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- Title
Determining Therapy Effectiveness Based on Acceptance and Commitment in Mental Health and Self-Esteem of Vitiligo Patients in the City of Yazd, in 2016.
- Authors
Rahavi, Azadeh; Nozari, Somayyeh; Bidaki, Reza; Ghanei, Narges
- Abstract
Vitiligo is a chronic skin condition diagnosed with colorless stains caused by the loss of melanocytes in the skin color. It inflicts a considerable load of stress on social relations, interpersonal relations, and affects marital relations. Depression, anxiety, and stress are the series of signs that occur in vitiligo patients. Vitiligo patients do not have many internal problems, but in terms of beauty, several problems are created for individuals. However, care-giving physicians do not pay much attention to the prevailing mood disorder that affects the life quality. Different looks, especially in patients with visible stains, may reduce the patients' confidence. However, there is no study to have investigated the impact of the therapy acceptance and commitment on the mental health and self-esteem of the patients with vitiligo. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of treatment based on the acceptance and commitment in the mental health and self-esteem of the patients with vitiligo. In the present study, the population of the patients with vitiligo, including 30 people available at the Laser Clinic Skin of Yazd in 2016 was taken into account. The sampling method was chosen and the population was randomly divided into two groups, with 15 patients in the intervention group and 15 patients in the control group. The intervention group received 10 two-hour sessions (20 hours) of training based on the acceptance and commitment of the intervention group for 8 weeks. Their mental health was examined using SCL-90 questionnaire (90 questions) and the Self-Esteem questionnaire (58 questions) (pre-test and post-test). The results indicated a more significant impact on all aspects of mental health (i.e. somatization, obsessive-compulsive disorder, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation, and psychosis discrete tendency) and all aspects of self-esteem (public, family, society, employment, and education) for the intervention group than the control group at the end of treatment (P<0.01). The results of the current study revealed that based on the two factors of acceptance and commitment, therapy could help patients with vitiligo in their mental health and self-esteem.
- Subjects
YAZD (Iran); ACCEPTANCE &; commitment therapy; MENTAL health; VITILIGO; SELF-esteem; INTERPERSONAL relations; MARITAL relations
- Publication
Iranian Journal of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences / Progress in Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, 2018, p159
- ISSN
1735-8639
- Publication type
Article