Effectiveness of Lazarus Multimodal Therapy on Self- Efficacy in Women with Obsessive-compulsive Disorder

Because of high outbreak of OCD syndrome in society and its negative impacts on the life of patients and according to the role of women in developing health in the society and family, this research investigate the effectiveness of Lazarus multimodal therapy on self-efficacy in women with obsessive-compulsive disorder. In this study, a treatment method of Multimodal Counselling Therapy as the independent variable and the variable of self-efficacy as dependent variables were considered. The statistical population of present study was including women OCD patients that referred to psychiatry clinics of Tehran city, and their OCD was endorsement by psychiatrists. In a 5 month survey, all of them population was 350 patients. Sample study was selected by purposeful method and 30 patients was selected based on acquire the higher score of OCD test. Those of the 30 people who meet the entry criteria were randomly selected in both experimental (n=15) and control (n=15) groups, respectively. For experimental group we used Multimodal Counselling Therapy protocol based on Corey (1991) in 10 sessions in 10 weeks and each session was 45 minutes, and control group no received any treatment. Our finding showed that effect of covariance variable is significance difference that related to intervention. Results showed significance difference between groups of experimental and control, in the other words, 63.7 percent of self-efficacy of OCD women is related to a period of Multimodal Counselling Therapy. Our findings showed that Multimodal Counselling Therapy can use for increase the self-efficacy in OCD women.