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Aliakbari A, Jajarmi M, Ghasemi Motlagh M. The Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy on the Hope and Psychological Well-Being of Veterans' Wives. MEJDS 2022; 12 :111-111
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The Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy on the Hope and Psychological Well-Being of Veterans' Wives
Ali Aliakbari1 , Mahmuod Jajarmi *1 , Mehdi Ghasemi Motlagh1
1- Department of Psychology, Bojnourd Branch, Islamic Azad University
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Background & Objectives: Veterans' problems in daily life have a great impact on their families, while families are expected to provide all the support they need. However, these psychological problems disrupt daily life and, in other words, functional, social, occupational, and behavioral activities. Mental disorders not only affect the quality of life of people with the disease but also, as a stressor, threaten the quality of life of the affected family members, including their spouses. Wives of war veterans suffer from isolation, loneliness, alienation, low self–esteem, helplessness, guilt, and depression. Hope is one of the factors that can positively affect improving the lives of veterans' wives. Another variable that can positively affect and improve the lives of veterans' wives is psychological well–being. Addressing the methods of improving the quality of life of the wives of war veterans is one of the essential factors in promoting mental health and quality of life. So, this study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy on the hope and psychological well–being of devoted wives of veterans living in Sari City, Iran.
Methods: The present research is a quasi–experimental study with a pretest–posttest with a 45–day follow–up design and a control group. The study's statistical population consisted of all the spouses of veterans (120 in total) who were referred to the veteran counseling clinic. Thirty wives of veterans were selected based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria and assigned into two groups: experimental (15 people) and control (15 people). The inclusion criteria were being the veteran's wife with an ID card of the martyrs, having a history of at least 20 years of living together, having ≥25% casualties, being able to attend eight training sessions, lacking a history of attending a workshop or training class, being 40 to 50 years old, gaining a score of less than 96 on the Hope Scale (Miller & Powers, 1988) and less than 42 on the Ryff Psychological Well–Being Scale (Ryff, 1989). The exclusion criteria included dissatisfaction with the educational method and the inability to attend eight training sessions. The experimental group underwent acceptance and commitment therapy in eight 90–min sessions weekly. The control group received no intervention. The study participants completed Ryff Psychological Well–Being Scale (Ryff, 1989) and the Hope Scale (Miller & Powers, 1988) in the pretest, posttest, and follow–up sessions. For data analysis, descriptive statistics (central indicators and dispersion such as mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (repeated measures analysis of variance and Bonferroni post hoc test) were used. The statistical analyses were performed in SPSS software version 22. The significance level of the tests was considered 0.05.
Results: Findings showed the significant effects of time, group, and time* group interaction on the variables of hope (p<0.001) and psychological well–being (p<0.001). Also, in the experimental group, the mean scores of hope and psychological well–being in the posttest and follow–up stages were significantly higher than those in the pretest (p<0.001). There was no significant difference between the two stages of posttest and follow–up in the variables of hope (p=0.495) and psychological well–being (p=0.386) in the experimental group.
Conclusion: Based on the study results, acceptance and commitment therapy is a suitable therapeutic approach to increase hope and improve the psychological well–being of veterans' wives.

Keywords: Acceptance and commitment therapy, Hope, Psychological well–being, Veterans' wives
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