Fazeli Kebria, M., Hassanzadeh, R., Mirzaeian, B., & Khajevand Khosheli, A. (2018). The Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Group Therapy on Psychological Capital in Cardiovascular Patients in Babol. The Journal of Babol University of Medical Sciences (JBUMS), 20(4), 68-73. https://doi.org/10.18869/acadpub.jbums.20.4.68
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Psychological capital is one of the positive psychological indices that is defined by the characteristics of optimism, perseverance, positive self-efficacy, and tolerance. This study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment group therapy on psychological capital in cardiovascular patients in Babol.
METHODS: This cross-sectional study was performed among 24 cardiovascular patients who referred to governmental and non-governmental medical centers of Babol in two groups of 12 based on pretest-posttest design. The therapy based on acceptance and commitment was performed for the experimental group in 8 sessions. Participants were re-evaluated one month after the sessions, and psychological capital was evaluated according to self-efficacy, hope, tolerance and optimism subscales.
FINDINGS: The results of the study showed that there was a significant difference between the subscales of the psychological capital in the experimental and control groups in tolerance (3.53±0.48 vs. 2.88±0.67) (p<120.07), hope (4±0.51 vs. 3.05±0.49) (p<59.820), self-efficacy (3.58±0.54 vs. 3.25±0.59) (p>6.03) and optimism (40.6±0.56 vs. 2.94±0.66) (p>26.459).
CONCLUSION: The present study showed that acceptance and commitment therapy could be considered as an effective intervention in increasing the psychological capital of cardiovascular patients.