Mina Mazaheri

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• Article: Comparison between the effect of liothyronine and piracetam on personal information, orientation and mental control in patients under treatment with ECT.

  Mousavi Seyed Ghafur, Mohammad Saadat, Mohamad Reza Maraci, Reza S Bagherian, Mina Mazaheri
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  ABSTRACT: The study aimed to compare the effect of liothyronine and piracetam on three subscales of the Wechsler memory test on patients under treatment with ECT. In a double blind clinical trial, 60 of 99 patients between 20 and 45 years old, under treatment with ECT were studied in three groups. Patients in the allocation groups received liothyronine, piracetam, or placebo, from the first session of ECT until 1 month after the last session of ECT. Personal information, orientation, and mental control were tested in the participants at first, fourth, and last session of ECT and 1 month after the last session of ECT. Data were analyzed with Repeated measure ANOVA using SPSS 13. There wasn't any significant difference among three groups in demographic characteristics before the study and number of ECT sessions (P=0.684). After intervention, a significant difference in memory scores was seen in third and fourth assessment sessions (0.002). Orientation subscales showed a significant difference among four assessment sessions (P=0.001). Personal information and mental control never decreased in the liothyronine group. There was no significant difference among three studied groups in personal information, orientation, and mental control (P>0.05). Memory changes due to ECT may be limited to some parts of memory like orientation. More powerful studies for comparison between the effect of liothyronine and placebo are necessary.
  Indian Journal of Psychiatry 04/2012; 54(2):154-8.
• Article: Alexithymia and functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGID).

  Mina Mazaheri, Hamid Afshar, Stephan Weinland, Narges Mohammadi, Peyman Adibi
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  ABSTRACT: NTRODUCTION: The purpose of this study was to examine alexithymia symptoms, demographic variables and the severity of gastrointestinal symptoms in a sample of patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGID) and a comparative sample of healthy controls. The sample consisted of 237 individuals, 129 of whom were patients diagnosed with FGIDs. The patients referred to the psychosomatic disorders clinic_of Nour Hospital, Isfahan, Iran. The controlled group included 108 healthy individuals (without digestive diagnosis) matched with the patients by age, gender, marital and educational status. The Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) and the Gastrointestinal Symptoms Rating Scale (GSRS) were used to collect data. Data was analyzed using multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA), correlation coefficients and Fisher's z. There was a significant difference between patients with FGIDs and healthy controls in terms of number of alexithymia symptoms and severity of gastrointestinal symptoms. The results also indicated the existence of a relationship between educational level and alexithymia as well as its dimensions (difficulty identifying feelings and difficulty describing feelings) in both groups. However, no significant differences were found between the two groups in this regard. The findings of this study indicated that compared to the healthy control group, patients with FGIDs had higher scores of alexithymia and more severe somatic symptoms. Furthermore, higher educational levels were associated with decreased risk of alexithymia. Such finding might be due to higher ability to describe and identify emotions in patients with higher levels of education.
  Medical Archives 01/2012; 66(1):28-32.
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  Article: Experiences of patients with multiple sclerosis from group counseling.

  Mina Mazaheri, Nasrin Fanian, Ali Zargham-Boroujeni
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  ABSTRACT: Group counseling is one of the most important methods in somatic and psychological rehabilitation of the multiple sclerosis (M.S.) patients. Knowing these patients' experiences, feelings, believes and emotion based on learning in group is necessary to indicate the importance of group discussion on quality of life of the patients. This study was done to achieve experiences of M.S. patients from group training. This was a qualitative study using phenomenological method. The samples were selected using purposeful sampling. Ten patients from M.S. society who had passed group training were included in the study. The group training was done through seven sessions weekly and voluntarily. The participants were interviewed using in-depth interview. The average time of each interview was between 30-50 minutes which has been recorded digitally and moved to a compact disc to transcribe and analysis. The data analyzed using 7-step Colaizzi method. The data were transformed into 158 codes, 12 sub-concepts and 4 main concepts including emotional consequences, communication, quality of life and needs. M.S can lead to multiple problems in patients such as somatic, behavioral, emotional and social disorders. Group psychotherapy is one of the methods which can decrease these problems and improve rehabilitation of the patients. Group discussion helps patients to overcome adverse feelings, behaviors and thoughts and guides them to move in a meaningful life. It also can improve quality of life and mental health of the patients.
  Iranian journal of nursing and midwifery research 01/2011; 16(2):181-90.