The Effect of Group Logotherapy on hopeness in spinal cord injury patients

The purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of group logotherapy on hopefulness in spinal cord injury patients. This study was a Quasi- xperimental research with pre-post test experimental design. The population of this research consisted of all spinal cord injury patients that injury in Bam earthquake. The statistical population of this study was all patients with spinal cord injuries due to Bam earthquake. The sample was 32 people with spinal cord injury who were randomly selected and divided into two expremantal and control groups (16 in control and 16 in expremental group). Participants were evaluated by Miller and Powers (1988) Inventory. Logotherapy duration was 8 weeks in the expremental group. The control group received no intervention. Data were analyzed using analysis of covariance. The findings show that there are significant differences between the groups and experimental group average is more. Therefore, it can be concluded that logotherapy in increasing the hopeness in spinal cord injury is effective.