Comparison of the effectiveness of training of reality and spirituality on psychological well-being among students

The current research was conducted with the aim of comparing the effectiveness of training of reality and the spirituality on promoting psychological well-being in students. The method of this research was semi-experimental with experimental and control groups. In this study 45 university students were selected by sampling method as sample size and then the participants were randomly divided into three groups (two experimental and one control groups) which each group had 15 participants. A test group received nine 90-minute sessions of group-based reality training; the second group received nine sessions of two-hour spirituality training in group way, but the control group did not receive any intervention. Ryff's Psychological Well-Being Scales was used to collect information. The results showed that spiritual education has a higher effect on the education of reality in promoting the level of psychological well-being in students. Thus, it can be concluded that reality is influential in promoting the psychological well-being of the students and also the spiritual education and reality education significantly affect the level of psychological well-being in students, but spirituality is more effective than reality

Psychological interventions for coronary heart disease

A meta-analysis was conducted on 35 trials involving 10,703 individuals who had experienced a myocardial infarction and were randomised to an intervention involving some form of psychological therapy. Ten of these studies involved individuals with confirmed psychiatric diagnoses. Moderate quality evidence found no reduction of risk for total mortality or revascularisation procedures in comparison to usual care. Low quality evidence found no risk reduction for non-fatal MI although there was a 21% reduction in cardiac mortality. There was also some evidence of benefit on measures of psychological morbidity including anxiety, depression, and stress. It is concluded that psychological interventions may reduce cardiac mortality, although stronger evidence is required before this can be definitively concluded. It is also not clear who benefits most from psychological interventions

Effectiveness of Anger Management and Relaxation Training On Decreasing Anxiety, Depression and Anger among Heart Disease Patients after Bypass Surgery

he aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of anger management and relaxation skills training on decreasing of anxiety, depression and anger among heart patients after bypass surgery. In this quasi- experimental design, 40 coronary heart patients aged 35-65 years, having first bypass, were selected and randomly assigned to experiment and control groups. To measurement of variables, Beck anxiety and Beck depression Inventories and Anger Scale of MMPI-2 were used. Data were analyzed using the one way analysis of covariance. The findings revealed that skills training schedule of anger management and relaxation significantly decreased anxiety (p<0/001), depression (p<0/001) and anger (p<0/001) among patients. Regarding the effectiveness of training of anger management and relaxation on decreasing of negative emotions among patients, manipulating this method seems essential in all stages of prevention and treatment of coronary heart disease