Valiollah Kashani; Mansoureh Mokaberian; Behroz Gol Mohamadi; Mohammadreza Salmanzade
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The aim of this study was to determinate the validity and reliability of the Persian version of the Brief-BES Test in the elderly. The final version of the Brief-BES Test in the elderly was retranslated and developed based on the viewpoints of experts in elderly studies. 100 elderly men and women were ...
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The aim of this study was to determinate the validity and reliability of the Persian version of the Brief-BES Test in the elderly. The final version of the Brief-BES Test in the elderly was retranslated and developed based on the viewpoints of experts in elderly studies. 100 elderly men and women were voluntarily selected from Hakim Elahi nursing home in Semnan city. The data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics: confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and Cronbach’s alpha coefficient to examine factorial and construct validity and internal consistency respectively. Findings indicated good fit of the factor analysis model over the Persian version of the Brief-BES Test in the elderly. In addition, the results of Cronbach’s alpha coefficient demonstrated the acceptable internal consistency of this tool. Proper translation and selecting a heterogeneous sample may have contributed to the good fit of the factor analysis model.
Mansoureh Mokaberian; Shamsollah Nooripour
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Reflexes are body automatic and involuntary responses to a variety of stimuli such as pressure, sound and tactile stimulation which are used as means to determine the level of neurological maturation and to diagnose central nervous system disorders. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect ...
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Reflexes are body automatic and involuntary responses to a variety of stimuli such as pressure, sound and tactile stimulation which are used as means to determine the level of neurological maturation and to diagnose central nervous system disorders. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of mothers’ tactile kinetic stimulations on reflex state of preterm neonates. For this purpose, 40 infants and mothers were purposively selected from infants hospitalized in neonatal ward of Amiralmomenin hospital in Semnan city during one to two months and were randomly divided into experimental and control groups. Then, mothers of experimental group conducted tactile kinetic stimulations on their infants until the completion of fetal period (40 weeks of gestation) 3 times a day, 20 minutes each time whereas the control group received only the usual care. Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale was used to evaluate reflex state of neonates before and after the intervention. The results of mixed ANOVA showed that although reflexes of premature neonates in the experimental group improved more than the control group, this increase was not significant (P≥0.05). However, given these results, it can be said that tactile kinetic stimulations can be a solution to improve the reflex state of preterm neonates and more time frame is probably required to reveal the beneficial effects of intervention.
Mansoure Mokaberyan; Somayeh NamdarTajari
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Aim: One of the issues that have been considered more than before is the issue of aging. An aging is a period that is accompanied by gradual, progressive and spontaneous erosion changes in most physiological devices and functions of the body. One of the widespread problems that occur in the aging process ...
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Aim: One of the issues that have been considered more than before is the issue of aging. An aging is a period that is accompanied by gradual, progressive and spontaneous erosion changes in most physiological devices and functions of the body. One of the widespread problems that occur in the aging process is the loss of balance, increased fluctuations and the risk of falling. Falling down is one of the most common and most serious problems are aging. For this reason, today, many researchers have drawn attention to the various ways in which elderly people develop their balance. Recently, some researchers have found that the use of cognitive strategies such as self-talk can improve the performance of motor tasks. Self-talk, essentially has two main instructional and motivational functions. Motivational self-talk through increased self-confidence and instructional self-talk by enhancing focus on techniques improve their sports performance and learning skills. On the one hand, it is important to increase the effectiveness of the instructions in order to focus on the focus. Wolfe's researches (1998-1992), given the constrained action hypothesis in most sports skills as well as balance skills, suggest that the use of external attention in comparison with internal attention during the skill leads to better performance and learning. Several studies have been conducted on motivational and instructional self-talk about different athletic skills and different skill levels that have led to a variety of outcomes, but few studies have considered the scope of balance. So, the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of attentional focus types as the self-talk form on static and dynamic balance in elderly women using instructional self-talk focus strategy. Methodology: The present study was a quasi-experimental study with pre-test and post-test. The experimental group included instructional self-talk with internal focus and instructional self-talk with external attention as well as a control group. The population of the study consisted of all elderly women living in the nursing home in Qazvin who 45 people (66.75 ± 5.65 years) were selected according to the inclusion criteria. Inclusion criteria included Lack of movement restrictions, non-fracture in the lower extremities in the past year and the lack of use of neurological drugs. After the pre-test they were randomly assigned to groups. The control group without self-talk, self-talk group with internal focus and self-talk group with external focus practice their balance skills during the five sessions. At the end of the fifth session, the post- test was conducted using static balance (stork) and dynamic balance (timed up and go) tests. In the stork test, the subject must stand on top of his leg, lift the other leg and stick to the knee of the leg, and simultaneously place his hands on the iliac crest of the pelvis. The time that a person could stand open with his eyes was considered as an indicator of his static balance ability. Each subject performed the test three times and the highest time was recorded. The errors that caused the test to be stopped include lifting the hands from iliac crest of the pelvis, detaching the leg from the knee of the foot and any movement on the foot of the reliance.Each subject performed a three-time test of timed up and go, and his best time was recorded. Since the subject was announcing his stand, the timer began to work, and the timer stopped when it hit the subject back with chair. The self-talk group with the instruction of focus of the internal attention, repeated the words "knee and foot" before each loud performance, which meant "bending slightly knees and maintaining the balance on the foot", and the external attention group referred to the term "target and wall" Which meant "looking at the target mounted on the wall.Results: One-way ANOVA, mixed ANOVA and repeated measure ANOVA were used to analyze the data. Data was analyzed using SPSS software version 20. The significance level was considered 0.05. The results showed that both self-talk groups performed significantly better than the control group in static balance.Conclusion: However Self-talk interferences with both types of attentional focus; it was not a significant difference in the dynamic balance of elderly people (P≥0.05). Taking the results into consideration it can be concluded that, self-talk with internal and external focus instructions can be considered as a cognitive strategy to improve the static balance of elderly people.
Vali Ollah Kashani; Mansoureh Mokaberian; Elahe Mostafaifar
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Mindfulness is a cognitive process during which the mindful persons focus their attention to experience feelings and incidents happening in the present moment within or around themselves. The aim of this study was to determine validity and reliability of the Persian version of Mindfulness Inventory ...
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Mindfulness is a cognitive process during which the mindful persons focus their attention to experience feelings and incidents happening in the present moment within or around themselves. The aim of this study was to determine validity and reliability of the Persian version of Mindfulness Inventory for Sport. For this purpose, 150 athletes with different levels of skills in 7 sport fields, individual and team, were selected by cluster random sampling method and completed the Persian version of this inventory. The method of the research was as follows: firstly, using translation-back translation method, translate accuracy of the Persian version of this inventory was confirmed. Confirmatory factor analysis based on structural equation modeling was used to determine construct validity of this Persian version. Cronbach alpha coefficient was used to determine internal consistency and intra-class correlation coefficient under test-retest method was used to study temporal reliability of items. The results showed that first-order (RMSEA=0.042, CFI=0.97 and TLI=0.96) and second-order (RMSEA=0.042, CFI=0.97 and TLI=0.96) confirmatory factor analyses, Cronbach alpha coefficients (ɑ=0.79) and intra-class correlation (0.85) of the Persian version of Mindfulness Inventory for Sport supported 3-factor and 15-item structure of this inventory and confirmed validity and reliability of this inventory.
Mansoureh Mokaberian; Valiollah Kashani; Kobra Kashani; Somayeh Namdar Tajari
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This study attempted to evaluate the effect of engagement with physical activityon happiness of elderly men and women in Tehran city. The study populationincluded all the elderly in 22 regions of Tehran city and 400 subjects were selectedby multistage cluster sampling method as the sample of the study. ...
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This study attempted to evaluate the effect of engagement with physical activityon happiness of elderly men and women in Tehran city. The study populationincluded all the elderly in 22 regions of Tehran city and 400 subjects were selectedby multistage cluster sampling method as the sample of the study. To discriminateactive from inactive elderly subjects, Sharkey Physical Activity Questionnaire andto determine the amount of their happiness, Oxford Happiness Inventory (OHI)was used. The reliability and validity of the questionnaires were confirmed. Allparticipants were more than 60 years old and had no psychological and physicaldisorders. After the questionnaires had been distributed and then collected and theraw data had been classified, SPSS13 software was used to analyze the data. Theresults of MANOVA at (P<0.0071) showed that active subjects significantly gainedhigher scores in all the happiness subscales such as life satisfaction, joy, selfesteem,control, efficiency, calmness and totally happiness than inactive subjectswhile gender and interaction of gender and activity level did not have anysignificant effect on happiness. Therefore, it can be stated that one of the factorsinfluencing happiness in the elderly is physical activity.
