The effectiveness of cognitive rehabilitation on the quality of life and cognitive improvement of mothers with children with cerebral palsy and its effectiveness on the improvement process of their children's treatment
Subject Areas : Healthzahra sadat Fahandezh Sadi 1 , Hamidreza Nourbakhsh 2 , Nazanin Honarparvaran 3 *
1 - PhD student in counseling, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
2 - PhD student in clinical psychology, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
3 - Corresponding author, Doctor of Counseling, Assistant Professor of Counseling Department, Maroodasht Unit, Islamic Azad University, Maroodasht, Iran nazanin48@gmail.com
Keywords: cognitive rehabilitation, cerebral palsy, cognitive modification, treatment improvement, quality of life,
Abstract :
Abstract Introduction: Cerebral palsy is a non-progressive abnormality that occurs in the developing brain, which causes motor and postural neurological deficits in growing children. The present study is to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive rehabilitation on the quality of life and cognitive improvement of mothers with children with cerebral palsy, as well as its effectiveness on the improvement process of their children's treatment. Research method: This research was an experimental type with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The statistical population of the current study includes mothers with children with cerebral palsy in Shiraz and the statistical sample includes.There were 30 mothers who were randomly divided into two groups of 15 intervention and control. A short mental state test was conducted to measure the mental state of mothers as a condition for entering the research. Then two World Health Organization quality of life tests and "Fever Test" were performed as pre-test and post-test to measure between these two groups before and after the intervention. The therapeutic intervention of mothers was carried out through cognitive rehabilitation protocols by Captain Log cognitive rehabilitation software in 20 one-hour sessions. Also, their children with cerebral palsy were evaluated by the therapist by performing the children's disability evaluation list test as a pre-test and post-test and were treated by him. The raw data of the questionnaires were collected in two descriptive levels Inferences were analyzed by SPSS software. Findings: The results showed that cognitive rehabilitation has a positive and significant effect on the quality of life and cognitive improvement of mothers with children with cerebral palsy. Also, the cognitive rehabilitation of mothers with children with cerebral palsy was able to show its effect on the recovery process of children who were treated with occupational therapy, which had a positive and significant effect on the process of improving the treatment of children with cerebral palsy. Conclusion: It is suggested that in the clinical and theoretical education of nursing students and personnel, the category of spiritual health is one of the important dimensions of mental health to empower more patients, especially chronic patients should be used more.
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