The Effectiveness of Positive Psychotherapy The Depression, Anxiety and Stress Of women with breast cancer

Subject Areas : Woman and family

Eshrat Karimi Afshar ¹ , Mohammad Karamooz ²

1 - Assistant Professor, Department of General Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Sirjan Branch, Sirjan, Iran. Email: [e-mail]
2 - M.Sc. in General Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Sirjan Branch, Sirjan, Iran

Received: 2021-06-21 Accepted : 2021-10-25 Published : 2022-11-22

Keywords: Depression, Women, breast cancer, Stress, anxiety, Positive Psychotherapy,

Abstract :

Depression, anxiety and stress disorders are among the most common psychiatric disorders that have increased critically among women with breast cancer. This study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of positive group psychotherapy on reducing depression, anxiety and stress in women with breast cancer in Kerman.  The method of this research was quasi-experimental and pre-test-post-test with control group. The statistical population of the present study consisted of all women with breast cancer in Kerman. The sample consisted of 30 people who were selected by purposive sampling method and randomly divided into experimental (n = 15) and control (n = 15) groups and Responded to the … to the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Questionnaire. (1995) before and after the intervention.The experimental group underwent positive group psychotherapy for 8 sessions of 80 minutes (once a week) and the control group did not receive any intervention. Subjects' scores were analyzed using analysis of covariance. The results showed that in the post-test stage, the mean scores of depressions, anxiety and stress in the experimental group decreased significantly compared to the control group (P <0.001). According to the research findings, it can be concluded that positive psychotherapy can be used as an intervention to modulate depression,anxiety and stress

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