Effectiveness of Treatment Based on Acceptance and Commitment, Compassion-Based Therapy and Combination therapy on Anxiety and Dysfunctional Attitudes in Patients With Systemic Lupus

Lupus is a disease that is causing anxiety in a person causes anxiety and tension in response to threatening conditions. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment based therapy, compassion based therapy and combination therapy on anxiety and Dysfunctional attitudes in patients with systemic lupus.

This is a quasi-experimental study with pre-test, post-test with a control group. The statistical population of this study included all patients with systemic lupus treated in Shiraz hospitals, who Using a available sampling method, 80 individuals were selected and randomly divided into four groups including20 individauls. One group was selected as control group and the other3 as experimental group. The instruments used in this study included Zong Anxiety Scale (1970), and Weisman and Beck (1978) dysfunctional attitudes questionnaire.

Data collected using repeated measures analysis of variance showed that this treatment had a significant effect on systemic lupus in post-test and follow-up stages (F=6/53, p<0/001). Also, the effect of combination therapy in this study was significant (F=207/47,p≤/0005).

According to the findings of the present study, acceptance, commitment and compassion training packages can be used to improve anxiety and dysfunctional attitudes in patients with lupus