reyhane sheykhan; Ezatollah Ghadampour; reza aghabozorgi
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Getting a diagnosis of breast cancer and treating, it is a stressful event that affects many aspects of mental health, including body image and quality of life. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of self compassion training on body image and quality of life in women with ...
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Getting a diagnosis of breast cancer and treating, it is a stressful event that affects many aspects of mental health, including body image and quality of life. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of self compassion training on body image and quality of life in women with breast cancer without metastasis under chemotherapy. The research design was a semi-experimental, pret-post test with control group. Twenty-nine women (according to entry criteria) were selected by referring to the office of ancolologists and Ayatollah Khansari Hospital in Arak in 1397. They were randomly divided into two groups of experimental and control. The participants responded to body image questionnaires in patients with breast cancer and quality of life as a pretest.The experimental group was trained based on self compassion package, eight sessions of 60 minutes. Finally, the participants of both groups responded to the questionnaires as a post-test.The results showed that self-compassion training, with emphasis on the three components of kindness with itself, human sharing and mind-consciousness, had a positive and significant effect on improving the body image. Also, based on the findings, the quality of life of women, especially in the physical and mental areas, in the experimental group, had a positive and significant increase compared to the control group. Based on the findings, it can be concluded that the development of educational and therapeutic programs based on self compassion can help to improve the mental health and quality of life in cancer patients.
Afsaneh Shahbazirad; Ezatollah Ghadampour; Firoozeh Ghazanfari; Khodamorad Momeni
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This research was conducted to study the effectiveness of education based on the cognition, meta-cognition, and behavioral model in reducing symptoms of social anxiety disorder (SAD). The study was a semi-experimental design with pretest -posttest design with control group. The study population was all ...
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This research was conducted to study the effectiveness of education based on the cognition, meta-cognition, and behavioral model in reducing symptoms of social anxiety disorder (SAD). The study was a semi-experimental design with pretest -posttest design with control group. The study population was all patients with social anxiety disorder (SAD), that, referenced to private and public centers in Kermanshah in 2016, that by available sampling method, 30 patients from persons through structured interview (SCID-I) and social anxiety questionnaire of Connor et al (2000), were eligible for the study, selected and assigned to the experimental and control groups, randomly. Twelve sessions of cognition, meta-cognition, and behavioral treatment according to the model developed and based on theoretical perspectives was administered to experimental group as biweekly; while the control group did not receive the intervention. At the end of the intervention, both groups were evaluated again by the test of Connor et al (2000). The data were analyzed using analysis of covariance (ANCOVA).The findings showed that education based on the cognitive, meta-cognitive, and behavioral model was effective in reducing symptoms of social anxiety disorder (P<0/001). Therefore, according to effectiveness of the model on reducing symptoms of social anxiety disorder (SAD), it seems therapists and counselors can use the developed model to reduce the symptoms of social anxiety disorder (SAD) among patients
