The Effectiveness of Cognitive- Behavioral Therapy with Old People (CBTO) on General Health Parameters in Patients who Suffered from Parkinson Disease

Goal: Parkinson disease is a type of degenerative disorder of central nervous system in old people and the current study was aimed at review of the effectiveness of CBT treatment on genaral health parameters among the patients who are suffered from Parkinson disease.

in this study, the methodology was considered as semiexperimental technique with pretest and posttest plan along with control group that was derived from statistical population of old people who were suffered from Parkinson disease so that research samples included 40 participants who were chosen by available sampling method and divided into testing and control groups randomly. Tested group was supervised under CBTO treatment within 10 sessions. Research tools which used in this study, included General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28), that was administered in two stages namely pretest and posttest.

The results came from ANCOVA indicated that Cognitive- Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has caused the improvement in physical and mental health parameters in the tested group (p<0.01).

Cognitive- Behavioral Therapy with Old people (CBTO) causes the enhancement in all general health parameters among the Parkinson disease patients. Therefore, this method may be utilized as a complementary treatment in hospitals and asylums. Thus, it is suggested to present CBT treatment along with other medical interventions as a part of treatment and medical care for old people who are suffered from Parkinson disease.