Mansour Fathi; Leila Abdolmaleki; Sara Makki Alamdari; Seyed Hossein Mohaqeqi
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Objective: Women living with HIV (WLWH) experience various psychosocial challenges, which negatively affecttheir quality of life (QOL). The current study examines the outcomes of women living with HIV (WLWH), whoreceive cognitive behavioral group therapy (CBGT) for improving quality of life in Tehran, ...
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Objective: Women living with HIV (WLWH) experience various psychosocial challenges, which negatively affecttheir quality of life (QOL). The current study examines the outcomes of women living with HIV (WLWH), whoreceive cognitive behavioral group therapy (CBGT) for improving quality of life in Tehran, Iran.Method: The design of the study is a randomized clinical trial (RCT). Sixty women with HIV were randomly assignedinto control and intervention groups, with 30 participants for each group. A 10-session cognitive behavioral grouptherapy was provided only to the intervention group. The control group participated in 3 sessions without specialtraining. To assess the effectiveness of the intervention, quality of life was measured using the MultidimensionalQuality of Life Questionnaire for HIV/AIDS (MQoL-HIV) before and one month after intervention delivery. Pre-testand post-tests were compared using t-test analysis.Results: After 10 weeks of training, the Mean±SD QOL score significantly increased in the intervention group. Basedon covariance analysis, the intervention group had a significantly higher QOL score than the control group after theintervention P<0.05.Conclusion: Due to the low quality of life among WLWH, CBGT can be helpful in providing psychologicalrehabilitation to improve the quality of life of this group.
saade malekasgar; Mohammad Ali Mazaheri; Ladan Fata; Fereshte Mootabi; mahmood heidari
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Objective: Extramarita relations are among the main problems in the relationships of married couples that can resultin psychological disorders, tensions between couples, and even physical problems in people involved. The risk ofcontracting sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS, is high among ...
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Objective: Extramarita relations are among the main problems in the relationships of married couples that can resultin psychological disorders, tensions between couples, and even physical problems in people involved. The risk ofcontracting sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS, is high among the people who have extramaritalrelations. A large number of studies have addressed this issue, but there is no consistency in the results, and no researchhas reviewed them systematically. This study aims to depict a comprehensive image of the relationship betweenextramarital relationships and contracting HIV/AIDS.Method: This systematic review will be conducted using Pubmed, PsycINFO, MEDLINE, EMBASE, Scopus, ProQuest,Web of Science, and Google Scholar, as well as the grey literature with no restriction regarding the language. All types ofstudies investigated the relationship between extramarital relations and HIV/AIDS will be included. The population of thestudy will be considered the people more than 18 years old with extramarital relationships in their lives at the time of researchor before. Two independent reviewers will perform the study selection and data extraction. The assessment of the risk of bias will be implemented using the JBI Critical Appraisal Checklist. Publication bias will be assessed by funnel plots, Begg’s, and Egger’s tests. Heterogeneity will be evaluated using the I2 statistic and the χ2 test. Also, we will conduct subgroup analyses for the population and all Meta-analyses will be performed using Stata V.13 software.Conclusion: The findings will revealed a comprehensive picture of the relation between extramarital relationshipsand HIV/AIDS that can improve policy decisions, leading to a reduction and providing improved special services forindividuals, couples, and families, and society who faced this problem.
