Zohreh Honarvar; Mohsen Doustkam; Hasan Toozandehjani
Abstract
Introduction
The prerequisite for the development of any organization is to have healthy and efficient human resources. Numerous factors are effective in creating the physical and mental health of employees of an organization as well as their efficiency, the most important of which is the cause of burnout. ...
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Introduction
The prerequisite for the development of any organization is to have healthy and efficient human resources. Numerous factors are effective in creating the physical and mental health of employees of an organization as well as their efficiency, the most important of which is the cause of burnout. Burnout typically begins with abnormal reactions to conflict, failure, and job stress, and finally, it impairs individual performance. Jobs that have more stress and responsibilities are more exposed to it. Due to the fundamental and decisive role of Legal Medicine in appeal court cases, and also in dealing with annoying issues and crime scenes, Legal Medicine employees face a lot of stress in their careers. The organizational consequences of job burnout include reduced productivity and increased health costs.
According to the mentioned materials and considering the importance of the subject of burnout in Legal Medical workers and the injuries affected by it, the need for further investigation and research was observed to reduce its harmful and destructive effects. The aim of the present study was to compare the effectiveness of behavioral activation therapy and metacognitive therapy on job burnout of Legal Medicine employees.
Method
This quasi-experimental study was conducted with a pre-test, post-test, and follow-up design with a control group of Mashhad Legal Medicine employees in 1399. Using the available sampling method after initial evaluation and fulfillment of research conditions, 45 people were selected and were randomly assigned to three groups. The first group received behavioral activation therapy the second group received metacognitive therapy and the third group was placed on the waiting list as a control group. To collect information, Meslach burn was used. The reliability of the questionnaire was calculated by the method of Cronbach's alpha, and its value was obtained above 0.7 for all three items of the questionnaire. Likewise, content validity was used to test the validity of the questionnaire, for which the questionnaires were approved by the relevant expert.
Results
Analysis of variance with repeated measures was used to analyze the data. According to the F calculated at the level of 0.05, both treatments were effective in the index of job burnout. The results showed that behavioral activation therapy and metacognitive therapy led to changes in job burnout and its subscales, and in subscales of exhaustion emotional and personal accomplishment decrease, metacognitive therapy had better results than behavioral activation therapy.
Discussion
The results indicate that behavioral activation therapy and metacognitive therapy are significantly effective in the field of mental health of Legal Medicine employees and the importance of psychological care in the workplace becomes more apparent.
mohsen doustkam; Sepideh Pour heydari; Faezeh Karimi Sadr; ABOLFAZL HOSSEINI
Abstract
The purpose of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of Modular Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy on facial expression bias and fear of negative evaluation in paranoid students. The research method was quasi-experimental with pre-test-post-test with control group. The ...
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The purpose of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of Modular Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy on facial expression bias and fear of negative evaluation in paranoid students. The research method was quasi-experimental with pre-test-post-test with control group. The research community was composed of all students referring to the counseling center of kashmar University of Medical Sciences in the year 2017-16, who were diagnosed according to Multidimensional Clinical Questionnaire-3 and DSM-5 criteria with paranoid attribution disorder (According to statistics obtained from the center 60 people). Of these, 20 students with paranoid characteristics were selected through purposeful sampling and were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The experimental group received 16 sessions of Modular Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (HRT), Chuppita and did not receive interventional control.Multidimensional Clinical Questionnaire and Objective Fear Scale , were completed before and after the intervention by both groups. The collected data were analyzed by SPSS-22 software and inferential statistics of covariance analysis. The results of analysis of covariance showed that by eliminating the effect of pre-test scores on facial expression bias and fear of negative evaluation as a scattering variable, the main effect of Modular cognitive-behavioral therapy on facial expression bias and fear of negative evaluation in post-test is significant (P>0/05). Therefore, Modular cognitive behavioral therapy can be used as an effective method to reduce interpretation bias and fear of negative evaluation of people with paranoid traits.