Background and Objectives: Coronavirus syndrome has now become a global challenge. Meanwhile, nurses are under great psychological pressure due to their presence in the front line of treatment. Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate psychological disorders in nurses facing patients with Covid-19 in 2020. Methods In this cross-sectional descriptive study, 275 nurses working in hospitals receiving infected covid-19 patients were randomly assigned to complete the study and completed the demographic checklist and PTSD and Depression and Anxiety Questionnaires (DASS-21). Results The Mean±SD and standard deviation of post-traumatic stress disorder in the present study was 17.46±5.42 and 23.5% of the subjects had post-traumatic stress disorder. Also, the Mean±SD of depression was 14.83±4.59. The Mean±SD of their anxiety was 13.72±4.38. Conclusion According to the results of the present study, married people with children and the elderly are more exposed to psychological damage caused by coronavirus and increasing work experience was recognized as a protective factor against anxiety and stress.
Introduction: Women suffering from Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) tend to have negative attitudes towards their own psychological changes. Negative attitudes and inappropriate adaptive reactions may bring about physiological consequences. Objective: This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of counseling with cognitivebehavioural approach on reducing PMS depression and psychological-physiological symptoms. Methods: The research method was quasi experimental with pre test-post test design and control group. A sample of 34 women was selected by available sampling method as the statistical sample and was randomly assigned into two groups named control and intervention. Hypothesises were tested by co-variance analysis. Result: Results indicated that the post-test values have been affected by the independent variable (F=113.24, P< 0.05). Conclusions: The results of study showed that cognitive-behavioural therapy had positive effects on PMS depression and psychological-physiological symptoms of female staff of Science and Industry University reducing their complications.
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