Background: This study investigated the effects of Islamic religious and breathing techniques with heart rate variability (HRV) biofeedback therapies on HRV and psycho-physiologic coherence (resonance frequency), depression and anxiety in coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) patients. Methods: Sixty CABG patients were chosen and randomly assigned to religious, breathing techniques and control groups. The experimental groups received 8 weeks of treatments; a 2-h session with home works in each week. The control group received only their normal hospital interventions. The groups' depression, anxiety, HRV and psychophysiologic coherence levels were assessed before and after the interventions by DASS-21 for depression and anxiety, and em-wave desktop software for HRV and psycho-physiologic coherence. The data were analyzed using ANCOVA with Bonferroni Comparison test and descriptive tests in SPSS software. Results: The findings showed that there were significant differences in psycho-physiologic coherence (HRV), depression and anxiety scores among the three groups in the post-tests. In fact, depression and anxiety were reduced more in the religious group, while psycho-physiologic coherence raised more in the breathing with the HRV feedback group. Conclusion: The results showed that both Islamic religious and breathing techniques with HRV biofeedback therapies can be used in rehabilitation programs for CABG patients in clinics and hospitals.

Abstract-This study investigated the effects of candidates' gender and familiarity with the interviewers on their language variation in oral interviews. For this variationist investigation, 60 university students comprising both males and females were randomly assigned to groups of familiar and unfamiliar with the interviewers. Then, they were interviewed using IELTS interview framework with some modifications .Three linguistic variants, i.e. "to be" contractions, /th/ pronunciations and the use of "he and she" interchangeably were extracted from the data and transcribed for the analysis. Then, they were analyzed using descriptive procedures through tests of frequencies in SPSS software. The results indicated that acquaintanceship with the interviewer might affect speech study of the subjects, the subjects with the unfamiliar interviewer trying to be more formal than the subject with the familiar interviewer .The findings also revealed that candidates' gender affected their use of the speech variants .In fact, the speech styles of males and females were significantly different with the females being more sensitive and conservative with their language behavior in the presence of an unfamiliar interviewer. We can claim that language variation among the candidates is affected by social factors like the sex of interviewees and their familiarity with the interviewers in L2 settings.

Background and Aims: Considering the increasing prevalence of dental services in the community and the impossibility of identifying each infected patient, hand sanitation is the most critical factor in controlling infection in these centers.Therefore, this study aimed to determine the effect of educational intervention on the hand health behavior of the staff of Tehran dentistry clinics based on the health belief model (HBM). Methods:In this quasi-experimental study in 2017, 128 employees of the health centers were selected through a multistage sampling method and they were placed in two groups of intervention and control (each 64 people). The data was collected using a questionnaire devised by the researcher. The validity and reliability of the questionnaire were determined. The questionnaire consisted of demographics, knowledge, structures of the HBM, and behavior variables. Then, the intervention was administered based on HBM-based education. Data were analyzed by SPSS16 and independent t test, χ 2 , and repeated measurement analysis of variance.Results: Before the intervention, the two intervention and control groups did not differ significantly in terms of demographic variables, mean scores of knowledge, constructs of HBM, and hand hygiene behavior (p > 0.05), while the intervention group was scored higher significantly compared to the control one after the intervention (p < 0.001). Conclusion:According to the findings, the HBM can be used as a framework for designing educational interventions to improve hand hygiene behavior to control infection in health centers.

Background The correct measurement of sexual health literacy requires an instrument with desirable psychometric properties and fitness to the sociocultural context. Despite acceptable psychometric properties of the sexual health literacy for adults questionnaire in the mixed population of men and women, the validity and reliability of this questionnaire in the female population were not determined. Therefore, considering differences in the study population, this study aimed to determine the structural validity and reliability of the questionnaire among women. Methods The present study was a methodological and psychometric study of instruments conducted among 310 women referring to healthcare centers in Qazvin, Iran in 2020. Sampling was done using a one-step cluster method. We used Cronbach's alpha coefficient, Pearson correlation coefficient, and confirmatory and exploratory factor analyses to determine the reliability, convergence validity, and construct validity of the questionnaire respectively. Also, the Sexual Quality of Life-Female questionnaire (SQOL-F) and the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI) were used to evaluate the convergence validity. Data were analyzed using SPSS 20, and STATA 13. Results Exploratory factor analysis identified three factors including, “reading and understanding”, “evaluation and application of information”, and “skills of access” which together accounted for 70.85% of the whole variance. Based on the results of confirmatory factor analysis, this questionnaire had overall goodness of fit too. (RMSEA = 0.071, CFI = 0.928, TLI = 0.919, SRMR = 0.041, X2/df = 2.501). Convergent validity of the questionnaire showed a correlation of 0.121–0.243 between the questionnaire's dimensions with the FSFI and the SQOL-F questionnaires respectively. Also, the results showed that the questionnaire had proper internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha was 0.981) for measuring sexual health literacy in women. Conclusions The 39-item sexual health literacy assessment questionnaire consisting of 3 factors in the present study was endowed with sufficient validity and reliability, and it can be used for precisely assessing women’s sexual health literacy.

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