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Comparison of the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment-based therapy and emotion-focused cognitive therapy on psychological well-being of people with cardiac arrhythmia
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Negar Akbari Zargar1   , Seyed Abbas Haghayegh *2 , Saeed Jahanian3 , Sheida Jabalameli4 |
1- Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran
2- Department of Psychology, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran , abbas_haghayegh@yahoo.com
3- Department of Psychology, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
4- Department of Psychology, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran |
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Abstract
Aim. The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of acceptance-based therapy and emotion-based cognitive therapy on psychological well-being of patients with cardiac arrhythmia.
Background. The study of heart disease has long been noted by psychological factors because an individual with cardiac arrhythmias may suffer from mental well-being.
Method. This was a quasi-experimental study and to collect the data, a pre-test-post-test design with two experimental and one control group was used. The statistical population of the study consisted of all cardiac arrhythmia patients of Amirabad Heart Hospital in Tehran, out of which 60 people were selected by convenience sampling method and randomly divided into two experimental groups (20 people in each group) and one control group (20). The tools used in the present study included mental well-being (Reef, 1995), which were used in two stages of pre-test and post-test.
Findings. According to the findings, the mean score of psychological well-being in both experimental groups (acceptance-based therapy and emotion-based cognitive therapy) increased in the post-test stage compared to the pre-test, and these interventions increased the score of psychological well-being components in patients with heart arrhythmia compared to control group.
Conclusion. Clinicians can use these interventions (acceptance-based therapy and emotion-based cognitive therapy) in patients with cardiac arrhythmias to promote psychological well-being and recovery. |
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| Keywords: psychological well-being, acceptance and commitment-based therapy, Emotion-focused cognitive therapy, cardiac arrhythmia |
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Cardiovascular
Received: 2021/09/12 | Accepted: 2022/01/10 | Published: 2022/03/09 | ePublished: 2022/03/09
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