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This study examined the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy on social anxiety and blood sugar control in children with type I diabetes Mellitus. For this purpose, 38 children affected by diabetes Mellitus type 1, living in Tehran, were selected randomly and were divided into the experiment ...
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This study examined the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy on social anxiety and blood sugar control in children with type I diabetes Mellitus. For this purpose, 38 children affected by diabetes Mellitus type 1, living in Tehran, were selected randomly and were divided into the experiment group (n = 19) and control group (n = 19). In this investigation, clinical trial method of pre-test and post-test types with control group was used. The measuring tools included the Children Symptom Inventory, Parent Form (CSI-4) and HbA1C test, which were used before and after the treatment. Then, in order to investigate the experimental group, 12 sessions of 45 minutes cognitive-behavioral therapy were conducted. For analyzing the data, a univariate and a multivariate covariance analysis were used. The results showed a significant difference between the experiment group and control group in terms of the effectiveness of cognitive–behavioral therapy on the variables under study. As such, cognitive–behavioral therapy reduced the social anxiety and improved the blood glycemic control in the group which received cognitive–behavioral therapy, relative to the control group. The results of the investigation also showed that, along with other available treatments, the cognitive-behavioral therapy can be considered as one of the new effective remedial intervention, especially in children affected by diabetes.
H. Ahadi; F. Khoeini; A. Delaver
Volume 20, Issue 1 , June 2013, , Pages 1-18
Abstract
The present research aimed at comparing the thinking styles and sensation seeking in undergraduate art and mathematics students. The type of research was causal-comparative, and the target population of this study was comprised of all the undergraduate female students studying art and mathematics at ...
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The present research aimed at comparing the thinking styles and sensation seeking in undergraduate art and mathematics students. The type of research was causal-comparative, and the target population of this study was comprised of all the undergraduate female students studying art and mathematics at the art and architecture faculty and Payambar Azam Educational Complex of Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch. Via relative stratified sampling, 662 female students were chosen from the target population. These students were studying in the second semester of the Iranian school year 87-88. To assess the thinking styles and sensation seeking of the participants, Sternberg’s Thinking Styles Inventory (TSI; Sternberg, 1997a) and Arnett’s Inventory of Sensation Seeking (AISS; Arnett, 1994) were respectively administered. After collecting the data, the hypotheses of the study were tested by independent samples t-test, which resulted in the following findings: (a) judicial, monarchic, hierarchic, global, and local thinking styles in art students are not significantly different from those in mathematics students (p < 0.05), (b) internal thinking style in art students is significantly higher than that in mathematics students (p < 0.01), (c) external thinking style in mathematics students is significantly higher than that in art students (p < 0.05), (d) executive and conservative thinking styles in mathematics students are significantly higher than those in art students(p < 0.01), (e) anarchic (p < 0.05) and legislative, oligarchic, and liberal (p < 0.01) thinking styles in art students are significantly higher than those in mathematics students, and (f) sensation seeking in art students is significantly higher than that in mathematics students (p < 0.01).
