Journal of Depression and Anxiety
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Students’ Research Committee, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

Biography

Dr. Mahin Kamalifard is currently serving at Students’ Research Committee established under Tabriz University of Medical Sciences located in Tabriz, Iran. He has published many scientific papers and attended the conferences.

Publications

• Research   
  Yoga Improves Anxiety and Vital Signs of Women with Premenstrual Syndrome
  Author(s): Ghafoureh Ghaffarilaleh, Vahid Ghaffarilaeh*, Zeinab Sanamno and Mahin Kamalifard
  
  Objective: To study the effects of yoga on anxiety and vital signs in women that at the same time suffer from premenstrual syndrome (PMS). Material and Methods: In this randomized controlled clinical trial, yoga administered to subjects with PMS for ten weeks in three sessions with a duration of 60 minutes. Women in the control group did not do any yoga. The demographic questionnaire was filled in by subjects before the intervention. Subjects were also expressed their experiences by filling the Hamilton anxiety rating scale twice, before and after the intervention. Sixty-two subjects were entered into the study equally divided into yoga and control groups, randomly. Results: The symptoms of anxiety including anxious mood, tension, fears, insomnia, intellectual, depressed mood, somatic (muscular), somatic (sensory), car.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2167-1044.19.8.343

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