nasrin khalili

The corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is one of the most important healthcare and societal challenges to have emerged in the last century. Therefore, a primary aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of acceptance and commitment therapy on depression and quality of life among women with chronic pain during COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.

In a quasi-experimental pre-test-post-test design with a control group, 35 women with chronic pain after initial clinical evaluation and research conditions were selected and randomly divided into two groups of acceptance and commitment therapy matrix (n = 18) and control (n = 17). The experimental group received 6 sessions of weekly treatment based on acceptance and commitment by matrix method. All participants completed the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-ΙΙ) and the World Health Organization Quality of Life Questionnaire (WHOQOL-BREF) in two stages: pretest and posttest. The collected data were evaluated utilizing SPSS V. 23. Our descriptive statistics, comprising the mean and Standard Deviation (SD), as well as empirical and statistical studies, included covariance analysis (ANCOVA) and variance uniformity Levene. (P > 0.05).

  The results showed that weekly treatment based on acceptance and commitment by matrix method had a significant effect on reducing depression (F= 1.893, P=0.151), and increasing quality of life F = 5.431; P =0.003) of women with chronic pain during COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.

The effectiveness of group psychotherapy based on acceptance and commitment by matrix method has a significant effect on reducing depression and increasing quality of life and reducing among women with chronic pain during COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.

In this study, transactional analysis psychotherapy was used to evaluate the effect of negative automatic thoughts and optimism on female adolescents with social anxiety disorder. It included female adolescents in district 6 of Isfahan in 2019-2020 who were referred to psychological clinics to treat social anxiety disorder and were chosen by purposive sampling. It was a quasi-experimental study with pre-post tests and a control group, where 24 female adolescents with social anxiety disorder were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups (12 in each group). Data collection instruments included Life Orientation Scale (LOT-R) and Negative Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire (NATQ). The experimental group received an educational program during eight 90-minute weekly sessions; the control group did not receive any interventions. In both groups, questionnaires were administered before and after the intervention sessions. In addition, the data were analyzed using SPSS software, Version 19, using covariance analysis. The results showed that the experimental and control groups differed significantly regarding optimism during pretest control (F=23.573; p < .0001). Transactional analysis psychotherapy increased optimism among the experimental group because the mean optimism levels were higher than those of the control group. The results of the study suggest that transactional analysis psychotherapy is an effective method for treating social anxiety.