The Effect of Logo Therapy to Decrease Depression in a Sample of Cancer Patients

Subject Areas : Psychological Models and Methods

آذرمیدخت Rezaei ¹ , JH Refahi ² , M.A Ahmadi KHah ³

1 - استادیار دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد مرودشت
2 - استادیار دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد مرودشت
3 - دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد علوم تحقیقات،گروه روانشناسی

Received: 2015-12-14 Accepted : 2015-12-14 Published : 2012-03-20

Keywords: Depression, Logo Therapy, Cancer,

Abstract :

The main purpose of this research was to study the effectiveness of logo therapy training for decreasing the depression of cancer patients in Shiraz city. The sample of this research were a group of 30 patients affected with the cancer with range of 20-40 years , with the exact diagnosis of this illness without the Psychiatry or chronic background disease who consults the cancer center part of Namazi hospital and Motahari clinic. Method of sampling was a target method with the groups of 30 subjects (15 experimental and 15 control group).The data collected through Beck depression questionnaire. Logo therapy trained to the group in 10 sessions .The analyzing of the given data showed that training of logo therapy had effect in decreasing the amount of depression in affected patients. In follow up stage there was no difference found in all three stages of study. There was no significant difference between the groups regarding their depression with their education level.