Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Based on Islamic Teachings in Reducing Anxiety Thoughts, Increasing Resilience and life Expectancy in Women with MS and Depression in Tehran

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The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectivenessof cognitive-havioral therapy in reducing anxiety thoughts,increasing resilience and life expectancy in women with MS anddepression in Tehran.

The present study is a quasi-experimentalstudy with pre-test-post-test design and follow-up with the controlgroup and using the selection of subjects in the experimental andcontrol groups. The statistical population of the present studyconsisted of all women with MS, members of the MS Associationof Tehran in the second half of 2020, who had a record andtheir disease was caused by MS. R. They were diagnosed as aspecialist and their type of disease was recurrent-progressive. Thesample of the present study was selected from 30 people bypurposive sampling method and randomly assigned to experimentalgroups(n=15) and control(n=15). The experimental group wasexposed to cognitive-behavioral therapy for 8 sessions of 1 anda half hours and no intervention was performed for the controlgroup. The research instruments included Schneider et al.'s(1991)Hope Scale Connor and Davidson(2003) and the Wells AnxietyThoughts Scale(1994). In this study, multivariate and univariateanalysis of covariance, repeated measures analysis of variancehave been used.

The results showed that cognitive-behavioral therapy iseffective in reducing anxiety thoughts, increasing resilience andlife expectancy in women with MS and depression inTehran(0.001).

suggested that cognitive-behavioral therapy be usedto reduce anxiety thoughts, increase resilience and life expectancyin women with MS and depression.