anxiety

Pregnancy is a major event in a woman's life that is associated with conflicting emotions, joy, and anxiety. Objectives: The present study was conducted to assess the effect of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy(ACT) on women's anxiety and quality of life during pregnancy. Methods: This randomized clinical trial was conducted in 2016 on pregnant women presenting to health centers in Arak, Iran. First, eligible women were identified by referring to the health centers. Sampling was done conveniently after obtaining informed consent.

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy on reducing anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder in women affected by spousal extramarital relationships.

Background and Objective: General anxiety disorder (GAD) is the most prevalent chronic anxiety disorders in clinical centers and general population. There are several treatment methods for this disorder that have different challenges ,for example cognitive-behavior therapy is selective treatment for anxiety disorders but it is not improvement and has not patients efficiency in general anxiety disorder. Furthermore, study on the effectiveness of new treatment called third wave that include behavioral and cognitive interventions (known as post modernism), seem necessary in treatment of general anxiety disorder.

Background: Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) is a widespread disease all over the world that has caused many psychological complications such as health anxiety (HA) and low quality of life (QOL). Mindfulness-based approaches could improve these complications. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effect of Internet-delivered mindfulness stress reduction combined with acceptance and commitment therapy (IMSR-ACT) on QOL and HA of caregivers of patients infected by COVID-19.

Objective

To investigate the effect of acceptance commitment therapy in reducing the fear of cancer recurrence in patients with oral cancer recurrence. 

Methods

A total of 63 patients with oral cancer recurrence were divided into control group (32 cases) and intervention group (31 cases) according to the length of hospitalization. The control group received routine nursing, and the intervention group constructed and gave the fear of cancer recurrence to patients with oral cancer recurrence on the basis of the control group based on the theory of acceptance commitment therapy. 

Results

Family dementia caregiving has been commonly associated with psycholo

Background: Behavioral activation (BA) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) are considered particularly useful treatments when dealing with emotional problems of cancer survivors. The efficacy of these two treatments, applied on a group basis, were evaluated and compared.

Method: An analysis was carried out of pre-post treatment changes in the emotional state and patterns of activation/avoidance of 52 cancer patients, with anxiety and/or depression, randomly assigned to three groups (BA/ACT/waiting list control).