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Volume 16, Issue 3 (11-2020)
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Background: Mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) face significant pressures and challenges that may expose them to different psychological problems and can lead to their greater propensity to use of aggressive behaviors and less use of health services and programs offered to these children. This has a negative impact on the child's development and leads to more disruptive behaviors. Therefore, the present research studies the relationship between depression, anxiety, and stress with social support and life satisfaction in mothers of children with ASD.
Methods: In this cross-sectional descriptive-analytical study, 47 mothers of children with ASD were selected by convenience sampling and completed the questionnaires of anxiety, depression, stress, social support, and life satisfaction.
Findings: Pearson correlation coefficient showed that there was no relationship between life satisfaction score with depression, anxiety, and stress scores (P > 0.05) and there was a significant negative relationship between social support score with depression (P = 0.020), anxiety (P = 0.040), and stress (P = 0.020) scores. Moreover, there was a direct relationship between life satisfaction score and social support (P = 0.010, r = 0.323).
Conclusion: Increase of social support for mothers of children with ASD leads to their increased life satisfaction and decreased depression, anxiety, and stress. Improving the social support of these mothers seems necessary.

Mohammad Taghi Badeleh-Shamooshaki , Hajar Salehi-Yansari, Elaheh Sadeghi, Abdolrahman Charakzi,
Volume 17, Issue 1 (4-2021)
Abstract

Background: The aim of this pre-experimental study with control group was to assess the effect of group mindfulness-based cognitive counselling on life satisfaction of the elder women referring to a Senior Adult Day Care Center in Gorgan, Iran.
Methods: The study population of this quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design was the older women referring to a Senior Adult Day Care Center in Gorgan, Iran. In order to select the study sample, the life satisfaction of 142 old women over 60 years was evaluated and the ones with the lowest life satisfaction (n = 50) were selected and finally 40 women randomly divided into equal groups of intervention and control. The instruments were a demographic data sheet and the life satisfaction questionnaire compiled by Neugarten BJ and Havighurst RJ. The intervention was eight sessions of group mindfulness-based cognitive counselling. The data was analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics using SPSS Software.
Findings: The results showed that the mean of life satisfaction between the pretest (9.16) and posttest (14.09) stages in the intervention group was significantly different (P ≤ 0.0001) while it was not the case for the control group.
Conclusion: Thus, in addition to enough medical and welfare facilities, we recommend holding group mindfulness-based cognitive counselling workshop to prevent elder women from rumination and finally to improve their life satisfaction.


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