The Effect of Mentalization-Based Therapy on the Amount of Health Promoting Behaviors in People with Coronary Heart Disease

Health promoting behaviors are vital for anyone, particularly for those with coronary heart disease. Accordingly, the present study has been aimed to survey the effectiveness of mentalization-based therapy on health promoting behaviors in patients with coronary heart disease.

the study is an experimental one with pre-test and post-test design. The sample included 40 men with cardiac disease. They were chosen by purposive sampling and were coincidentally divided into the experimental and control groups. The mentalization therapy was run to the experimental group. The Walker and Hill (1997) health promotion questionnaire were used for data gathering.

Mentalization-based therapy exerted a significant effect on the enhancement of health promoting behaviors in the experimental group compared with controls.

Mentalization-based therapy is an appropriate strategy to increase health promoting behaviors in patients with coronary heart disease and it can be used as an effective intervention method.