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.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: 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.
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.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: 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.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: 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.