The Effectiveness of Islamic Therapeutic Spirituality with SIT on Emotional Dysfunction and Pain Self-Efficacy in Gastric Cancer Patients of Ardabil, Iran, in 2022

Stomach cancer is the fourth most common cancer in the world and the second cause of cancer death. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to determine and compare the effectiveness of Islamic therapeutic spirituality with SIT on emotional dysfunction and pain self-efficacy in gastric cancer patients of Ardabi, Iran.

The present study was semi-experimental using the pre-test-post-test method with a control group, which was conducted in 2022. The statistical population included patients with stomach cancer in Ardabil city, Imam Khomeini Hospital and Shafa Parto Chemotherapy Center in Ardabil city in chemotherapy stage. 60 people were selected as available and were randomly divided into three groups (two experimental groups and one control group). The measurement tool in this research was the Toronto Emotional Dysfunction Scale, the Bandura Pain Self-Efficacy Questionnaire. which was examined in three groups before the group intervention and at the end of the 10th session. The first test group was exposed to Islamic spiritual therapy, and the second test group was exposed to cognitive-behavioral therapy based on immunization training. received SIT and the control group did not receive any psychological treatment. The collected data were analyzed using statistical tests of covariance and its assumptions (Kalmogorov Smirnov and Shapiro-Wilks test and Levin test), post hoc Bonferroni test.

The results of multivariate covariance analysis indicated that the spirituality of Islamic therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy based on stress immunity training (SIT), both on emotional dysfunction and pain self-efficacy have a significant effectiveness compared to the control group, but the spiritual method of Islamic therapy compared to the cognitive-behavioral therapy group Re is based on immunization training in emotional failure (F=11.058) and pain self-efficacy (F=32.050), the effect of trust (P≤0.01).

 Considering the available findings, it seemed that SIT, despite emphasizing irrational thoughts, replacing them with efficient cognitions, and equipping the patient with a complete treasure of skills was less effective than Islamic therapeutic spirituality in reducing negative thoughts in stomach cancer patients. Therefore, these psychological interventions can be important and have clinical applications as an independent or complementary approach along with drug treatments in gastric cancer patients. Therefore, it is possible to take practical action by teaching Islamic spiritual therapy to improve their emotional inadequacy and self-efficacy.