Efficacy of Group-based Logotherapy on the Level of Anxiety and Acceptance of Disease in Blind and Visually Impaired Patients

Document Type : Original article

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1 Master of Clinical Psychology, Psychology Department, Torbat Jam Branch , Islamic Azad University, Torbat Jam, Iran

2 Associate Professor, PhD in General Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Torbat-e Jam Branch, Torbat-e Jam, Iran.

Abstract

Introduction: Logotherapy allows people to interpret events and develop values for themselves about how they live and what they want in life. Blind and visually impaired patients have difficulty accepting their illness and coping with life in the community. This can lead to anxiety. The present study aimed to determine the effect of group-based logotherapy on the level of anxiety and acceptance of disease in blind and visually impaired patients.
Materials and Methods: This quasi-experimental research was conducted based on a pretest-posttest design with a control group. The statistical population of this study included blind and visually impaired people who referred to the Samen-al-Aeme Center for blind people in Mashhad during the first half of 2019. In total, 40 subjects who met the inclusion criteria were non-randomly assigned to the intervention (n=20) and control (n=20) groups. The intervention group received group-based logotherapy for 10 sessions. Subjects in both groups completed the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire developed by Bond et al. (2011) and Beck Anxiety Inventory (1990) in both pretest and posttest stages. The collected data were analyzed in SPSS software (version 16) using multivariate covariance analysis (MANCOVA).
Results: According to the findings, 10 sessions of group-based logotherapy had a significant effect on reducing anxiety (p < 0.001) and increasing acceptance of the disease (p < 0.001) in the intervention group, compared to the control group in the post-test stage.
Conclusion: Based on the results, it can be concluded that group-based logotherapy leads to the reduction of anxiety and an increase of acceptance of the disease in blind and visually impaired individuals. For this reason, it is recommended that therapeutic counselors and psychologists, receive the necessary training to administrate this therapy.

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Navid No
Volume 23, Issue 75
December 2020
Pages 39-50

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