The effect of reality therapy on deprestion symptoms and chronic pain in women with a veteran spouse and the mental health of girls aged 18 to 20 years

Subject Areas : Family

mojtaba aghili ¹ , Arezou Asghari ² , simin mokhayeri ³ , mitra namazi ⁴

1 - Department, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Assistant Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Kosar University of Bojnord, Bojnord, Iran
3 - Master of Psychology, Payam Noor University, Gorgan, Iran.
4 - Master of Clinical Psychology, Shahrood Branch, University of Science and Research, Shahrood, Iran

Received: 2021-10-23 Accepted : 2022-01-18 Published : 2024-08-04

Keywords: reality therapy, depression, chronic pain, women with a veteran spouse, general health,

Abstract :

The aim of this study was to evaluate the the effect of reality therapy on depression symptoms and chronic pain in women with a veteran spouse and the mental health of girls aged 18 to 20 years. The quasi-experimental study was a pretest-posttest with a control group. The statistical population of the study includes all women with veteran spouses and daughters aged 18 to 20 years in Gorgan in 2019. Among the spouses and children of veterans referring to the Gorgan Shahed Counseling Center, 60 people were selected by available sampling method and randomly selected in experimental group 1 (15 mothers), experiment 2 (15 children), control 1 (15 mothers), control 2 (15 children) were placed. The experimental groups received reality therapy training (8 sessions of 90 minutes) and the control groups did not receive any intervention until the end of the study. The research instruments were Depression Inventory (Beck, 1988), Chronic Pain Questionnaire (McGill, 1997) and General Health Questionnaire (Goldberg & Hiller, 1979). Data were analyzed using univariate analysis of covariance in spss.22 software. The results showed that reality therapy has a significant effect on reducing depression, chronic pain in women and increasing the general health of children (p<0.001). Reality therapy can be used as an effective intervention method to reduce depression and chronic pain in women with a veteran spouse and increase the mental health of their children.

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