IRCT2015111625063N1 IRCT 2016-01-11 Tehran University of Medical Sciences Evaluation of expressive emotion intervention effect on physical and mental health of kidney transplant recipients Evaluation of expressive emotion intervention effect on physical and mental health of kidney transplant recipients 2015-09-23 anticipated 60 Complete https://irct.ir/trial/21034 interventional Randomization: Randomized, Blinding: Double blinded, Placebo: Used, Assignment: Parallel, Purpose: Supportive. N/A Moderate Depression. Intervention 1: The intervention for target group is expressive emotion therapy. During the first week after transplantation the target group will be asked to do homework in three 15 minutes sessions. How to write the contents of the cases will be as follows: What you are being asked to write, as the most profound ideas, your feelings about the experience kidney failure and transplants. I know people who are undergoing a kidney transplant, experiencing many emotions and you want to focus on all of these emotions. Discover your deepest feelings and thoughts. You may have different feelings and changes before the diagnosis of kidney failure, during dialysis, when you were in waiting list and now. Each of the courses you choose is important to focus entirely on your deepest feelings and thoughts. I mention again you must focused on the deepest feelings and thoughts. The only rule is continuous writing for 15 minutes. If you feel that you have nothing to give, just repeat the previous entries that have said. About the mistakes of grammar, spelling and sentence do not apply. Just write. After the meetings about the content of the supportive feedback is given by the clinician. Intervention 2: The control group will be asked to focus only on the facts of renal failure and kidney transplantation, not on their emotions ,during three 15 minutes sessions.