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2015| July-September | Volume 1 | Issue 3
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Knowledge, attitude, and practice of exercise during pregnancy among antenatal mothers
Elamurugan Sujindra, Arounassalame Bupathy, A Suganya, R Praveena
July-September 2015, 1(3):234-237
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:10.4103/2395-2296.158347
Introduction:
Safe maternity with improved neonatal outcomes is predicated on proper antenatal health care services. Regular exercise is promoted for its overall health benefits. The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, recommends that pregnant women can exercise moderately for 30 min on most days of the week.
Methodology:
A total of 200 antenatal mothers were included in the study, who filled in the questionnaire. The questionnaire comprised of 25 questions (21 on knowledge, 3 on attitude and 1 on practice). For knowledge items categorical responses (yes, I don't know and no) were applied with an item score of '2', '1', '0' respectively for positive knowledge. For attitude and practice the answers were either yes, no. Data were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS).
Results:
Response rate was 100%. The age range of the study group was 18-35 years with a mean age of 25 ± 4.51 years. The majority of the study population were Hindus (81%), had undergone primary education (63%) and were homemakers (74%). The total mean knowledge score was 20.53 ± 2.08. 51% felt it was necessary to do exercise during pregnancy. 18% were practicing exercise in pregnancy.
Conclusion:
The knowledge of our women on exercise during pregnancy was less than average, and their attitude was favorable. However a very few were actually practicing exercise in pregnancy.
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Acceptance and commitment therapy on parents of children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders
Shuvabrata Poddar, VK Sinha, Mukherjee Urbi
July-September 2015, 1(3):221-225
DOI
:10.4103/2395-2296.158331
Aim:
Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are neurodevelopmental disorders that hinder the normal developmental process and pose enormous challenges to the parents in terms of their role expectations and adjustment with the irreversible conditions of their child. However, little attention has been paid to their psychological needs and wellbeing. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) focuses on accepting things that are beyond control and commit to changing those things, which are possible to change, by increasing the psychological flexibility of the person, thereby aiding to better realistic adjustments. The present study aims at studying the effectiveness of ACT on parents of children and adolescents with ASDs.
Materials and Methods:
It followed a repeated measures design, comprising five parents having children and adolescents with ASDs receiving treatment from inpatient and outpatient services of Child Guidance Clinic, Central Institute of Psychiatry, to test the effect of 10 session protocol spanned over 2-month. Assessment measures were done along state anxiety, depression, psychological flexibility and quality of life using State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Beck Depression Inventory, Acceptance and Action Questionnaire, the World Health Organization Quality of Life Assessment-BREF respectively. Baseline measures were taken prior to the treatment and follow-up measures were taken after nine treatment sessions.
Results:
Pre- to post-treatment improvements were found on state anxiety, depression, psychological flexibility and quality of life.
Conclusion:
Findings implied that ACT may have promise in helping parents better to adjust to the difficulties in rearing children diagnosed with ASDs.
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Effect of cyclic meditation on quality of life and perceived stress in female adolescence
Sony Kumari, Sumitabha Ghosh
July-September 2015, 1(3):238-240
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:10.4103/2395-2296.158348
Aim:
Effect of cyclic meditation (CM) on quality of life (QOL) and perceive stress in female adolescence.
Materials
and
Methods:
This study was carried out in school students (58 adolescence girl). Participants age ranged from 14 to 17 years with a mean age of (mean ± standard deviation = 16.41 ± 0.56). All subjects were recruited from Bongo Sishu Balika Vidhalaya Bali Hawra (West Bengal) India. The variables (perceive stress scale and QOL enjoyment and satisfaction questionnaire) were assessed before the CM practices. All the student underwent CM practices daily for 30 min afternoon 3 pm to 3:30 pm, 5 days a week for 1-month under the guidance of a trainer yoga therapist. These CMs consisted of eight steps. The eight-step CM is the same, which is following in SVYASA Yoga University. After 30 days of intervention, the parameters were repeated.
Results:
The data analysis showed significant improvement in QOL (
P
< 0.05) and significant changes in perceive stress (
P
< 0.05) and there is no significant change in quality of satisfaction. The result shows significant value in both the variables month of CM one.
Conclusion:
These findings suggest that practice 1-month of CM showed that there is a significant impact on QOL and perceived stress in an adolescent girl.
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The effectiveness of emotional intelligence on job burnout mediated the self-efficacy among elementary teachers
Reza Barari, Laleh Jamshidi
July-September 2015, 1(3):212-220
DOI
:10.4103/2395-2296.158328
Aim:
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of emotional intelligence (EI) on job burnout among primary school teachers in Babol mediated the self-efficacy (S.E.).
Methods:
This was a descriptive correlational study clearly based on structural equation modeling (SEM). The participants of this study were 225 primary school teachers of public schools in Babol in academic year 2014 that were selected via cluster random sampling method. Participants completed Maslach and Jackson's job burnout inventory, teacher S.E. questionnaire (by Tschannen-Moran, Woolfolk,) and EI questionnaire (by Schutte,) by individual method and reliability and validity of these questionnaires was obtained.
Results:
Results of Pearson correlation showed that all EI, job burnout and S.E. components are mutually correlated with each other (
P
< 0.01).
Conclusion:
Implementing SEM with (partial least squares-SEM) for relationship between EI and job burnout through mediator variable S.E. tests, we found that the proposed model has a good fit and burnout is well explained by EI and S.E. Furthermore, all of the model path coefficients were significant.
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REVIEW ARTICLE
Social marketing, the key for dealing with social pathology especially alcohol and substance abuse
Rahele Samouei, Nahid Tavakoli, Mansoorehsadat Mirabdellahi, Alireza Jabbari
July-September 2015, 1(3):187-192
DOI
:10.4103/2395-2296.158324
Social marketing tries to affect the social behavior of the target audience in a way that is beneficial to the society and has wide use in international health programs such as dealing with alcohol and substance abuse. Therefore, the current study aimed to introduce a social marketing model developed for dealing with alcohol and substance abuse. This study uses review method by searching main keywords in credible scientific websites, books, research articles, scientific projects and dissertations. The main keywords included social marketing, social pathology, alcohol abuse and substance abuse, which were used separately and together. Main investigated websites included Web of Science, PubMed and Science direct websites. Afterwards the abstract and full texts of the gathered articles were investigated and unrelated articles were eliminated. The gathered data were then categorized and reported. Based on the results of this study, an effective strategy for dealing with alcohol and substance abuse needs to go through several stages, including product (including physical and virtual), cost (including the cost of methods used), place (the ways information can reach the audience), advertisement (notification methods), the availability of target audience, cooperation (by related people and organizations), political aspects (political fight against alcohol and substance abuse), public aspects (gathering humanitarian aids) and finally evaluation and implementation of the strategy. Selecting the behavior that needs to change, careful planning and cohesion of the aforementioned stages along with careful evaluation and implementation can help change undesirable behaviors and introduction of desirable ones. However, any strategy needs to change the attitude, awareness an behavior of the target audience in order to achieve the desirable results.
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ORIGINAL ARTICLES
The relationship between transformational leadership with organizational innovation
Fariba Karimi, Zohreh Morshedi
July-September 2015, 1(3):226-233
DOI
:10.4103/2395-2296.158343
Aim:
The current study was aimed at investigating the relationship between transformational leadership with organizational innovation in Islamic Azad University (Qom Branch) (IAUQB).
Methods:
To reach this, the descriptive correlational study was conducted. The population under study was consisted of all the 175 faculty members of IAUQB. Using simple random sampling, a number of 120 faculty members were selected as the sample population in the study. To collect data, the researcher used the questionnaires by Bass and Avoilo's transformational leadership, and Esmail's
et
al
., organizational innovation. The validity of the questionnaires was confirmed by the experts in the field. The reliability of the questionnaire was measured using Cronbach alpha. It showed that the reliability of transformational leadership was 0.83, and organizational innovation's reliability was 0.89. Data analysis was carried out using the statistical program package SPSS 19. To analyze the data, the researcher used the descriptive method of investigation as well as inferential methods (such as regression, Pearson correlation coefficient).
Result:
The results of the study showed that there was a relationship between organizational leadership and its variables by organizational innovation. The results of step-wise regression also proved that idealized influence was the best predictor of organizational innovation.
Discussion:
In analyzing organizational culture variables, it was shown that adaptability and mission is the best predictor for organizational innovation. MANOVA test results also showed that there was a significant difference between transformational leadership and organizational innovation. In comparing transformational leadership with organizational innovation, the point of difference was based on working experience and gender.
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Psychological aspects effectiveness mobile learning in higher education
Mojtaba Rezai Rad, Masoumeh Rezaei
July-September 2015, 1(3):199-206
DOI
:10.4103/2395-2296.158326
Suitable teaching method is considered as main base of qualification. Most educational psychologists and educational teachers believe that learning situation should be organized so that each student participates in activity in terms of his/her capabilities. Current instructional design models and methods were developed to design instruction for delivery on personal desktop computers that have large screens and are located in learners' homes or workplaces. However, there is a trend toward the use of mobile devices to deliver learning materials, and for students to learn anytime and anywhere. The use of mobile devices for learning has implications as to how learning materials are designed using learning theories and instructional design principles. The aim of the current research is psychological aspects effectiveness mobile learning in Higher Education. This study is done combines two specialized branches of education and information and communication technology, and library method. The results showed adding mobile learning to the traditional method of teaching effects on increasing achievement motivation, emotional experiences, self-concept, and students self-confidence.
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Designed to evaluate early maladaptive schemas in normal soldiers and addicted soldiers
Hajar Salehi, Mansour Ranjkesh, Zahra Salehi
July-September 2015, 1(3):193-198
DOI
:10.4103/2395-2296.158325
Aim:
The present research is designed to evaluate early maladaptive schemas in normal soldiers and addicted soldiers.
Methods:
The study used past-reviewing comparative. The population consists of all the soldiers who were randomly selected from among 122 soldiers (62 addicted and 60 normal soldiers). General Health Questionnaire (1979) was used for measuring the general health of normal soldiers and also Young Short Questionnaire (2005) for measuring addicted soldiers schemas. The data were analyzed by SPSS16 software and difference analysis statistical method.
Result:
There is a significant statistical difference between the two groups in all design. The schemas of abandonment/instability, defectiveness/shame, and dependence/incompetence were more important predictors for the risk of addiction.
Conclusions:
The primary maladaptive schemas among soldiers addicted to opium exist with more frequency. Knowing them better is beneficial for preventing and treating the problem.
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Job characteristic perception in medical record staff of training hospitals
Sakineh Saghaiyannejad, Sedighe Torki, Susan Bahrami, Elahe Khorasani
July-September 2015, 1(3):207-211
DOI
:10.4103/2395-2296.158327
Introduction:
Motivating human resources is one of paramount objectives in realizing the importance of an organization. Every job containing some specific characteristics can be motivating. Thus, by identifying characteristics of each job as well as job enrichment as an organizational interference planned, steps can be taken toward rebuilding the jobs aiming at making them challenging, motivating, and satisfying. The present study aimed to determine job characteristic perception mean in medical record staff of training hospitals in Isfahan in 2012.
Methods:
The type of the study is descriptive survey. The population includes all the medical record staff working in medical record departments in the training hospitals of Isfahan. One hundred twenty seven subjects were selected by conducting a census. Data collected by using questionnaire of job characteristics devised by Hackman and Oldeham. Content validity was confirmed by experts and its reliability was calculated through the coefficient of Cronbach's alpha (r1 = 0.84). The completed questionnaires were entered into SPSS (18) software; furthermore, statistical analysis was performed descriptively and inferentially (MANOVA, least significant difference).
Results:
Job characteristics scores mean and its elements (variety of skills, job identity, job significance, independence, and feedback) were higher than the average level. No significant difference was noticed among mean amounts of job characteristic perception according to age, gender, education, and type of educational degree in hospitals. However, there was a significant difference among mean amounts of job characteristic perception according to unit of service and years of service in hospitals.
Conclusion:
Findings show that all job characteristic aspects score was higher than average level and job significance perception score was higher than other aspects. As job characteristics have a great role in changing intrinsic motivation level in staff, it is suggested that different jobs in medical record department be devised in a way that staff, with intrinsic motivation and enthusiasm, step toward achieving job objectives and main goals of health system.
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