International Journal of Health Sciences
January 13, 2025
Dewi Anggraini
Purpose: The aim of the study was to investigate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) in managing hypertension among adults Methodology: This study adopted a desk methodology. A desk study research design is commonly known as secondary data collection. This is basically collecting data from existing resources preferably because of its low cost advantage as compared to...
International Journal of Health Sciences
April 5, 2023
Luísa Soares Capa, Gabrielle Simon Tronco, Virginia Nascimento Reinert et al.
: Treatment-resistant depression is a common psychiatric disorder that can lead to significant disability and decreased quality of life for patients. In recent years, there has been growing interest in the combination of intravenous ketamine and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for the treatment of treatment-resistant depression. Ketamine is an anesthetic that is an N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)...
International Journal of Health Sciences
October 20, 2022
Zahra Dashtestani, A. Khodami, Majidreza Karimi
The phenomenon of emerging spiritualities has a social and cultural nature and is the result of structural changes in the modern world and actors. To study this phenomenon, while paying attention to cultural, social and historical contexts and theirs processes and considering aspects and macro social and cultural conditions, it is necessary to pay attention to the intentions, thoughts and...
International Journal of Health Sciences
August 5, 2022
Sadaf Moghimi, Simin Montazeri, Nasser Behroozi et al.
Background: Pregnancy during adolescence causes a person to face many challenges, so that its contradiction with the adolescent's identity structure can have negative effects on her psychological dimension, especially on optimism and quality of life. Since the health of the pregnant mother is one of the health priorities of any country, the present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness...
International Journal of Health Sciences
July 21, 2022
M. Maryano, I. Y. Triguna, I. B. Utama
Ruwatan is a Javanese tradition that is still practiced by Javanese in general, although many people from certain religions think it is contradictory, which was previously carried out in order to improve social status, usually done in rural areas, only people who have financial ability, but in reality it is a purification of the soul, a cultural activity, carried out in a metropolitan city,...
International Journal of Health Sciences
June 9, 2022
C. Malathy, C. Ramesh
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the combined quiet breathing pranayama and meditation practices on self confidence among working men. To achieve the purpose of the study thirty working men were selected from Karaikudi, Tamilnadu, India during the year 2022. The subject’s age ranges from 35 to 45 years. The selected subjects were randomly divided into two equal groups...
International Journal of Health Sciences
May 31, 2022
Mahdi Eftekhar
The use of psychedelics to form supernatural experiences has been and is common. Because such substances cause changes in states of consciousness and create a state similar to trance and the departure of the soul from the body or a kind of altered perception of facts. But in some cases, some additional facts are perceived. The question is, to what extent can the use of these materials be a way...
International Journal of Health Sciences
April 18, 2022
Shweta Patel, Diwakar Chauhan, Ranjana Patnaik
Physical wellness, mental wellbeing, psychological state (feelings, emotions, beliefs, perspectives), and social relationships (connections, behaviours, cultural values, and the influence of family, school, colleagues, and community) all have an impact on an individual's psychosocial well-being as stated by WHO. In order to understand the circumstances, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy...