Effectiveness of Mindfulness-Integrated Cognitive-Behavioral Group Therapy in Motivational Structure of Hepatitis B Patients

Background: It is essential to understand and support hepatitis B patients to minimize their challenges and limitations and provide them with appropriate treatment. Therefore, it is essential to incorporate training and consulting programs to prepare for and identify various aspects of the disease. Objectives: The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of mindfulness-integrated cognitive-behavioral group therapy (MiCBT) in the motivational structure of hepatitis B patients in Tehran, Iran. Methods: This quasi-experimental study utilized a pretest-posttest design with a control group. The study sample consisted of 28 hepatitis B patients selected from all patients visiting specialist clinics in Tehran in 2020. Following the interviews and completion of the Personal Concerns Inventory, 14 patients were selected per group using simple random sampling and were randomly divided into intervention and control groups. A posttest was conducted after 12 sessions of MiCBT (one 90-min group session weekly for three months). Data were analyzed using the multivariate analysis of covariance in SPSS software. Results: The results revealed a significant increase in adaptive motivational structure (P < 0.001) and a significant decrease in maladaptive motivational structure (P = 0.012) in hepatitis B patients following the therapeutic intervention. Conclusions: The study indicated the MiCBT effectiveness in increasing adaptive motivational structure and decreasing maladaptive motivational structure in hepatitis B patients. As a therapeutic approach, MiCBT can make the motivational structure of hepatitis B patients more adaptive.

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The Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy on Depression, Hope and Adjustment in Patients with Hepatitis B

Zahedan Journal of Research in Medical Sciences ◽

10.5812/zjrms.9423 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 19 (5) ◽

Author(s):

Hossein Shareh ◽

Zahra Robati ◽

Fereshteh Oladi ◽

Vahid Jafarnia

Keyword(s):

Group Therapy ◽

Hepatitis B ◽

Cognitive Behavioral ◽

Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy ◽

Behavioral Group

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People with gambling disorder and risky alcohol habits benefit more from motivational interviewing than from cognitive behavioral group therapy

PeerJ ◽

10.7717/peerj.1899 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 4 ◽

pp. e1899 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Henrik Josephson ◽

Per Carlbring ◽

Lars Forsberg ◽

Ingvar Rosendahl

Keyword(s):

Group Therapy ◽

Motivational Interviewing ◽

Gambling Disorder ◽

Psychological Treatment ◽

Cognitive Behavioral ◽

Research Centre ◽

Control Group ◽

Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy ◽

Risky Alcohol ◽

Behavioral Group

Background. Effective psychological treatment, including cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing (MI), is available for people with problematic gambling behaviors. To advance the development of treatment for gambling disorder, it is critical to further investigate how comorbidity impacts different types of treatments. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether screening for risky alcohol habits can provide guidance on whether people with gambling disorder should be recommended cognitive behavioral group therapy (CBGT) or MI.Methods.The present study is a secondary analysis of a previous randomized controlled trial that compared the effects of CBGT, MI and a waitlist control group in the treatment of disordered gambling. Assessment and treatment was conducted at an outpatient dependency clinic in Stockholm, Sweden, where 53 trial participants with gambling disorder began treatment. A modified version of the National Opinion Research Centre DSM-IV Screen for gambling problems was used to assess gambling disorder. The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) was used to screen for risky alcohol habits.Results.The interaction between treatment and alcohol habits was significant and suggests that patients with gambling disorder and risky alcohol habits were better helped by MI, while those without risky alcohol habits were better helped by CBGT.Conclusions.The results support a screening procedure including the AUDIT prior to starting treatment for gambling disorder because the result of the screening can provide guidance in the choice of treatment. Patients with gambling disorder and risky alcohol habits are likely to be best helped if they are referred to MI, while those without risky alcohol habits are likely to be best helped if they are referred to CBGT.

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Comparison of the Effectiveness of Existential Group Therapy with Cognitive-Behavioral Group Therapy on Increasing Life Satisfaction among the Methadone Maintenance Patients

10.32592/ajnpp.2020.7.3.105 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 172-177

Keyword(s):

Life Satisfaction ◽

Group Therapy ◽

Methadone Maintenance ◽

Behavioral Therapy ◽

Methadone Maintenance Therapy ◽

Cognitive Behavioral ◽

Control Group ◽

Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy ◽

Significant Difference ◽

Behavioral Group

Background and Aims: Given the success of group psychotherapy as well as drug therapies to improve drug-dependent patients, it is increasingly necessary to compare different interventions to select the most effective way to reduce the problems of methadone maintenance therapists. This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of existential group therapy with cognitive-behavioral group therapy on increasing the life satisfaction of addicted people under methadone maintenance therapy. Materials and Methods: This semi-experimental study was conducted based on the pretest-posttest method with a control group. The study population included addicted males who underwent methadone maintenance treatment at Qazvin Addiction Treatment and Injury Clinics in 2019, Qazvin, Iran. The participants (n=90) were randomly selected and divided into experimental (existential and cognitive-behavioral therapy) and control groups. Subsequently, the experimental groups participated in 10 sessions of 120-min per week. The data were analyzed in SPSS software (version 22) through a repeated-measures ANOVA. Results: The results showed the improvement of life satisfaction in the existential and cognitive-behavioral therapy groups (P<0.001); however, the control group showed no significant difference in pretest, posttest, and follow-up. Furthermore, the results indicated no significant difference between cognitive-behavioral and existential therapy groups in terms of life satisfaction (P>0.05). Conclusion: It can be concluded that both cognitive-behavioral and existential therapies are effective in increasing the life satisfaction of addicted patients under methadone maintenance therapy; however, no significant difference was observed between the two experimental groups regarding the increasing level of satisfaction.

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Effectiveness of Group Therapy with Cognitive-behavioral Approach on Negative Feelings of the Women Toward Their Husband’s Family and the Marital Conflicts

Jundishapur Journal of Health Sciences ◽

10.5812/jjhs.103619 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Sahar Khanjani Veshki ◽

Elham Jalali Pour ◽

Shima Pasha

Keyword(s):

Group Therapy ◽

Behavioral Approach ◽

Cognitive Behavioral ◽

Control Group ◽

Statistical Population ◽

Marital Conflicts ◽

Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy ◽

Behavioral Group ◽

Negative Feelings

Background: Marital life is based on effective reciprocal relations such as quality of communications with the spouse’s family. Objectives: The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral group therapy on negative feelings of the women toward their husband’s family and marital conflicts. Methods: This is a quasi-experimental study with a pretest-posttest design and follow-up with a control group. The statistical population included all women referring to Rahgosha Consultation Center in the town of Tiran (due to marital conflicts) in 2018. Thirty samples were selected using a convenient sampling technique. Then, the samples were randomly divided into two groups of experimental (15 women) and control (15 women). Women’s negative feelings toward the husband’s family and marital conflicts questionnaires were used to collect data. The experimental group received seven ninety-minute sessions of cognitive-behavioral group therapy. Finally, a posttest was performed for both groups. Moreover, the follow-up stage was administered a month after the posttest on both groups. Mean and standard deviation were used to analyze the data at descriptive statistics, and MANCOVA was used at the inferential statistics level through SPSS21 software. Results: Cognitive-behavioral group therapy could effectively decrease both the women’s negative feelings toward their husband’s family and marital conflicts (P < 0.05). Conclusions: This study demonstrated that cognitive-behavioral group therapy can be applied to decrease negative feelings toward the husband’s family and to address marital conflicts.

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