%0 Journal Article
%T Effectiveness of Stress Management Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy on Psychological and Physiological Indexes of Patients
%A Vahideh Montazeri-Khadem
%A Hamid-Taher Neshat-Dust
%A Mehrdad Kalanteri
%A Rezvan Sadr-Mohammadi
%J Zahedan Journal of Research in Medical Sciences
%D 2012
%I Zahedan University of Medical Sciences
%X Background: The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of stress management cognitive-behavioral therapy on psychological indexes) anxiety and depression) of patients volunteer to surgery. Materials and Methods: The design of research was Quasi-experimental with pre-post test type, and control group. 26 subjects were selected on the list of elective surgery in March 2009 had been assigned randomly to experimental (N=13) and control group (N=13). Stress management intervention was conducted in experimental group and were under no intervention in control group. Test anxiety by Spilberger, depression by Beck depression were measured.Results: Destabilizing Middle data using covariance analysis was used. Results showed that test scores of anxiety, depression compared to the experimental group had a significant reduction (p< 0.05).Conclusion: Stress management cognitive-behavior intervention can be a elective psychotherapy.
%K Cognitive therapy
%K Stress
%K Anxiety
%K Depression
%K Surgery
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