Sajad Naserinia; mahmood borjali
Abstract
The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of emotion-focused therapy in improving the symptoms of obsessive and anxiety in patients with corona disease in khorramabad. The research method is semi-experimaental pretest-posttest-follow up with control group. The ststistical comprehensive ...
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The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of emotion-focused therapy in improving the symptoms of obsessive and anxiety in patients with corona disease in khorramabad. The research method is semi-experimaental pretest-posttest-follow up with control group. The ststistical comprehensive study included all patients with corona disease in khorramabad. The sample consisted of improved with corona disease who were selected by available sampling method and randomly assigned to the control and experimental groups. The experimental group received emotion-focused therapy for eight group sessions. While the control group did not receive any intervention until the end of the project. The Yale Brown Obsessive-Compulsive inventory (Y-BOCS) and the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale (CDAS) were used for data collection, and the multivariate analysis of variance test was used for analysis. Findings showed that emotion-focused therapy improved the obsessive symptoms and reduced anxiety in the experimental group. Finally, emotion-focused therapy has useful implications for improving the psychological symptoms of patients with corona disease.