نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
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1 کارشناس ارشد، گروه روان شناسی، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد اصفهان (خوراسگان)، اصفهان، ایران.
2 استادیار، گروه روانشناسی بالینی، دانشکده علوم تربیتی و روانشناسی، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد اصفهان (خوراسگان)، اصفهان، ایران.
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نویسندگان [English]
Introduction: Breast cancer psychologically affects women more than other cancers. Further, it is the most common cause of cancer deaths in women. The present study aims to determine the effect of behavioral therapy on rumination and pain-related anxiety in women with breast cancer.
Materials and method: This research was a semi-experimental posttest-pretest control group design with a 45-days follow-up. For this purpose, among women with breast cancer referred to cancer clinics of Isfahan in the spring of 2018, 24 people were selected by the convenience sampling method and randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups (12 in each). The participants responded to the questionnaires of the rumination (Nullen et al.) and the pain-associated anxiety (McCraken et al.). Subjects in the experimental group received behavioral activation therapy in 8 sessions of 90 minutes once a week.
Results: Results of variance analysis for repeated measures showed that the interaction of time effect and group membership in rumination and anxiety dimensions related to pain was significant (p < 0.05(. The results also showed a significant difference between behavioral activation therapy and control group in research variables in both posttest (except for posttest of physiological symptoms) and follow-up (p < 0.05(.
Conclusion: According to this research results, behavioral activation therapy can be used to improve pain-related psychological variables in people with breast cancer.
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