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Alireza Pirkhaefi; Morteza Rozbahani; Seyedeh Sara Rastgoo
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Objective: This research was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of Group Mindfulness-Based Cognitive-Therapy on somatic symptoms in patients with irritable bowel syndrome. Method: The present research was a semi-experimental and pre-test post-test design with follow-up period. The Statistical ...
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Objective: This research was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of Group Mindfulness-Based Cognitive-Therapy on somatic symptoms in patients with irritable bowel syndrome. Method: The present research was a semi-experimental and pre-test post-test design with follow-up period. The Statistical population of the study included all female patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders in Rasht city who referred to treatment clinics. For this study sample, 32 patients with irritable bowel syndrome were selected based on the Rome-II diagnostic criteria, by convenience sampling by gastroenterologists, assigned to mindfulness (16 patients) and control (16 patients) groups. Participants in the two groups were tested before the intervention, at the end of the intervention (two months after training) and two months later in the follow-up phase. The experimental group received 8 mindfulness sessions. The Rome-II diagnostic criterion was used to diagnose and evaluate the physical symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome disorder and used to a short form of psychological symptoms questionnaire to evaluate psychological symptoms. Data were analyzed using repeated measures analysis of variance.Result: The results showed that the average scores of physical symptoms in the experimental group were significantly lower than the control group in the post-test and follow-up stages.Conclusion: According to results, training of Group Mindfulness-Based Cognitive-Therapy helps to improve the level and severity of symptoms in patients with irritable bowel syndrome.
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Roghayeh Mirzazadeh; Alireza Pirkhaefi
Volume 6, Issue 21 , May 2017, , Pages 52-65
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The current research has aimed at investigating the effectiveness of clinical creativity therapy model on improving hope and happiness of the patients with cancer breast. Method:the method of this research has been quasi-experimental of pretest-posttest type with the presence of control group. The sample ...
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The current research has aimed at investigating the effectiveness of clinical creativity therapy model on improving hope and happiness of the patients with cancer breast. Method:the method of this research has been quasi-experimental of pretest-posttest type with the presence of control group. The sample of this research were selected as available Contains 30 patient, who had with breast cancer. Hope Schneider questionnaire and Oxford questionnaire were applied in order to measure their hope and happiness .For experimental group a period of 10 sessions of creativity therapy was held .Findings:covariance analysis showed that there was a significant difference in hope between experimental and control group And there was also a significant difference in happiness between the two groups .Results: The results showed that the clinical creativity therapy model was able to create a significant increase in hope and happiness of the Patients with breast cancer in experimental group in comparison with control group.Keywords: creativity therapy, hope, happiness, breast cancer.
