narges raoofi adegani; Ilnaz Sajjadian; nahid reisi dehkordi
Abstract
Objective: The occurrence of particular diseases, such as cancer in children, causes severe damage to the mental health of mothers. This research aimed to investigate the effectiveness of compassion-focused therapy on self-care and compassion fatigue in mothers ...
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Objective: The occurrence of particular diseases, such as cancer in children, causes severe damage to the mental health of mothers. This research aimed to investigate the effectiveness of compassion-focused therapy on self-care and compassion fatigue in mothers of children with cancer. Method: The research method was quasi-experimental with a pretest, post-test, control group, and 45-day follow-up design. The sample size in the study was 25 mothers of children with cancer who were selected from those referred to Omid Educational Therapeutic Center in Isfahan 2018 through a convenient sampling method and were randomly replaced into experimental and control groups (12 mothers in the experimental and 13 mothers in the control group). The experimental group received eight ninety-minute compassion-therapy intervention sessions over 75 days once a week, while the control group didn't receive any intervention during the study. The instruments research included a self-care questionnaire (Galina et al., 2015) and a professional life quality questionnaire (Stam, 2005). Findings: The results of ANCOVA showed that compassion-focused therapy influenced self-care and compassion fatigue in the mothers of children with cancer in post-test and follow-up significantly (p<0.001). Conclusion: Based on the present research findings, compassion-focused therapy is suggested to be an effective method to improve self-care and reduce compassion fatigue in mothers of children with cancer
