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    <language>eng</language>
          <publisher>Oriental Scientific Publishing Company</publisher>
        <journalTitle>Biomedical and Pharmacology Journal</journalTitle>
          <issn>0974-6242</issn>
            <publicationDate>2015-12-28</publicationDate>
    
        <volume>8</volume>
        <issue>2</issue>

 
    <startPage>965</startPage>
    <endPage>970</endPage>

	 
      <doi>10.13005/bpj/848</doi>
        <publisherRecordId>3847</publisherRecordId>
    <documentType>article</documentType>
    <title language="eng">The Effectiveness of Positive Psychology Interventions with Islamic Approach  on Quality of Life in Females with Multiple Sclerosis</title>

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      <author>
       <name>Hadis Saeedi</name>

 
		
	<affiliationId>1</affiliationId>
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      <author>
       <name>S-M-Hossein Mousavi Nasab</name>


		
	<affiliationId>2</affiliationId>

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      <author>
       <name>Ali Mehdi Zadeh</name>

		
	<affiliationId>3</affiliationId>
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      <author>
       <name>Hossein Ali Ebrahimi</name>

		
	<affiliationId>4</affiliationId>
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		<affiliationName affiliationId="1">MA in Clinical psychology, Neurology Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran. Department of psychology, Islamic Azad University, Kerman branch, Kerman, Iran </affiliationName>
    

		
		<affiliationName affiliationId="2">Assistant Professor of Psychology, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran</affiliationName>
    
		
		<affiliationName affiliationId="3">Psychiatrist, Neuroscience Research Center, Institute of Neuro pharmacology, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran</affiliationName>
    
		
		<affiliationName affiliationId="4">Neurology Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran</affiliationName>
    
		
		
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    <abstract language="eng">Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is one of the common chronic diseases of central nervous system and effects on the person’s sensory and motor function. Since definitive and complete treatment of disease symptoms is unavailable in chronic diseases, it is tried to help these patients by psychological supports to accept that they are able to change their view toward disease and enjoy their other abilities and this disease can’t eradicate their family life and vitality.

The present research is of quasi-experiment type with pretest-posttest design together with control group and following test with one month duration after posttest. In this regard, 40 female patients from members of MS society of Kerman were selected as sample by targeted sampling and then they were placed in two groups of 20 people (experiment&amp; control) through random assignment. Positive psychology was trained only in experiment group during 7 sessions in120 minutes. Quality of life questionnaire was used as instrument. In order to analyze the data, the covariance analysis method was used with companionship of SPSS software, version 18.

Results showed significant difference between quality of life in group of test and control (p&lt;0/001).

The results showed that positive psychology interventions with Islamic Approach increase the quality of life in females with MS. Thus, forming the workshop of positive thinking education for these patients is suggested.</abstract>

    <fullTextUrl format="html">https://biomedpharmajournal.org/vol8no2/the-effectiveness-of-positive-psychology-interventions-with-islamic-approach-on-quality-of-life-in-females-with-multiple-sclerosis/</fullTextUrl>

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        <keyword>Positive Psychology</keyword>
      

      
        <keyword> Islamic approach</keyword>
      

      
        <keyword> Quality of life</keyword>
      

      
        <keyword> Multiple Sclerosis</keyword>
      
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