [OR] and %95 CI were used for comparing the proportion of risks estimate
Results: the means of monthly flight hours were 12.6±10 and 54.5±12 in helicopter and aero plane pilots, respectively. After flight's low back pain was prevalent among both groups %42 and %40 in helicopter and aero plane pilots, respectively. Classification of other musculoskeletal complaints ware %35 and %37 for upper back, %33 and %30 for neck, %32 and %30 for shoulder and arm, %25.4 and %32.8 for knee and leg, %25 and %23.3 for thigh and buttock and %18 and %30 for ankle and foot in helicopter and aero plane pilots, respectively. [all results were with p-value >0.005]. Odds ratios [OR] for comparing of risk estimate between helicopter and aero plane pilots were not significant after flight in any site. But, ORs for effect of musculoskeletal pain on normal daily activity during the last year were 6.2 [95%CI: 1.4-26.8] for low back pain, 8.4 [95%CI: 1.12-63.43] for upper back pain and 9.6 [95% CI: 1.2-72] for neck pain
Conclusion: this study showed that after flight's low back pain was more prevalent in nearly two groups. And normal daily activity affected by musculoskeletal complains was significantly more prevalent in helicopter pilots. But for accurate conclusion we need more data