Mahnaz Bahadori; Mahnaz Mehrabizadeh honarmand; Parviz Askary; Hasan Ahadi; Leila Moradi
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The purpose of the present study was to compare the effectiveness of compassion focused therapy and positivist psychology with well-being approach on alexithymia, adaptive behavior and adherence to treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes. The research design was a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest ...
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The purpose of the present study was to compare the effectiveness of compassion focused therapy and positivist psychology with well-being approach on alexithymia, adaptive behavior and adherence to treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes. The research design was a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest with control group. The sample size included 45 patients with type 2 diabetes who were selected by purposive sampling. Of these, 15 were assigned to the experimental group of compassion focused therapy, 15 to the experimental group of positivist psychology with well-being approach and 15 to the control group by simple random sampling. To collect research data, the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (Bagby et al., 1994), the Psycho-social Adjustment with Illness Scale (Derogatis, 1990) and the Adherence Questionnaire (Modanloo, 2013) were used. The compassion focused experimental group received 8 sessions of two-hour intervention and the experimental group of positive psychology with well-being approach received 8 two-hour sessions, too. Multivariate Analysis of Covariance (MANCOVA) was used to analyze the data. The results showed that both therapeutic approaches in the post-test phase had a significant effect on alexithymia, adaptive behavior and adherence to treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes (p<0.05). There was no significant difference between the two intervention methods in each of the dependent variables. Based on the findings, it can be said that the application of both therapeutic approaches is effective in reducing alexithymia and increasing the level of adaptive behavior as well as adherence to treatment.
maryam nasri; maryam nasri
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Transdiagnostic treatment is one of the new therapies that the effect of it on many psychological variables has been established. The purpose of the current study was to examine the effectiveness of Transdiagnostic treatment on cognitive flexibility, emotion regulation and hb factor in patients with ...
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Transdiagnostic treatment is one of the new therapies that the effect of it on many psychological variables has been established. The purpose of the current study was to examine the effectiveness of Transdiagnostic treatment on cognitive flexibility, emotion regulation and hb factor in patients with type 2 diabetes. The research method was experimental (pretest, posttest with control group). In this research, 32 patients with type 2 diabetes randomly assigned to experimental (8 males and 8 female) and control (8 males and 8 female) groups. The Cognitive Flexibility (Dennis & Vander Wal, 2010) and Emotion Regulation Scales (Gross & John, 2003) were used for collecting the data. The ELISA method was used for assessing the Hb factor. Transdiagnostic treatment was administered to experimental group, in 12 one-hour sessions. The data were analyzed using analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). The results indicated that the Transdiagnostic treatment is effective in increasing the cognitive flexibility and emotion reappraisal and decreasing the emotion control (p < 0.01), but, had no effect on hb factor. According to the results, Transdiagnostic treatment was suggested for improving the cognitive flexibility and emotion regulation in patients with type 2 diabetes.
