Rahele Fallah; Seyed Abolghasem Mehrinezhad; Mehrangiz Peyvastehgar; Mohammad Reza Sharbafchi
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Objective: This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of individual-online dignity therapy in reducing psychological distress in women with metastatic cancers. Method: It was a quasi-experimental study with a pre-test, post-test, follow-up design, and a control group, in block design. The statistical ...
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Objective: This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of individual-online dignity therapy in reducing psychological distress in women with metastatic cancers. Method: It was a quasi-experimental study with a pre-test, post-test, follow-up design, and a control group, in block design. The statistical population was women with metastatic cancers referred to the Iranian Cancer Control Institute (MACSA) in Tehran during the summer and autumn of 2020. Thirty women were selected by a convenience sampling method and then randomly assigned to two groups of 15 in experimental and control. It also blocked participants at three levels based on the palliative performance scale. Each participant's psychological distress was assessed using the depression-anxiety-stress scale. The experimental group participated in three individual online dignity therapy sessions, each 40-60 minutes. Data were analyzed by repeated-measures analysis of variance in SPSS-23. Findings: There was a significant decrease in the experimental groups’ psychological distress scores in the post-test and in follow-up (P≤0.01). Also, it was found that dignity therapy is more useful in lower levels of the palliative performance scale. Conclusion: Given the findings, it is recommended that psycho-oncologists and palliative care practitioners use online dignity therapy to reduce the psychological distress of women with metastatic cancer.
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kimia sahraian; MehrAngiz Peyvastegar; zohreh khosravi; mojtaba habibi
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Objective: The aim of this study is to compare cognitive rehabilitation and mixed treatment of cognitive rehabilitation with emotion regulation on quality of life in patients with HIV-associated Neurocognitive Disorder (HAND). Method: This study was a quasi-experimental research conducted in form of ...
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Objective: The aim of this study is to compare cognitive rehabilitation and mixed treatment of cognitive rehabilitation with emotion regulation on quality of life in patients with HIV-associated Neurocognitive Disorder (HAND). Method: This study was a quasi-experimental research conducted in form of pretest-posttest and follow-up, with two experimental groups. 46 HIV patients that had HIV-associated Neurocognitive Disorder, were selected and were included randomly in two experimental group (n=23). One experimental group administered a cognitive rehabilitation and another experimental group received both cognitive rehabilitation and emotion regulation. Participants completed the WHOQOL-HIV-BREF questionnaire in the pretest, posttest and follow-up assessment. The data were analyzed using ANOVA with repeated measure. Result: The results illustrate that the two groups differed at post-assessment. In particular, the experimental group 2 showed a remarkable improvement in WHOQOL-HIV-BREF. At the follow-up assessment, the experimental group 2 also showed more improvement than experimental group 1. However, there was a slight decrease in follow-up assessment in comparison to the post-assessment in both groups. Conclusion: The results showed that combination therapy of cognitive rehabilitation and emotion regulation is more effective than cognitive rehabilitation alone, in improving the quality of life of HIV patients with neurocognitive disorders (HAND).
