Evaluation of the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral group counseling on premenopausal women's anxiety

Determine the effectiveness of group counseling, cognitive - behavioral anxiety premenopausal women

In this study, 60 women from 40 to 60 years of age with pre-menopausal women who come to Imam Musa Kazem's health center are selected. the participants were randomly divided into two intervention and control groups and each person Blocks were assigned.

The location of the study is Imam Musa Kazem's health center. In this study, participants and information analyst are those who are blind. Participants were unaware of the nature of the control or intervention of Groups A and B. The information processor was also unaware of the subject matter of the codes.

Women aged 45-60 years The emergence of symptoms of menopause or complete menopause Having diploma degree Passing for at least 6 months from the onset of anxiety symptoms in them The presence of cognitive symptoms in addition to the physiological excitations

In this study, there are two groups of intervention group 1 and intervention group 2 and one control group. The intervention group 1 consists of 15 people and the intervention group 2 consists of 12 people and the control group includes 15 people. In intervention group 1 and intervention group 2, educational and therapy interventions were performed based on the cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). These interventions were taught to women separately during 7 2-hour sessions in each intervention group. Educational interventions were developed step by step and in the short run with significant and practical changes. Educational methods in intervention groups are performed based on the first cognitive model and behavioral models, familiarity with treatment methods for intervention group, exposure and prevention of response, evaluation and confrontation with avoidance, acceptance and commitment, educating the relief-making and diaphragmatic breathing, cognitive assessments, considering the worries and distinguishing between efficient worry and challenging worry, the challenge by inefficient self-thinking and acquaintance with distorted self-thinking, and self-perfection and skill-building, especially problem-solving skills. Also, a set of necessary tools, in addition to cognitive and behavioral techniques, are in the form of post-test and pre-test, evaluation worksheets, homework and self-help worksheets, and educational summary leaflet. The control group was consisted of 15 people. At first, they just filled out a pre-test in a single session, and after a two-month period, they again did the same test as post-test, and no intervention was conducted during the two sessions.

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Quadruple random blocks, consisted of replaced parts named A and B, have already been generated by R software and each of these blocks of size 4 is placed in a separate envelope. The envelopes are provided to one of the colleagues other than researcher. Then the co-worker unlocks the design of one of the envelopesrandomly, and according to the insertion, the four patients, who are referring sequentially, are allocated according to the sequence of the four blocks to each of the groups A or B, and then he selects a different envelope for the next reference

In this study, the analyst and the participant are not aware of the type of intervention in each group.