جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « Well-being Therapy » در نشریات گروه « پزشکی »

Loneliness and death anxiety are two basic psychological problems experienced by the elderly, and well-being therapy is an intervention that can be effective in this case. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of well-being therapy on loneliness and death anxiety in the elderly.
This was applied research conducted as quasi-experimental with pre-test, post-test, and follow-up with a control group.The statistical population of the study included all elderly people aged 65 to 85 years living in Neshat daily nursing home in Mashhad, 30 of whom were randomly divided into an experimental group and a control group. The members of the experimental group participated in the weekly well-being therapy sessions and no intervention was done in the case of the control group. The Russell, Pilau, and Ferguson (1978) Loneliness Scale and the Templer Death Anxiety Scale (1970) were used to collect data. Data analysis was performed using SPSS software version 26 and two-way repeated measures ANOVA.
The findings showed that the comparison of the adjusted means of loneliness and death anxiety scores in the post-test and follow-up stages increased compared to the pre-test stage.The interactive effect of time × group on the loneliness component (p=0.0001, F=124.70) and on the death anxiety component (p=0.0001, F=119.70) was significant at the level of 0.01.
Well-being therapy can significantly reduce feelings of loneliness and death anxiety in the elderly as a non-pharmacological treatment.

Aging is associated with many diseases, deficiencies and disabilities and the elderly are exposed to many problems. The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of well-being therapy with acceptance and commitment therapy on the feeling of loneliness in the day care center for the elderly.

The present study was a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest with a one-month follow-up phase with a control group. The statistical population of the present study included the elderly of Neshat Nursing Home in Mashhad. Among these people, 45 people were selected by purposive sampling method and randomly divided into three groups of 15 people. The experimental groups underwent 8 sessions of 90 minutes of well-being therapy or acceptance and commitment therapy and no action was taken for the control group. Data collection tools included a loneliness questionnaire. SPSS software version 22 and mixed analysis of variance with repeated measures at the level of 0.05 were used to analyze the research data.

The results showed that well-being therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy had a significant effect on reducing the loneliness of the elderly in the post-test and follow-up stages (P <0.001). But there was no significant difference between the effectiveness of the two groups (P <0.05).

According to the results, well-being therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy can be used to improve the feeling of loneliness in the elderly.

Infertility as a pregnancy failure after one year of regular sexual intercourse without contraception can cause various psychological problems. The present study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of well-being therapy on the stress of infertility and rumination among women with infertility.

The present study was quasi-experimental with a pretest, posttest, control group, and a two-month follow-up period. For this purpose, a sample of 60 infertile patients from Hazrat Maryam Infertility Clinic in Sari was randomly selected and randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups. The experimental group received well-being therapy in groups within eight, 90-minute sessions, and the control group did not receive any intervention. The tools used in this study included the Infertility Stress questionnaire and the mental rumination questionnaire. Data were analyzed by covariance analysis using SPSS software version 22.

The results showed that in the experimental group, the mean (SD) infertility stress score decreased from 153.2 (5.9) in the pretest to 140.5 (8.1) in the posttest and 136.1 (7.2) in the follow-up stage (P<0.001). In the control group, the mean (SD) infertility stress score increased from 151.2 (13.1) in pretest to 150.9 (13.7) in posttest and 156.2 (7.4) in the follow-up stage, which was not significant. The mean (SD) rumination score decreased from 48.7 (7.6) in the pretest to 41.4 (5.8) in the posttest and 41.1 (5.6) in the follow-up stage (P<0.001). In the control group, the mean (SD) rumination score increased from 49.1 (7.4) in the pretest to 48.1 (7.7) in the posttest and 47.6 (7.5) in the follow-up stage, which was not significant.

It can be concluded that well-being therapy reduces infertility to stress and rumination among women with infertility.

Diabetic patients rescued from Coronavirus face many health-related problems. One of the therapeutic methods derived from positive psychology to reduce health-related problems is the well-being therapy method. As a result, this research aimed to determine the effectiveness of well-being therapy on fasting blood sugar, depression, happiness, and optimism in diabetic patients rescued from Coronavirus.

This study was semi-experimental with a pretest and posttest design with a control group. The research population includes diabetic patients rescued from the Coronavirus who were members of Mashhad diabetes association in 2020. Forty people were selected by purposive sampling technique and randomly divided into two equal groups. The experimental group was trained 10 sessions of 90 minutes with the well-being therapy method (two sessions per week) and the control group was placed on the waiting list for training. The research tools were the blood sugar test and questionnaires of depression, happiness, and optimism. Data were analyzed using tests of chi-square, independent t, and multivariate analysis of covariance.

The results showed that the groups in the pretest stage were not significantly different in terms of fasting blood sugar, depression, happiness, and optimism (p<0.05), but in the posttest stage there was a significant difference in terms of all four variables (p<0.001). In other words, the well-being therapy led to a decrease in fasting blood sugar and depression and an increase in happiness and optimism in diabetic patients rescued from Coronavirus.

Based on the results of this research, health experts and therapists can use the well-being therapy method along with other treatment methods for health-related interventions.

Depressed patients face problems in field of life expectancy and psychological health. Therefore, the present research aimed to compare the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy and well-being therapy on life expectancy and psychological health in elderly nonclinical depressed patients.

This study was a semi-experimental study with pretest and posttest design with control group. The research population was elderly nonclinical depressed patients referred to the psychological services clinics and centers of Ahvaz city in the spring season of 2020. 75 people were selected by purposive sampling method and randomly replaced into three equal groups. The experimental groups were separately trained 10 sessions of 90 minutes with the methods of acceptance and commitment therapy and well-being therapy, and the control group did not receive any training. The research instruments were the Scales of Yasavage and Sheikh elderly depression, Snyder and et al. life expectancy and Najarian and Davodi psychological health. Data were analyzed by chi-square, multivariate analysis of covariance and Bonferroni post hoc tests.

The findings showed that groups were not significantly different in terms of gender, age and education (p>0.05). Also, both methods of acceptance and commitment therapy and well-being therapy in comparison with the control group led to a significant improvement in the life expectancy and psychological health (p<0.001), but there was no significant difference between two methods in improving the variables (p>0.05).

Based on the results, therapists and health experts can use both methods of acceptance and commitment therapy and well-being therapy to improve health related traits especially the life expectancy and psychological health improvement.

This study was conducted to examine the effect of couple therapy with well-being therapy method on depression, marital life quality, optimism and social well-being in patients with cardiovascular disease.

Patients with cardiovascular disease experience many problems in their marital life and health, and one of the effective methods for improving the characteristics of marital life and their health is possibly the couple therapy with well-being therapy method.

This study was a semi-experimental pretest- posttest study with control group. The study population was patients with cardiovascular disease referred to Javad Al-Aeme Cardiovascular Hospital in Mashhad city, Iran, in 2021. Thirty patients and their couples were recruited by purposive sampling method based on inclusion criteria and allocated to experimental (n=15 couples) and control (n=15 couples) group by simple random sampling. The experimental group received 8 sessions of 90-minute duration (two sessions per week) couple therapy with well-being therapy method and during this period the control group did not receive any intervention. Data were collected through the self-reported questionnaires of depression, marital life quality, optimism and social well-being and analyzed by Chi-square, independent t-test and multivariate analysis of covariance in SPSS-19 software.

The findings showed that the experimental and control groups were not significantly different in terms of education, gender, age and duration of cardiovascular disease. Before intervention, there was no statistically significant difference between groups in terms of the mean scores of depression, marital life quality, optimism and social well-being, but after intervention, a statistically significant difference was groups between experimental and control group in the mean scores of all four variables (P≤0.0001). The couple therapy with well-being therapy method led to reduced depression (F=192.046, P≤0.0001) and increased marital life quality (F=329.770, P≤0.0001), optimism (F=230.267, P≤0.0001) and social well-being (F=359.558, P≤0.0001) in patients with cardiovascular disease.

The results of this study indicated the effect of couple therapy with well-being therapy method on reducing depression and increasing marital life quality, optimism and social well-being in patients with cardiovascular disease. Health professionals and therapists can use this method to improve the characteristics of marital life and those related to health.

Wellbeing therapy is one of the new therapies in the field of positive psychology that originated from cognitive behavioral therapy. The present study was conducted with the aim of examining the effectiveness of well-being-therapy on Psychological well-being, optimist and life expectancy in Iranian Methamphetamine-dependent Men in abstinence phase.

Fifty (N = 50) males (ages 18-38 with mean: 26.6) among patients who referred to Addiction Treatment Center (stimulants) in Karaj were selected by purposive sampling method and were assigned randomly into experimental (25 individuals) and control (25 individuals) groups by office software. Experimental group was treated with Ryffchr('39')s Well-being therapy for 12 weekly sessions (50 min each session) and control group received only routine center treatments. Then, the two groups were evaluated in pre-test and post-test by Ryffchr('39')s Psychological Well-being Questionnaire (Response Rate = 96%), shiererchr('39')s optimist Questionnaire (Response Rate = 94%) and snyderchr('39')s hope Questionnaire (Response Rate = 91%) Were. Participants were given a urine test twice a week at a given threshold of 300 ng/ml to ensure adherence to abstinence. Data were analyzed by t-test and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA).

The results showed that well-being therapy had a significant effect on improving psychological well-being with 24.3 confidence interval (31.85-16.75), optimism with 19.71 confidence interval (24.74-14.68) and hope with 17.02 confidence interval (22.48-11.56) (all p’s< 0/01).

The results of this study, while confirming the research background of the efficacy of positive therapies as an effective component in the process of recovery and avoidance of substance use, can be used in the evaluation, planning of therapeutic interventions and future research pathway in amphetamine users.

This study aimed to examine the effect of well-being therapy on hope, distress tolerance and death anxiety in people with cardiovascular disease after getting a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Cardiovascular patients rescued from COVID-19 face go through many psychological health issues regarding hope, distress tolerance and death anxiety. Well-being therapy has been known as one of the methods based on positive psychological approach that may have a positive effect on psychological health of these patients.

This study was a semi-experimental study with pretest-posttest design with control group. The statistical population was cardiovascular patients rescued from COVID-19 living in Ahvaz city, Iran, in year 2020, from which 40 people were recruited by convenience sampling method and randomly allocated two experimental and control group. The experimental group received well-being therapy for 10 sessions of 90 minutes duration (two sessions per week) and the control group was placed on the waiting list for training. Research tools were the hope scale, distress tolerance questionnaire and death anxiety scale. Data were analyzed in SPSS-19 using Chi-square test, independent t-test and multivariate analysis of covariance.

The groups did not differ significantly in terms of gender, marital status, age, education and duration of illness. Also, before intervention, there was no statistically significant difference between the groups in terms of mean scores of hope, distress tolerance and death anxiety. After intervention, statistically significant difference was found between experimental and control group in the mean scores of all three dependent variables, meaning that well-being therapy improved hope (F=114.497, P≤0.0001) and distress tolerance (F=165.032, P≤0.0001), and decreased death anxiety (F=101.408, P≤0.0001) in people with cardiovascular disease after getting a COVID-19.

Regarding the effect of well-being therapy on improving hope and distress tolerance and decreasing death anxiety people with cardiovascular disease after getting a COVID-19, it is recommended that therapists and health professionals apply well-being therapy to improve hope and distress tolerance and decrease death anxiety in people with cardiovascular disease after getting a COVID-19.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the “well-being therapy" method on clinical syndrome in patients with major depression as a randomized clinical trial.

This randomized clinical trial study was performed on patients with major depression who referred to the psychological clinic of Shamim, Bojnurd city. Participants eligible to enter the study were randomly assigned to the intervention and control groups. In the intervention group Well-being therapy was performed in 8 sessions of 50 minutes and once a week, and the control group did not receive any treatment .Both groups were evaluated before and after the study and two months later by the Second Depression Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II). Data were analyzed by generalized estimation equation (GEE) in STATA12 statistical program and p-value <0.05 was considered statistically significant.

A total of 24 subjects had inclusion criteria in which 12 participants were randomly assigned to each group. The frequency of women in the intervention and control group was 67.0% and 72.0%, respectively. The results of the GEE test showed that in the well-being group, the mean depression scores decreased 10.90 rather than the control group (p-value <0.0001).

The results of this study showed that the well-being of patients with major depression reduces their depression.

Psychological interventions play an important role in the prevention and treatment of addiction. This research was done with the purpose of investigating the efficacy of well-being therapy on three indexes of anxiety, stress and depression.
In this experimental study, from August to January, 2014, thirty men using methamphetamine under supervision of Verdich Therapeutic-Community Center were voluntarily selected. They were then screened based on the diagnostic criteria for anxiety, stress and depression, and finally twenty-four patients were included and randomly assigned into two groups of twelve ,experiment and control group. The experimental group received 12 weekly sessions of well-being each lasting one hour. Also, addiction urine test was taken two times per week with cutoff value 300 Ng/ml. The data were analyzed by Chi-Square and t-tests.
Data analysis showed that well-being therapy had a significant effect on anxiety (20.84±2.51 for exp group vs 24.32±2.13 for control group, p0.05).
The findings of this study may have an optimistic outlook on the efficacy of therapeutic interventions on psycho-cognitive impairments.