the effect of group movie therapy on reduction of obsessive compulsive

the obsessive compulsive disorder is a mental health global problem with the rate of prevalence about 2.5 percent in all the life. nowadays, one of the main challenges is creating of new and effective therapies that also provide low-cost interventions. the aim of this study was to determine the effect of group movie therapy on reduction symptoms of obsessive compulsive. the design of this study was quasi-experimental pretest– posttest and follow- up (one month) with control group. the samples were included 24 people with oc symptoms that randomly selected to the control and the experimental group (12 people in each group). the research instrument was maudsley obsessive - compulsive inventory (moci). the obtaining scores were evaluated from obsessive - compulsive and subscales included on checking, cleaning, slowness, and doubting in three phases (pretest, posttest and follow-up in a month). the results were analyzed with a mixed anova analysis. the results of this research showed that the group movie therapy was useful significantly (p