Background & Aim: Delivery or childbirth is one of mothers' important life experiences, sometimes associated with problems. The present study aimed to compare postnatal attachment and general health in mothers who have had easy, preterm, and difficult labors. Materials & Methods: The present study was conducted through descriptive-analytical method and was of causative-comparative type. The study population consisted of all mothers who had referred to state medical centers in Tabriz. Accordingly, 180 mothers were selected, using convenience sampling, and were asked to complete Maternal Postnatal Attachment Scale (MPAS) and General Health Questionnaire (GHQ). Cronbach's alpha reliability and test-retest validity were 0.69 and 0.86, respectively. Data were analyzed using the SPSS software and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). Results: Findings showed that there was a significant difference between the three groups of easy, preterm, and difficult labors in postnatal attachment (F=32.3, P<0.001). Moreover, the results confirmed that there was a significant difference in general health between the three groups of easy, difficult, and preterm deliveries (F=59.7, P<0.001). Conclusion: Given the results of the present study, as well as previous studies, it can be concluded that having preterm and difficult deliveries have negative effect on mother-child relationship and mother's mental and physical health.
Introduction: Delivery or childbirth is one of mother's life experiences, which sometimes associated with problems. The present study aimed to compare maternal tension in mothers who had easy, difficult and preterm labors. Methods: In this comparative cross-sectional descriptive study, the population was all mothers referred to medical centers in Tabriz city during 2013-2014. Then,180 mothers were selected using the convenience sampling method and completed the parenting stress index. Data were analyzed using the one-way ANOVA by the SPSS software. Results: Results showed that there was a significant difference among the three groups (those with easy, difficult and preterm deliveries) in parenting stress (F = 60.3, P < 0.001), child stress (F = 140.83, P < 0.001), and parent-child stress (F = 131.2, P < 0.001). Conclusions: Considering to the results of the recent studies, it could be concluded that having preterm and difficult deliveries has a negative effect on mother-child relationship and also the experince of psychical labor affects mother's cognition.
Background: Cancer can change patients' physical appearance and thereby, threaten their psychological well-being. The current study aimed to evaluate the effects of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on the dysfunctional beliefs and the social appraisal of the patients with cancer and changes in physical appearance. Methods: It was a pretest-posttest controlled quasi-experimental study. A convenience sample of 40 patients with skin, breast, head and neck cancers was recruited from Shahid Ghazi Hospital, Tabriz, Iran. The patients had cancer-induced changes in physical appearance such as severe hair and eyebrow loss, mastectomy and skin lesions. They were randomly allocated to the experimental (20 patients) and the control groups (20 patients). Patients in the experimental group received mindfulness-based educations in eight 1.5-hour sessions held twice a week in four consecutive weeks while patients in the control group received no education. Before and one week after the study intervention, patients in both study groups completed the Jone irrational belief test and the social appraisal subscale of the self-talk scale. The data were analyzed by the SPSS ver. 16.0 and through conducting the independent-and the paired-sample T-tests and the multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) at the significance level of 0.05. Results: Study findings revealed that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy significantly improved the participating patients' demand for approval, high self-expectation, blame proneness, frustration reactive, emotional irresponsibility, anxious over-concern, problem avoidance, perfectionism, social appraisal (P < 0.001), dependency and helplessness for change (P < 0.05). Conclusions: Mindfulness education is recommended to correct dysfunctional beliefs and improve social appraisal of patients with cancer and changes in physical appearance.
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