نوع مقاله : مقاله های پژوهشی
نویسندگان
1 دانشجوی دکتری گروه روانشناسی، واحد اصفهان (خوراسگان)، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، اصفهان، ایران
2 دانشیار، گروه روانشناسی بالینی، مرکز تحقیقات سلامت جامعه، واحد اصفهان (خوراسگان)، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، اصفهان، ایران
3 دانشیار، گروه روانشناسی، مرکز تحقیقات سلامت جامعه، واحد اصفهان (خوراسگان)، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، اصفهان، ایران
4 استاد، گروه روانپزشکی، دانشکده پزشکی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی اصفهان، اصفهان، ایران
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عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسندگان [English]
Background: The high prevalence of dementia worldwide and its assosiated psychological consequences, including caregiving burden and compassion fatigue, puts the mental health of their caregivers at risk. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of emotion efficacy therapy on caregiving burden and compassion fatigue in caregivers of patients with dementia.
Methods: This was a semi-experimental research of pre-test-post-test type with a control group, which was conducted in 2022 among caregivers of dementia patients referred to neurology clinics in Isfahan city. Thirty participants were selected through purposeful sampling, based on inclusion and exclusion criteria and randomly assigned to either the experimental or control group. The experimental group received eight weekly 90-minute sessions of emotional efficiency therapy. The research tool was Zarit's burden of care and Stamm's professional life quality questionnaires. After analyzing the data, it was done with repeated measures variance analysis.
Findings: The effect of EET on reducing caregiving burden and compassion fatigue in the post-test is 16.1% and 17.4%, respectively. The effect of EET on caregiving burden and compassion fatigue variables in the follow-up phase is 15.2% and 15.6%, respectively. The difference between the two groups is not significant in the pre-test stage, but in the post-test and follow-up stages, a significant difference has been obtained between the control group and the test in both variables.
Conclusion: Emotion efficacy therapy significantly reduces caregiving burden and compassion fatigue in caregivers of patients with dementia.
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