Efficacy of Positive psychotherapy on the Health Anxiety and Cognitive fusion in the Women with the Covid 19 Pandemic Anxiety

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Master of Counseling, Islamic Azad University, Yazd Branch, Yazd, Iran.

2 Master of Counseling, Islamic Azad University, Khomeini Shahr Branch, Isfahan, Iran.

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Introduction and purpose: Covid-19 pandemic causes psychological and emotional turbulence and emergence of anxiety in many people in the society. Therefore, the present study was conducted to investigate the efficacy of Positive psychotherapy on the health anxiety and cognitive fusion in the women with the Covid-19 pandemic anxiety.
Material and methods: the present study was quasi-experimental with pretest, posttest and control group design and two-month follow-up stage. The statistical population of the present study included the women with Covid-19 pandemic anxiety in the city of Isfahan in the second six months of 2020. 32 women with Covid-19 anxiety were selected through purposive sampling method and were randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups (each group of 32 women). The experimental group received eigh seventy-five-minute positive psychotherapy sessions online (Barlo et.al, 2011). The applied questionnaires in this study included Covid-19 anxiety questionnaire (Ali Pour et.al, 2019), health anxiety questionnaire (Salkovskis, Warwick, 2002 and cognitive fusion questionnaire (Gillanders et al, 2010). The data from the study were analyzed through repeated measurement ANOVA and Bonferroni post hoc test.
Findings: the results showed that the Positive psychotherapy has significant effect on the health anxiety and cognitive fusion of the women with the Covid-19 pandemic anxiety (p<0.001) and succeeded in the reduce health anxiety and cognitive fusion in these women.

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medical journal of mashhad university of medical sciences
Volume 67, Issue 3
May and June 2024

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