Introduction: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between personality traits and psychological well-being in people with irritable bowel syndrome with mediating role of emotional regulation. Methods: Research method according to the applied purpose, and the data collection method was a descriptive correlation and a quantitative data type. The statistical population of this study was all the patients with irritable bowel syndrome referring to Danesh Gastrointestinal Clinic in Tehran in 1396. The sample size was 390 participants selected by calculate sample size in structural equations and using a sample purposive sampling method. In order to measure the variables, personality traits Neo Costa & McGary (1992), Psychological well-being Ryff (1989), and of emotional regulation Gross and John (2003) questionnaires were used. Evaluation of the proposed model was done using structural equation modeling and SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL; Version 18 as well as Amos. The reliability, convergent validity and divergent validity of the questionnaire, were investigated.  Moreover, path coefficients and software significance coefficients were used to examine the research hypotheses. Results: The results showed that the degree of appropriateness of the proposed model was appropriate to the components of the research; personality traits and psychological well-being were found to be correlated with the role of mediator of emotional regulation in the patients with irritable bowel syndrome (p <0.0001). Conclusion: This research confirms the relationship between personality traits and psychological well-being with the mediating role of emotional regulation in people with irritable bowel syndrome. Because of Numerous scientific evidence in the ontology of this syndrome, further study on emotional skills and related problems in people with irritable bowel syndrome are required.

Background:During the recent decades, there have been two major leaps in treatment of depression using the medication to pacify and relieve depression signs and behavior cognitive therapy. The available evidences emphasize the treatment success with some group training methods including stress management, cognitive group therapy, and eye movement desensitization in reducing depression. Objectives: The present study aimed to compare the effectiveness of these methods on reducing depression in patients with spinal cord injuries. Patients and Methods:In a quasi-experimental project, 60 patients with spinal cord injuries were recruited and randomly allocated to one of the following treatment groups: stress management, cognitive group therapy, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, and no cognitive treatment groups. Depression status and severity was determined using Beck depression inventory. Results: Although baseline depression state was comparable across the study groups, following training, the mean depression score in the groups received eye movement desensitization (14.60 ± 3.15) and stress management (22.66 ± 3.37) were significantly lower than in cognitive group therapy (27.33 ± 4.15) or in no cognitive treatment groups (32.13 ± 1.80) (P < 0.001). Between-group covariate analysis showed superiority of eye movement desensitization method on other treatment methods including stress management and cognitive group therapy (P < 0.001). Conclusions: Our study showed higher effectiveness of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing methods compared with stress management and cognitive group therapy in reducing depression severity in patients with spinal cord injuries. Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education:As there had been no study focusing on effectiveness of the cognitive therapy, stress management, and desensitization through eye movement reprocessing on depression, this study aimed to compare the effect of these three methods of cognitive therapy on depression severity in patients with spinal cord injuries.

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Background: Treatment for psychological disorders is generally based on signs and symptoms, and research in this area has shown that major depression has become one of the most significant psychiatric disorders of the last decade. Objectives: This study was conducted to compare the effects of schema therapy and cognitive group therapy on women with depression who were engaging in high-risk sexual behaviors and were referred to the Hamadan Health Center for AIDS testing. Patients and Methods:This research was done at the Hamadan shohada infirmary from 2015 to 2016 and was confirmed by the ethics committee of Hamadan University of Medical Sciences. It was a semi-experimental study using single stage cluster sampling. The statistical sample consisted of 500 women ranging in age from 20 to 60 years old with at least a diploma. The women were engaging in high-risk sexual behaviors and were referred to the health center for AIDS testing. Psychologists and a physician conducted a diagnostic interview, and 217 subjects were randomly chosen using a sample volume formula, in addition to Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS). Eighty five of the subjects were diagnosed with depression, of whom 45 were chosen randomly and divided into three groups of 15 consisting of two experimental groups and one control group. Twelve sessions of cognitive group therapy and 12 sessions of schema therapy were implemented for 90 minutes per session. At the end of the training period, the three groups were post-tested and depression components were then investigated in the pretest and post-test results. Results: The findings support the idea that a significant difference exists in terms of the mean of depression between schema therapy and cognitive therapy, as follows: F (1, 41) = 60.650 P < 0.01. Conclusions:The results show that schema therapy is more effective than cognitive group therapy for treating depression in women engaging in high-risk sexual behaviors.