Comparing the Effectiveness of Family Resilience Training, with Cognitive-Spiritual Hope Training, on Compassion Fatigue and Distress Tolerance in Caregivers of Renal Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis

Kidney diseases are one of the physical diseasesthat make a person and his lifestyle face various problemsthat unintentionally involve their families and requiretheir special care, which can affect the mental state of thecaregiver. to damage The aim of this study was tocompare the effectiveness of family resilience trainingwith cognitive-spiritual hope training on compassionfatigue and distress tolerance in caregivers of kidneypatients undergoing hemodialysis.

The research method was anexperimental type with two experimental and controlgroups with a pre-test and post-test design and a 45-dayfollow-up. Research 60 caregivers were selected throughavailable sampling and were randomly divided into threegroups of 20 people, the people participating in theresearch in three stages to the compassion fatiguequestionnaire (Khosravi et al., 2021) and Simmonsquestionnaire. and Gaher (2005) answered, the collecteddata were analyzed at two levels of descriptive statistics(mean and standard deviation) and inferential variancestatistics with repeated measurements and Bonferroni'spost hoc test. SPSS version 24 software was used for dataanalysis.

Data analysis showed that teaching hope in acognitive-spiritual way on compassion fatigue (F = 16.75,P < 0.01) and distress tolerance (F = 6.86, P < 0.01) hashad a significant impact and there was no significantdifference in terms of effectiveness.

According to the findings of the presentstudy, it is possible to use cognitive-spiritual hopetraining and family resilience training to reducecompassion fatigue and increase distress tolerance incaregivers of kidney patients undergoing hemodialysis.