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Investigating the effectiveness of the acceptance and commitment intervention with a positivity approach on disease acceptance and coping self-efficacy in patients with MS

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Roya Buick 1
Mahtab Moraveji 2

1 Master's student in clinical psychology, Islamic Azad University, Kish International Branch

2 Assisstant professor, Department of Nursing, school of Nursing and Midwifery, zanjan Branch, Islamic Azad university, Zanjan, Iran

Abstract
The aim of the present study was to study the effectiveness of the acceptance and commitment intervention with a positive approach to disease acceptance and coping self-efficacy in patients with MS. The current study was a semi-experimental pre-test-post-test with a control group. The current research was semi-experimental and in the form of a pre-test-post-test research design with a control group. The statistical population of this research includes all patients with MS in Mashhad who visited the neurology clinic of Eastern Iran in 1402. The sample size included 30 patients with MS who were selected by purposeful sampling, then randomly divided into 2 groups of 15 people, experimental and control. A disease acceptance questionnaire and coping self-efficacy questionnaire were used as research tools. Based on the analysis of covariance in SPSS software, it was found that the intervention of acceptance and commitment with a positive approach to disease acceptance and coping self-efficacy in patients with MS is effective (P<0.05).

Keywords

acceptance and commitment therapy
positive approach
disease acceptance
coping self-efficacy
MS

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