Publications by authors named "Mohammadreza Seirafi"

Background: Hypertension is a prevalent medical condition associated with cardiovascular and kidney diseases, leading to premature death and disability. Despite medication use, hypertension continues to rise due to unhealthy lifestyles. Self-care strategies play crucial roles in effectively treating hypertension.

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Background: Obesity causes many physical and mental illnesses. This study compares mindfulness-based eating awareness training (MB-EAT) versus MB-EAT plus implementation intention model for effectiveness on body mass index (BMI), weight self-efficacy, and physical activity in obese women with BMIs ≤ 25 (n = 52).

Methods: In this randomized clinical trial, the participants were selected by the simple random sampling method and randomly divided into three groups.

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Background: Mindfulness-based interventions have shown to be efficient in managing chronic pain. Cognitive factors play a prominent role in chronic pain complications and negative cognitive contents about pain are often the first issues targeted in cognitive-based therapies, which are known as first-line treatment of chronic pain over the past decades. Little, however, is known about the manner of thinking about pain or pain-related cognitive processing.

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Background: Primary headaches are one of the most troubled chronic diseases. Headaches interfere within the various dimensions of the patient's life. Coping strategies that aim to be attention focused (e.

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Background: Primary headaches are the most common cause of absence from work and school and one of the most common reasons for referring to the neurologists.

Objectives: The present study was designed to investigate the relationship of cognitive processing style and mindfulness with pain intensity and the ultimate aim was to provide the role of pain-related cognitive processes and mindfulness in the prediction of headache intensity.

Methods: The study was conducted descriptively by using the correlation method.

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