The effectiveness of computer-based cognitive rehabilitation on improving cognitive impairment in adolescents with generalized anxiety disorder

Adolescence is one of the most important transformational periods and a person will face many challenges during this period, each of which in turn can cause stress and anxiety in the adolescent's life. Anxiety disorders are one of the most common psychiatric problems in adolescence, one of the most common of which is generalized anxiety disorder ; Accordingly, the present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of computer-based cognitive rehabilitation on improving cognitive impairment in adolescents with generalized anxiety disorder. According to the applied and semi-experimental type of research with a pre-test-post-test design, 30 teenagers with generalized anxiety disorder in the psychological and counseling centers of Kerman city In 2021 were selected and randomly divided into two groups of 15 people using non-random sampling method. The experiment and control were divided and evaluated using the cognitive impairment questionnaire (Broadbent, 1998).. were evaluated. In order to perform interventions related to research and computer-based cognitive rehabilitation training on the experimental group, Captain Log's software was used, which was performed in 20 sessions of 45 minutes and 2 days each week. order to analyze the data, in the descriptive statistics section, the mean and standard deviation and in the inferential statistics section, the analysis of covariance model was used by SPSS-22 software. The findings of this research showed that the scores of the components of cognitive impairment decreased significantly during interventions related to computer-based cognitive rehabilitation, so it can be concluded that computer-based cognitive rehabilitation improves the cognitive impairment of adolescents with disorders. Pervasive anxiety (p<0.005) .is effective and practical.. As a result, psychologists and counselors are advised to use this therapeutic intervention to treat generalized anxiety disorder in adolescents