Assessing the Effects of Acceptance-commitment and Psychodrama Therapies in Nurses With Social Anxiety Disorder

Objectives: Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is one the most prevalent psychiatric disorders and generates severe negative effects on patients' mental, individual, social health. Decreased responsibility, absenteeism, poor life quality can be consequences of this disorder. Considering effective empirical background both therapeutic approaches in reducing symptoms lack research combining interventions to reduce anxiety, study was performed determine acceptance-commitment therapy (ACT) psychodrama nurses' anxiety. Methods: This randomized trial conducted at Torbat Heydarieh University Medical Sciences 2017 with a pre-test-post-test design. A total 48 nurses SAD who were referred university counseling center chosen random entered into 4 equal groups (12 subjects) (an intervention group 3 control groups). The received combination ACT therapies twelve 90-minute treatment sessions (2 meetings every week). provided therapy, ACT, no treatment. data collected by Connor's questionnaire (2000). analyzed analyses variance covariance. Results: decrease observed scores four after psychological therapies. Mean±SD score based 64.75±13.37 before period 49.08±6.71 that. While group, it 59.65±12.21 42.66±8.05 study, respectively, therapies, 62.75±13.49 35.75±7.19 significant difference (P=0.86) could detected mean control. However, significantly decreased (P<0.001) compared other studied groups. Discussion: analysis showed that reduced nurses.