1- Master of General Psychology, Quds Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
2- Master of Counseling and Guidance, Azad-Rodhan University (Faculty of Educational Sciences), Tehran, Iran
3- Professor of the Department of Psychology at the Hozah and University Research Institute, Tehran, Iran.
2- Master of Counseling and Guidance, Azad-Rodhan University (Faculty of Educational Sciences), Tehran, Iran
3- Professor of the Department of Psychology at the Hozah and University Research Institute, Tehran, Iran.
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Background and purpose: Obsessive-compulsive disorder is diagnosed based on the presence of unwanted and disturbing thoughts and repetitive behaviors. One of the treatments whose effectiveness has been confirmed in psychological disorders is cognitive-analytical therapy. The aim of the present study was the effectiveness of the cognitive-analytical intervention of group-based treatment of obsessions on guilt and personality functioning in people with obsessive-compulsive symptoms.
Research method: The method of this research is a semi-experimental type with a pre-test-post-test design with two experimental groups and one control group. The statistical population of the current research is all people suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder who referred to Talieh Salamat Clinic in Tehran in the year 1400. In this research, due to the lack of easy access, available sampling method was used. In this way, 30 people were selected from among the statistical population and randomly divided into two experimental groups and control group (each group includes 15 people). Then both groups responded to the guilt questionnaires of Kugler and Jones (1992) and the personality function of John Gergi et al. (1401). After that, the obsession treatment intervention was implemented on the experimental group and the control group was not subjected to any treatment program. At the end, the post-test was done again from both groups. Also, after the end of the research, in order to maintain the ethical standards in the research, the treatment programs implemented in this research were also implemented on the control group. The criteria for entering the research include 1- suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder, 2- at least a diploma level of education, 3- not participating in other therapeutic interventions at the same time, 4- not suffering from another psychological disease at the same time, and the criteria for exiting the research also include 1- absence of more than Out of three sessions, 2- it was non-observance of group therapy rules. Data analysis was carried out in two parts: descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. At the level of descriptive statistics, frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation were used, and at the level of inferential statistics, multivariate covariance analysis was used. Data analysis was done in SPSS software version 24 and the significance level of the tests was considered to be 0.05.
Findings: The Kolmogorov-Smirnov test in order to check the status of the distribution of the collected data in terms of their normality or not, showed that the assumption of normality of the data distribution is confirmed for all the studied subscales. Therefore, the collected data are normal and the use of parametric tests is possible. Also, the parallelism of the regression slopes was confirmed. The results of the Mbox test also indicated the assumption of homogeneity of variance-covariance matrices. The assumption of homogeneity of variances in research variables was also confirmed by Levine's test. Therefore, all assumptions of univariate covariance analysis were established and this test was used to analyze the data. Also, the findings showed that the cognitive-analytical intervention of obsessive-compulsive treatment improves guilt scores and personality functioning in people with obsessive-compulsive symptoms (P<0.001).
Conclusion: It seems that the intervention of obsession treatment with a cognitive-analytical approach can reduce the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder and its accompanying symptoms. Therefore, it is recommended that researchers and therapists use this method for their patients.
Research method: The method of this research is a semi-experimental type with a pre-test-post-test design with two experimental groups and one control group. The statistical population of the current research is all people suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder who referred to Talieh Salamat Clinic in Tehran in the year 1400. In this research, due to the lack of easy access, available sampling method was used. In this way, 30 people were selected from among the statistical population and randomly divided into two experimental groups and control group (each group includes 15 people). Then both groups responded to the guilt questionnaires of Kugler and Jones (1992) and the personality function of John Gergi et al. (1401). After that, the obsession treatment intervention was implemented on the experimental group and the control group was not subjected to any treatment program. At the end, the post-test was done again from both groups. Also, after the end of the research, in order to maintain the ethical standards in the research, the treatment programs implemented in this research were also implemented on the control group. The criteria for entering the research include 1- suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder, 2- at least a diploma level of education, 3- not participating in other therapeutic interventions at the same time, 4- not suffering from another psychological disease at the same time, and the criteria for exiting the research also include 1- absence of more than Out of three sessions, 2- it was non-observance of group therapy rules. Data analysis was carried out in two parts: descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. At the level of descriptive statistics, frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation were used, and at the level of inferential statistics, multivariate covariance analysis was used. Data analysis was done in SPSS software version 24 and the significance level of the tests was considered to be 0.05.
Findings: The Kolmogorov-Smirnov test in order to check the status of the distribution of the collected data in terms of their normality or not, showed that the assumption of normality of the data distribution is confirmed for all the studied subscales. Therefore, the collected data are normal and the use of parametric tests is possible. Also, the parallelism of the regression slopes was confirmed. The results of the Mbox test also indicated the assumption of homogeneity of variance-covariance matrices. The assumption of homogeneity of variances in research variables was also confirmed by Levine's test. Therefore, all assumptions of univariate covariance analysis were established and this test was used to analyze the data. Also, the findings showed that the cognitive-analytical intervention of obsessive-compulsive treatment improves guilt scores and personality functioning in people with obsessive-compulsive symptoms (P<0.001).
Conclusion: It seems that the intervention of obsession treatment with a cognitive-analytical approach can reduce the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder and its accompanying symptoms. Therefore, it is recommended that researchers and therapists use this method for their patients.
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