zahra salarrad; lida leilabadi; nahid Nafissi; adis Kraskian Mujembari
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Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of emotion-focused therapy on anxiety and quality of life in women with breast cancer.
Method: A quasi-experimental design was used to collect pre-test, post-test and follow-up data (three months after) from treatment and control groups. ...
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Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of emotion-focused therapy on anxiety and quality of life in women with breast cancer.
Method: A quasi-experimental design was used to collect pre-test, post-test and follow-up data (three months after) from treatment and control groups. The sample consisted of 30 women with breast cancer in Tehran who had a high score in anxiety after screening. They were selected based on purposive sampling and randomly placed in experimental and control groups of size 15. The experimental group received 12 sessions (50 minutes) of emotion-focused therapy (Greenberg, 2010). The control group did not receive an intervention. Data were collected using Beck Anxiety Inventory and Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - Breast Cancer (FACT-B) in three stages: pre-test, post-test, and follow up, and analyzed using mixed variance analysis.
Findings: Results showed significant within and between subject differences (P<0.01) on measures of anxiety and quality of life. Emotion-focused therapy significantly reduced anxiety and increased quality of life in the treatment group relative to the control group. Moreover, post-test and follow-up levels of anxiety and quality of life differed significantly from pre-test levels, but not from each other.
Conclusion: Emotion-focused therapy targeting emotional processing and expression improved [d1] regulation of clients' emotions and can be used as an appropriate intervention method to reduce anxiety and increase quality of life in women with breast cancer.
fatemeh Fazeli sani; Mahdieh Salehi; amin rafiepoor; Javad Khalatbari
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Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of emotion-focused therapy and cognitivebehavioral therapy on pain coping strategies and pain catastrophizing in patients with pain disorder.Method: The research method was a quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest design and a control ...
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Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of emotion-focused therapy and cognitivebehavioral therapy on pain coping strategies and pain catastrophizing in patients with pain disorder.Method: The research method was a quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest design and a control group and a twomonth follow-up. The statistical population of the study included all women with psychosomatic problems and painwho referred to Manoushan and Behsa counseling centers in Tehran. The sample size included 60 patients (three groupsof 20). The research instruments included the Rosenstileand Keefe (1983) Pain Coping Strategies Questionnaire andthe Bishop and Pivik (1995) Pain CatastropheScale. The emotion-focused experimental group received 12 trainingsessions and the cognitive-behavioral experimental group received 10 sessions training, but the control group did notreceive any intervention during the study.Results: The results of mixed variance analysis and Benferroni pairwise comparison test showed that both emotionfocused therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy have significant impact on the components of pain reinterpretation,pain catastrophizing, behavioral activity, and coping efficiency (P <0.05), but they do not have significant effect onthe components of return attention, ignoring pain, prayer and hope, and self-talking (P <0.05). The results also showedthat both treatments have significant effect on pain catastrophizing (P<0.05). Also, no significant difference wasobserved between the two experimental groups (P <0.05).Conclusion: Therefore, the results of the present study show that emotion-focused therapy, like cognitive-behavioraltherapy, can be used for patients with pain disorders and improve their cognitive factors.
mahnaz etefaghi; Mehrdad Sabet; Khadijeh Abolmaali Alhoseini
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Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of Barlow's transdiagnostic, emotion-focused and mindfulness therapy on moderating the eating behavior of adults with obesity.
Method: The present research project was a semi-experimental with pretest, post test, and follow up with a ...
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Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of Barlow's transdiagnostic, emotion-focused and mindfulness therapy on moderating the eating behavior of adults with obesity.
Method: The present research project was a semi-experimental with pretest, post test, and follow up with a control group. The statistical population included all people with obesity in Tehran. Sixty people were randomly selected through available sampling method and were assigned to four groups: (1) Barlow's transdiagnostic therapy, (2) emotion- focused therapy, (3) mindfulness-based therapy, and (4) control group. Data were analyzed using the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire (DEBQ) in three stages: pre test, post test, and follow up, and were analyzed by mixed-variance analysis.
Results: The research findings showed the within effects significant (P<0.05) regarding emotional, environmental, and restricted eating. Regarding between effects, a significant and constant effectiveness was found in the subscale of emotional and restricted eating in emotion- focused therapy group and in the subscale of environmental eating in mindfulness-based therapy group (P<0.05).
Conclusion: Emotion- focused therapy can help people to moderate emotional and restricted eating through emotional experience and making sense of emotions, and mindfulness therapy can help people to moderate environmental eating by helping them focus on the present moment and break repetitive patterns.
shahnaz Gili; seyed abbas haghayegh; vahid sadeghifiroozabadi; alireza alizadehghavidel; hasan rezayijamalooyi
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Objective: The present study was conducted with the aim of examining the effectiveness of Emotionally FocusedTherapy (EFT) on depression of heart disease patients in Tehran city in 2019.
Method: The research method was semi-experimental with pretest-posttest and control group. The statisticalpopulation ...
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Objective: The present study was conducted with the aim of examining the effectiveness of Emotionally FocusedTherapy (EFT) on depression of heart disease patients in Tehran city in 2019.
Method: The research method was semi-experimental with pretest-posttest and control group. The statisticalpopulation of the study consisted of all heart disease patients in Tehran city, among whom 30 individuals were selectedthrough available sampling method and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups (15 in each group). Theexperimental group received Emotionally Focused Therapy training in nine 60-minute sessions, and the control groupremained in the waiting list. The research instrument was depression questionnaire (Beck, Steer & Braun,1996) whichwas conducted in two stages of pretest and posttest. The analysis was performed through SPSS v24 in two descriptiveand inferential statistical sections.
Results: The results indicated that intervention used in this study could significantly decrease depression in heartdisease patients (p˂0.05).
Conclusion: Based on the results of this research, Emotionally Focused Therapy can be an effective intervention inreducing depression in heart disease patients.
