Efficacy Of Unified Trans-Diagnostic Treatment On The Self-Efficacy Perceived And Self-Care Behaviors Of People With Coronary Heart Disease

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 PhD Student in Health Psychology, UAE Branch, Islamic Azad University, Dubai, UAE.

2 Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran.

3 Professor, Department of Psychology, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Introduction and purpose: The occurrence of chronic diseases causes damage to the mental and emotional health of people. according to this the present study was conducted to investigate the efficacy of unified trans-diagnostic treatment on the self-efficacy perceived and self-care behaviors of people with coronary heart disease.
Methodology: The present study was quasi-experimental with pretest, posttest, control group and two-month follow-up period design. The statistical population of this study included patients with coronary heart disease referred to the heart center of Madain Hospital in Tehran in the second half of 2020. The statistical population included patients with coronary heart disease referred to the heart center of Madayen Hospital in Tehran in the second half of 2020. 34 Patient with coronary heart disease were selected through voluntarily and purposive sampling method and randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups (18 patients in the experimental group and 16 patients in the control group). The experimental group received ten seventy-five-minute sessions of unified trans-diagnostic treatment during One and a half months. The applied questionnaires in this study included self-efficacy questionnaire (Sherer et al, 1982) and Self-Care Questionnaire (Galiana et al, 2015). The data from the study were analyzed through repeated Mixed ANOVA via SPSS23 statistical software.
Findings: The results showed that unified trans-diagnostic treatment has significant effect on the self-efficacy (F=34.07; Eta=0.51; P<0001) and self-care behaviors (F=72.83; Eta=0.67; P<0001) of the cardiac people with coronary heart disease.

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