center of Care Research Nursing and Midwifery & Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. , Zahra_ghazavi@nm.mui.ac.ir
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Introduction: The Preservation of health and mental health, especially among students is
important, because they are the future of the country. In the event of damage to the mental
health of students and their academic performance is reduced. This study aimed to determinethe effect of psychological interventions on mental status of female students with behavioral
disorders
Methods: This research was a clinical trial study in 80 female students (40 intervention
and 40 control) were residing in the dormitory of Medical Sciences during 2010-11 which
had the required conditions to enter the study program based on inclusion and exclusion
criteria. The data gathering tools was MMPI (Minnesota Multiphase Personality Inventory)questionnaire had 71 questions that researchers using these tools for mental status in both theintervention and control groups before and after psychological interventions (in Grouptherapy 8 sessions of 45 min) data analysis with SPSS software using descriptive and
inferential statistics was performed.
Results: Finding showed some mental status criterion had an Statistically significant
average difference: the measure of paranoia, aspects of defense and lie detector test criterionin the two intervention and control groups.(p<0/005) However, some measures of mentalstatus showed no statistically significant difference.
Conclusion: Researchers have suggested to do researches however as with a more widely
and using a variety of other assessment tools.
Ghazavi Z, Taleghani F, Keshani F, Keshani F. Effect of psychological interventions on mental status of female students. IJPN 2015; 2 (4) :26-35 URL: http://ijpn.ir/article-1-465-en.html