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- Title
اثربخشی درمان فراشناختی بر باورپذیري افکار و احساسات اضطرابی در بیماران مبتلا به اختلال اضطراب فراگیر: یک مطالعه نیمهتجربی
- Authors
Khalilnezhadevati, Mobina; Abbasi, Ghodratollah; Hadinezhad, Pezhman
- Abstract
Background and Objectives: Patients with generalized anxiety disorder have psychological problems and require therapeutic interventions. The current study aimed to determine the effectiveness of metacognitive therapy on the the believability of anxious feelings and thoughts in patients with generalized anxiety disorder. Materials and Methods: This study was a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design with a control group. The statistical population included all outpatient psychiatric patients at the Zare Hospital Psychiatric Clinic in Sari in the fall 2023. Thirty-two individuals were selected using purposive sampling and randomly assigned into two experimental and control groups (16 individuals each). The experimental group received 8 sessions of metacognitive therapy, while the control group did not receive any intervention. Data collection was done using the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale by Spitzer et al. (2006) and the Believability of Anxious Feelings and Thoughts Questionnaire by Herzberg et al. (2012). Multivariate analysis of covariance were used for data analysis. Results: Metacognitive therapy had a significant effect on the believability of anxious feelings and thoughts in patients with generalized anxiety disorder (p<0.001). The mean of believability of anxious feelings and thoughts scores in the experimental group were 86.44 and 55.94 in the pretest and posttest, respectively. This effectiveness was observed across all dimensions of believability of anxious feelings and thoughts with an effect size of 0.869 on the overall (p<0.001 ). Conclusion: The results of this study indicate that metacognitive therapy is effective in improving the believability of anxious feelings and thoughts in patients with generalized anxiety disorder. Therefore, it is recommended this approach be used to enhance the mental health of these patients.
- Subjects
GENERALIZED anxiety disorder; METACOGNITIVE therapy; PEOPLE with mental illness; ANALYSIS of covariance; PSYCHIATRIC clinics
- Publication
Journal of Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, 2024, Vol 23, Issue 3, p159
- ISSN
1735-3165
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.61186/jrums.23.3.150