Comparison the Efficacy of ACT Enriched with Compassion (face to face and online manners) on Psychological Distress, Disgust Sensitivity and OCD Symptoms of Individuals with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Subject Areas : Clinicalsomayeh saeadi dehaghani 1 , Iran Davoudi 2 , مهناز مهرابی زاده هنرمند 3 , Ismail Hashemi 4
1 - PHD student in psychology, Department of psychology, Shahid Chamran university of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran.
2 - Department of psychology, Shahid Chamran university of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran.
3 - Department of psychology, Shahid Chamran university of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran.
4 - Department of psychology, Shahid Chamran university of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran.
Keywords: acceptance and commitment therapy, compassion, psychological distress, disgust sensitivity, obsessive-compulsive disorder, online,
Abstract :
The perpouse of the present study was to compare the efficacy of acceptance and commitment therapy enriched with compassion in face-to-face and online manner on psychological distress, disgust sensitivity and OCD Symptoms of Individuals with Obsessive-Compulsive disorder. Using a randomized controlled trial design 30 women with OCD Symptoms, who had referred to counselling and psychological service centers in Tehran, participated in the study through convenient sampling. Participants filled Obsessive-Compulsive scale (Yale- Brown, 1986), Psychological Distress (Kessler & et al, 2002), and Disgust Sensitivity Scale (Haidt et al, 1994). MANCOVA and ANCOVAs using SPSS 26 software revealed that the ACT enriched with compassion face-to-face method had a greater effect on all variables except for disgust sensitivity (p>0/01) compared to the online. On the basis of results. although the face-to-face method showed more effectiveness in this research, but in situations where face-to-face treatment is not possible, using the online method can be a relative replacement instead of not having access to treatment
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