Vaziri S, Delavar A, Ghaemi F, Ahadi H. The Effectiveness of Stress Management Treatment on Emotional Regulation and Quality of Life of Patients with Covid-19. IJRN 2023; 10 (1) :62-73
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Professor of Evaluating and Measuring Department, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran ,Iran
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Introduction: according to the consequences of the covid-19 in the regulation of emotions and the quality of life of people in the community and the importance of stress management, the present study was conducted with the aim of determining the effectiveness of stress management treatment on the regulation of emotions and the quality of life of corona patients.
Methods: This was a semi-experimental study with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group and a follow-up period. The research population included all patients with covid-19 disease who referred to Tabriz specialized and sub-specialized recovery hospital in the fall of 2022, and the target sample included 30 people who recovered from corona, who were selected by available sampling method and randomly divided into two control groups and Tests were assigned. The experimental group received 8 90-minute sessions of stress management training for two months, and the control group did not receive training during this period and remained on the waiting list for training. The research tools include the Gross Emotional Regulation Gross & John (2003) and the quality of life of the World Health Organization (2000). Data analysis was done with SPSS software version 24 and variance analysis test with repeated measurements between groups.
Results: The results showed that there was a difference between the two experimental and control groups in the post-test of emotion regulation variables (p>0.001) and quality of life components (p>0.001), and the results were stable during the follow-up period (0.001 >p).
Conclusion: The results showed that stress management treatment was effective in improving emotional regulation and quality of life of patients with covid-19, therefore, health professionals can use the stress management training method along with other effective methods to improve the psychological characteristics related to covid-19.
Type of Study:
Research |
Subject:
Psychology in Rehabilitation Nursing Received: 2023/02/23 | Accepted: 2023/07/17 | Published: 2023/12/2