Comparison of the Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) on reduction of anxiety symptoms in patients with Generalized anxiety disorder during the outbreak of Covid-19

Aim and Background: Recent research has shown the prevalence of the Covid-19 epidemic in this regard The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) on reduction anxiety symptoms in patients with Generalized...

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Main Authors: Fatemeh Dinarvand, Saeed Bakhtiarpour, Alireza Heydarei
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Published: Armaqan Danesh Firoozeh 2022-01-01
Series:Taḥqīqāt-i ̒Ulūm-i Raftārī
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Online Access:http://rbs.mui.ac.ir/article-1-1186-en.html
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Saeed Bakhtiarpour
Alireza Heydarei
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description Aim and Background: Recent research has shown the prevalence of the Covid-19 epidemic in this regard The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) on reduction anxiety symptoms in patients with Generalized anxiety disorder in Dezful during the outbreak of Covid-19. Methods and Materials: The research was a pilot study with a pretest-post-test-follow-up with control group. The statistical population of this study was the All patients with generalized anxiety disorder referring to Dezful counseling centers 30 people were selected through targeted sampling and randomly assigned to two groups of experimental and control group. In all three groups, patients' anxiety disorder was assessed through the questionnaire of General Anxiety (GAD-7). The first group received cognitive-behavioral therapy in 8 sessions 60 minutes, and the second group in 8 sessions 60 minutes acceptance and commitment therapy, but the third group did not receive training. Then, the anxiety test was re-evaluated in all three groups. Given that the assumptions of covariance analysis were not met data were analyzed using one-way variance analysis and SPSS software. Findings: The findings of the study showed that cognitive-behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy could reduce the symptoms of anxiety in comparison with the control group (p <0.001) However, the difference between the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy on reduce the symptoms of anxiety was not significant (p> 0.05). Conclusions: It seems that both therapeutic approaches can be effective in treating the symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder.
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spelling doaj.art-36f7bdb28dda4a97b5f6f81169ec66f82023-09-03T14:14:54ZfasArmaqan Danesh FiroozehTaḥqīqāt-i ̒Ulūm-i Raftārī1735-20292008-82482022-01-01194590600Comparison of the Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) on reduction of anxiety symptoms in patients with Generalized anxiety disorder during the outbreak of Covid-19Fatemeh Dinarvand0Saeed Bakhtiarpour1Alireza Heydarei2 Department of Psychology, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran Department of Psychology, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran Department of Psychology, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran Aim and Background: Recent research has shown the prevalence of the Covid-19 epidemic in this regard The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) on reduction anxiety symptoms in patients with Generalized anxiety disorder in Dezful during the outbreak of Covid-19. Methods and Materials: The research was a pilot study with a pretest-post-test-follow-up with control group. The statistical population of this study was the All patients with generalized anxiety disorder referring to Dezful counseling centers 30 people were selected through targeted sampling and randomly assigned to two groups of experimental and control group. In all three groups, patients' anxiety disorder was assessed through the questionnaire of General Anxiety (GAD-7). The first group received cognitive-behavioral therapy in 8 sessions 60 minutes, and the second group in 8 sessions 60 minutes acceptance and commitment therapy, but the third group did not receive training. Then, the anxiety test was re-evaluated in all three groups. Given that the assumptions of covariance analysis were not met data were analyzed using one-way variance analysis and SPSS software. Findings: The findings of the study showed that cognitive-behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy could reduce the symptoms of anxiety in comparison with the control group (p <0.001) However, the difference between the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy on reduce the symptoms of anxiety was not significant (p> 0.05). Conclusions: It seems that both therapeutic approaches can be effective in treating the symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder.http://rbs.mui.ac.ir/article-1-1186-en.htmlcognitive-behavioral therapyacceptance and commitment based therapygeneralized anxiety disordercovid-19
spellingShingle Fatemeh Dinarvand
Saeed Bakhtiarpour
Alireza Heydarei
Comparison of the Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) on reduction of anxiety symptoms in patients with Generalized anxiety disorder during the outbreak of Covid-19
Taḥqīqāt-i ̒Ulūm-i Raftārī
cognitive-behavioral therapy
acceptance and commitment based therapy
generalized anxiety disorder
covid-19
title Comparison of the Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) on reduction of anxiety symptoms in patients with Generalized anxiety disorder during the outbreak of Covid-19
title_full Comparison of the Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) on reduction of anxiety symptoms in patients with Generalized anxiety disorder during the outbreak of Covid-19
title_fullStr Comparison of the Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) on reduction of anxiety symptoms in patients with Generalized anxiety disorder during the outbreak of Covid-19
title_full_unstemmed Comparison of the Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) on reduction of anxiety symptoms in patients with Generalized anxiety disorder during the outbreak of Covid-19
title_short Comparison of the Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) on reduction of anxiety symptoms in patients with Generalized anxiety disorder during the outbreak of Covid-19
title_sort comparison of the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy cbt and acceptance and commitment therapy act on reduction of anxiety symptoms in patients with generalized anxiety disorder during the outbreak of covid 19
topic cognitive-behavioral therapy
acceptance and commitment based therapy
generalized anxiety disorder
covid-19
url http://rbs.mui.ac.ir/article-1-1186-en.html
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