جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "fear of disease progression" در نشریات گروه "روانشناسی"

This study aims to determine the effectiveness of logo therapy to the fear of disease progression and pain intensity in women with Breast Cancer. This research was of a semi-experimental with pre-test and post-test experimental and control groups. The study population included all the females with Breast Cancer referring to the Sarem Hospital of Tehran in 1398. By applying Voluntary sampling, 24 patients selected and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The experimental group received 8 sessions of 2 hours of logo therapy training. fear of disease progression questionnaire and  pain intensity scale were used to collect the data. Data were analyzed using SPSS software (ver. 25) and multivariate analysis of covariance. The results of analysis of covariance showed that group meaning therapy significantly reduced the fear of disease progression and pain intensity in the post-test stage compared to the pre-test in the experimental group compared to the control group. this treatment can be used as a complementary treatment, along with medication, to improve the quality of life of these patients.

Rheumatoid arthritis is a preexisting chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease with a prevalence of 0.5 to 2.4 percent in the world. The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) on the psychological distress and fear of disease progression in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

this quasi-experimental clinical trial study was performed on 30 people with rheumatoid arthritis selected through purposive sampling and randomly assigned in tow groups, experimental and control (n= 15 persons) the intervention was implemented 8 session per week is a one-half hour session in the experimental group. Data were collected using Psychological distress questionnaire (DASS) and fear of disease progression and analysis was done by SPSS-22 software. Descriptive and inferential statistics and repeated measures ANOVA and Bonferroni post hoc test were used.

Results of repeated measure ANOVA showed significant difference between the two groups in mean depression and stress (P> 0.05). Anxiety scores were not significantly different between the two groups (P <0.05). Bonferroni post hoc test results showed a significant difference between the stress, depression and fear of disease progression in the pre-test, post-test and follow-up.

the results indicate the effect of ACT on the psychological distress and fear of disease progression in patients with rheumatoid arthritis; therefore, this treatment can be used as a complementary treatment, along with medication, to improve the quality of life of these patients

Fear of disease progression is common problems and the main causes of distress in chronic disease. This fear can have destructive effect, including emotional problems of patients with chronic physical diseases. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between fear of disease progression with anxiety, stress and depression among multiple sclerosis and cancer patients. The sample of this research consisted of 212 female patients with multiple sclerosis and 102 cancer who were selected by convenience sampling method. The assessment tools have been include fear of progression questionnaire and depression, anxiety and stress scale. The results showed that significant positive relationships were found for fear of progression and anxiety, stress and depression. All in all, the result of this analysis showed that the tested model explain 48 percentage of the variance of emotional problems. Another finding of this study was that the fear of disease progression in patients with cancer was much more than in patients with multiple sclerosis. Thus, due to administration and planning health care of chronic diseases, including multiple sclerosis and cancer, the consideration of fear of disease progression in these patients is important.