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Prediction of Quality of Life based on Psychological Flexibility in Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Shilla Shahbazi Bandani 1
hamid atashpour 2

1 Master's student in General Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan Branch (Khorasgan), Isfahan, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Counseling, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan Branch (Khorasgan)

Abstract
The present study was conducted with the aim of predicting the quality of life based on psychological flexibility in irritable bowel syndrome patients and using a correlational descriptive method. The statistical population of the study consisted of all patients with irritable bowel syndrome in Isfahan, numbering 230 people; In the present study, 140 people were selected using the table of Karjesi and Morgan (1970) by available sampling method. To collect information, two quality of life questionnaires of Patrick and Drasman (1998) with 34 items, and the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire 2nd edition of Bund and colleagues (2011) with 7 items on a five-point Likert scale were used. The content and form validity of the questionnaires were confirmed by a number of experts and their reliability was obtained using Cronbach's alpha coefficient (0.862) and (0.812) respectively. Based on the results of step-by-step regression analysis, the relationship between cognitive flexibility and quality of life has been significant. Based on this, the coefficient of cognitive flexibility explains 9.3% of the variance of the quality of life; Also, the beta coefficient increases the quality of life by 0.305 units per one unit increase in cognitive flexibility.

Keywords

Quality Of Life
Psychological Flexibility
Irritable Bowel Syndrome Patients  
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