The Effect Mental Imagery and Relaxation on Rate of Anxiety, Depression and Hopefulness in Women Suffering from Breast Cancer of Ahwaz Golestan Hopsital

Subject Areas : Sport Management

A. R.  Haidari ¹ (Assistance Professor of I.A.U. (Ahvaz Branch))
پرویز  Askary ² (assistant professor of department of psychology. ahvaz branch.islamic azad university.ahvaz.iran)
حشمت الله  Darvishi ³ (Assistance Professor of I.A.U. (Ahvaz Branch))

Received: 2016-06-05 Accepted : 2016-06-05 Published : 2009-09-23

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Abstract :

 The  target of  the  present research  was  to  of , depression and hopefulness according to medicine therapy , medicine with mental imagery and relaxation in women suffering from breast cancer of Ahwaz Golestan Hospital.For this  purpose, the subjects  were 40 women who suffering  from  breast  cancer  patients  that  were  selected by random  sampling  and  were divided  into  two 20 person  groups of  experimental  and  control.  The  measurement  instrument  of this research  are  Cattel  Anxiety  Questionnaire (CAQ), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Miller  Hopefulness scale (MHS) that pretest  was performed  for both  groups.  Then, the experimental  group  underwent training  ways  and  techniques  of  mental  imagery  and relaxation  for  one  month(4 week), and 4 session per  week  for  45 minutes  moorings and  afternoons.  After  applying  intervention, the two groups  were tested again.  For analyzing  the  data calculation of  mean, standard  deviation, multivariate  analysis of variance(MANOVA) were used.  Results  indicated  that  mental imagery  and  relaxation  are  effective  I  mitigation  of  anxiety, depression  and interment  of  hopefulness in  women  suffering  from  cancer  of  breast.