Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic disease with a profound effect on the life quality of the patients due to its chronic, painful, and disabling nature. Objectives: This study aimed to determine the effects of progressive muscle relaxation technique on life quality in RA patients. Methods: This clinical trial was conducted in a rheumatologist office on 62 RA patients. The part...

background: test anxiety is one of the major causes of students’ academic failure.  this problem would be more salient for pre-university students as they are highly engaged with university entrance exam. psychotherapy can be supposed as a desired method of reducing test anxiety for students and their parents. the purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of cognitive and relaxatio...

Background: The process of infertility comes along with various social, mental, physical and financial stresses. The process of IVF treatment makes about 1.3% of women depressed having much anxiety in terms of psychiatric health. This also makes an intervention with the process of treatment in this regard. The present study is to determine the impact of relaxation on anxiety and the result of I...

As a means of extending the significance of findings in experimental psychology and nonvisual psychological lighting research to digital game research, the present study was designed to investigate the impact of warm (reddish) and cool (bluish) simulated illumination in digital game worlds on game users' affect and play performance. In line with some previous findings, we predicted that lightin...

Relaxation is meant as a modification of a constraint network such that the network permits more solutions; for instance, a formerly inconsistent network may become consistent. A lot of algorithms in this area try to localize constraints or even whole priority levels of constraints that must be removed to allow global consistency. However, the problem when removing entire (levels of) constraint...