Hiva Mahmoodi; zahra karbalaee bagheri
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Objective: Cancer crises cause imbalance of mind and body, but most of the time for the patient is a feeling of despair and hopelessness. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy on the hope and belief in a just world in patients with breast cancer. ...
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Objective: Cancer crises cause imbalance of mind and body, but most of the time for the patient is a feeling of despair and hopelessness. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy on the hope and belief in a just world in patients with breast cancer. Method: The quasi-experimental research method was pretest-posttest design with control group. The population of the study included all women with breast cancer in Tehran. 40 of them were selected by convenience sampling. They were then randomly assigned to the control and experimental groups. The data collection tools included Adel Robin and Pplawprenham (2003) Belief in World Question and Herth Life Expectancy Questionnaire. Data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of covariance. Findings: The results showed a steady increase in the scores of the Hope and Belief in a Fair World Scale for Patients with Breast Cancer, indicating the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy in increasing these variables. Conclusion: Disappointment plays a predisposing, accelerating, and persistent role in cancer, and acceptance and commitment therapy can play an important role as adjunctive and rehabilitative therapies alongside medical treatments.
Reza Shabahang; farzin bagheri sheykhangafshe; Marzieh Shahryari Sarhadi; Adeleh Yousefi Siahkoucheh; Vahid Hajialiani
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Objective: Physical illnesses such as cancer, in addition to negative consequences, can also have positive outcomes that are known as positive consequence of illness. The aim of this study was to compare hope and prosocial behavior intentions in different levels of positive consequences of cancer illness. ...
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Objective: Physical illnesses such as cancer, in addition to negative consequences, can also have positive outcomes that are known as positive consequence of illness. The aim of this study was to compare hope and prosocial behavior intentions in different levels of positive consequences of cancer illness. Method: In this causal-comparative study, the population of the study consisted of cancer patients in hospitals in Rasht city (District 1) in 2019, of which 200 patients were selected by convenience sampling. For collecting data, Silver Lining Questionnaire (Sodergren & Hyland, 2000), Hope Scale (Snyder et al., 1991), and Prosocial Behavioral Intention Scale (Baumsteiger & Siegel, 2019) were used. Finally, the data were analyzed by multiple analysis of variance method. Findings: The group of cancer patients with high level of positive consequences of illness got higher scores in hope and prosocial behavior intentions in comparison to group of cancer patients with low level of positive consequences of illness. Conclusion: According to the findings, the group of cancer patients with high level of positive consequences of illness have higher hope and intentions for prosocial behaviors. Hence, providing interventions to increase the positive consequences of cancer can lead to increased hope and prosocial behavior intentions.
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Jahansha Mohamadzadeh; Zeinab sadat Hoseini
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Objective: This study aimed to investigate the effect of Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy on enhancement of hope and happiness in patients with cancer. Method: The research method was semi-experimental with pre-test, post-test and control group design. The population of the study consisted ...
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Objective: This study aimed to investigate the effect of Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy on enhancement of hope and happiness in patients with cancer. Method: The research method was semi-experimental with pre-test, post-test and control group design. The population of the study consisted of all people diagnosed with cancer who visited the Radiotherapy Center of Imam Reza Hospital in Kermanshah in 2016. 30 members of the population were selected through purposive sampling, and were then randomly assigned into two 15-member groups (experimental and control group). The Schneider's hope questionnaire and Oxford happiness inventory were used for data collection purposes in pre-test and post-test. Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy was performed on the experimental group twice a week in 20 sixty-minute sessions, while the control group to receive the intervention. Results: The findings of multivariate covariance analysis obtained from pre-treatment and treatment scores after the pre-test and post-test showed a significant difference between the experimental and control groups in terms of hope (P= 0/006, F= 88/93) and happiness (P= 0/01, F= 89/23). Conclusion: According to the findings of this study, it can be mentioned that Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy increase hope and happiness in cancer patients and it can be used as an efficient method. and it can be used as an efficient method.
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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.
