Publications by authors named "Shakiba Zahed"
Background: This study examined the impacts of an educational intervention based on the Progressively Lowered Stress Threshold (PLST) extended model on caregiving for people with dementia (PWD).
Method: This study was conducted in Isfahan, Iran, from May 2016 to June 2018, with 38 caregivers of PWD as participants assigned to an intervention group. Data were collected using a multi-sectional, researcher-developed questionnaire that recorded the demographic characteristics, and measured the dementia-related knowledge and caregiving practices of the participants.
Background: Natural disasters always have significant effects on social infrastructures, living conditions, and health care systems. This study aims to explain the needs of victims in the west of Iran for primary health care services.
Materials And Methods: This thematic content analysis and qualitative study was done from September 2020 to June 2021 in the west of Iran.
Background: Caregiver stress is harmful to the health of both caregivers and people living with Alzheimer's disease or other dementias. The present study was conducted to assess stress and its predictors of people living with Alzheimer's disease or other dementias' caregivers.
Methods: The present descriptive, analytical, cross-sectional study was conducted in December 2017-June 2018 in Isfahan, Iran.
Article Synopsis
- - This study focuses on understanding what motivates caregivers of people with dementia (PWD) in Isfahan, Iran, emphasizing the importance of these motivations for providing optimal care.
- - Through interviews with 19 caregivers, researchers identified four main types of psychological motives: moral, religious/spiritual, financial, and “wicked” motives, highlighting a mix of ethical and self-interested reasons.
- - The findings suggest that addressing these motivations can improve caregivers' experiences and the overall quality of care for PWD, indicating that support from family and community can play a crucial role.
Background: Diabetes is one of the most common metabolic disorders which are rapidly increasing. Distance training is a cost-effective, easy and accessible way in which time and place dimensions of communication are removed.
Objective: To determine the effects of mobile text messages on raising knowledge of men with type 2 diabetes.
Background: Understanding the metabolic syndrome has been the center of attention in recent years as a major risk factor of many diseases. Given the rising incidence of this disease and as the patient can compete against this disease with choosing healthy lifestyle, in the present study, we investigated the predictors of metabolic syndrome, based on Walker's health-promoting lifestyle in two large cities in Iran, in 2016.
Methods: This cross-sectional study used two-stage cluster sampling to select 1128 patients, among patients who referred to health centers in Isfahan and Yazd.
Background: The objective of this randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study was to evaluate the efficacy of sustained-release methylphenidate (MPH-SR) in treatment of methamphetamine dependence.
Methods: Fifty-six individuals who met DSM-IV-TR criteria for methamphetamine dependence participated in this 10-week trial. The participants were randomly allocated into two groups and received 18 to 54 mg/day sustained-released methylphenidate or placebo for 10 weeks.