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BACKGROUND: Since in most families, mothers are more responsible for taking care of children and they have more responsibility than fathers for monitoring the child; taking care of a disabled child can have a more negative effect on the psychological state of mothers. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the effectiveness of behavioral activation therapy (BAT) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) on depression and rumination on mothers with children with cerebral palsy in the city of Ilam. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The design of this research was pretest and post-test quasi-experimental with a control group. The research sample was 60 mothers who referred to occupational therapy centers in the city of Ilam in 2022, who were randomly divided into two experimental groups (N = 40 for each) and a control group (N = 20). One of the experimental groups, received behavioral activation group therapy method; and the other received the group therapy method based on acceptance and commitment for eight sessions lasted for 90 minutes in week. Data were collected using the Beck depression questionnaire (BDI-II) and the rumination questionnaire in two stages before the intervention and after the intervention. In this research, covariance analysis was used for data analysis. RESULTS: The results of covariance analysis showed that behavioral activation therapy and acceptance and commitment-based therapy reduced depression (P < 0.01) and rumination (P < 0.01), and the two experimental groups were compared with the control group in the post-test phase. CONCLUSION: It seems that behavioral activation therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy are effective in reducing depression and rumination in the subjects of the present study. Therefore, these treatments are suggested as complementary treatments along with drug treatments to improve psychological symptoms.
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BACKGROUND: Difficulty with reading fluency has been increasingly acknowledged as a significant aspect of reading disabilities which is called dyslexia. To investigate this important issue, this research aims to examine the impact of an intervention program on reading fluency of dyslexic students. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The research is an experimental one. The population of the study included all the second- and third-grade male and female students in the city of Ilam, Iran, among whom 68 students were recognized to be dyslexic using a screening inventory reading test (IRT) developed by Shafiei et al., in 2009, they were selected using purposeful sampling method. The students were equally divided and assigned into a control and an experimental group. The experimental group received the Barton intervention program for 10 weeks. The reading fluency test was administered for the measurement of reading fluency in pre- and post-tests. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and paired t-test. RESULTS: The analysis of the finding through t-test found a statistically significant difference between the control and experimental groups after the intervention program at P < 0.01. CONCLUSIONS: The results revealed that the students who received the intervention program of the experimental group were improved in terms of their reading fluency.
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BACKGROUND: Marital satisfaction, conscientiousness, and self-compassion are necessary for successful and lasting marriages. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between marital satisfaction, conscientiousness, and self-compassion among married employees of Shahid Mostafa Khomeini Hospital in the city of Ilam in 2017. METHODOLOGY: This study is a descriptive research with a correlation design. The research population included all 260 married employees of Mostafa Khomeini (I) Hospital in the city of Ilam, among which 150 were selected using simple random sampling. Data were collected using three questionnaires of conscientiousness, self-compassions, and marital satisfaction. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation and multivariate regression. RESULTS: The research results revealed a positive and significant relationship between conscientiousness and marital satisfaction (P = 0.028 and r = 0.187) and a positive and significant relationship between self-compassion and marital satisfaction (P = 0.000 and r = 0.185). Both conscientiousness and self-compassion variables could predict 51% of the variance of marital satisfaction among married employees. CONCLUSIONS: Given the research results, it could be stated that people who have self-compassion and have a high level of conscientiousness make much effort for their improvement and resolving their committed mistakes. For this reason, they have high motivation to maintain marital relationships.
