The Effectiveness of Positive Psychotherapy (PPT) on Subjective Well-being in Women with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)

the present research was conducted by the aim of investigation the effectiveness of positive psychotherapy on subjective wellbeing of women with systemic lupus erythematosus.

the present research was conducted by semi-experimental method in which a pretest-posttest with control group design was used. All the women with systemic lupus erythematosus who were members of association of protecting patients with systemic lupus erythematosus in Tehran in the first half of 2018 constituted the statistical population of the present study. The sample included 40 patients who were selected by purposeful sampling method and, then, were assigned into two groups of experiment and control (20 subjects per group) through random assignment method. The level of subjective wellbeing was assessed by Mowlavi and colleagues’ questionnaire of subjective wellbeing (2010) in pretest and posttest stages. Sessions of positive psychotherapy were held in eight 120-minute sessions for the experiment group’s subjects while the control group stayed in the waiting list. For analyzing the data, univariate analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used by SPSS24.

Results of the current research affirmed the effectiveness of positive psychotherapy in improving subjective wellbeing of the treatment group’s patients (F = 50.44, p < 0.01).

according to these results, it appears that positive psychotherapy is probably an appropriate interventional option for enhancing mental health among patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.