جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « کولیت اولسراتیو » در نشریات گروه « روانشناسی »

The present study was conducted to investigate the efficacy of ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) on the perceived stress and enhancing a sense of coherence among individuals diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. A quasi-experimental design comprising a pre-test, post-test, control group, and a two-month follow-up period was utilized for the study. The statistical cohort comprised all patients diagnosed with ulcerative colitis who were referred to the Digestion and Liver Research Center during  the autumn and winter of 2019-20, under the supervision of Alzahra Hospital. A total of 25 patients who were diagnosed with ulcerative colitis were chosen using a purposive sampling method and assigned at random to either the experimental or control group. Over the course of two months, the experimental group participated in ten ACT sessions, each lasting seventy-five minutes. The applied questionnaires utilized in this study comprised the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) and Sense of Coherence Questionnaire (SCQ). The data obtained from the study were subjected to analysis using mixed ANOVA via SPSS-23. Patients with ulcerative colitis (p<0.001) experience a significant reduction in perceived tension and sense of coherence, as indicated by the findings. According to the findings, it can be concluded that ACT has the potential to serve as a successful intervention to decrease perceived stress and improvement of sense of coherence among individuals diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. This is achieved through the utilization of six primary processes: acceptance, diffusion, context as self, relationship with the present moment, values, and committed activities.

The aim of this study was the comparison of the effects of cognitive-behavioral stress management, optimism training and medical therapy on the UC patients’ psychological and somatic symptoms, and immunological markers. 30 female patients were selected through the availability sampling method, and were randomly put in the three groups of cognitivebehavioral stress management, optimism training and medical therapy. All patients completed Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and Lichtiger Colitis Activity Index in the pretest stage and blood samples were taken from them. Then, the two experimental groups participated in 9 sessions of the group intervention of cognitive-behavioral stress management and optimism training; following that the three groups completed the scales again and again blood samples were taken from them and this was repeated in a 6- months follow-up. To analyze the data, analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used. The findings of the study indicated that the effects of the two interventions on depression, anxiety, cortisol and TNFα were significant; however, these interventions had no significant effects on the somatic symptoms, IL6 and IL4. As a whole, it can be said that the psychological interventions including stress management and optimism training could be effective in improving the psychological symptoms, regulating the immunological performance and curing of UC patients.