Background: The negative impacts of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)outbreak on public mental health are enhancing the number of individuals requiring psychotherapy. Besides, anxiety is becoming more frequent than any other mental health issue among individuals. Similar to other anxiety types, coronavirus anxiety is associated with elevated attentional bias. The present study aimed to ex...

ôbjective: ône of non-confrontative methods for treatment of difficult issues such as grief is movie therapy which is an advanced form of bibliotherapy. the present study aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of group movie therapy (gmt) on reduction of intensity of grief experience in bereaved adolescent girls. methods: this was a quasi-experimental design with pretest-posttest and a follow up...

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the effect of cognitive errors avoidance teaching through narrative therapy on depression and dysfunctional attitude of elementary girl students. This project was an experimental study with pretest-posttest-follow up (1 month) design. To measure depression and dysfunctional attitude, Depression Self-Rating Scale (DSRS) was used and to evalu...

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...

Delineates 5 questions regarding group differences that are likely to be of interest to researchers within the framework of a randomized pretest, posttest, follow-up (PPF) design. These 5 questions are examined from a methodological perspective by comparing and discussing analysis of variance (ANOVA) and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) methods and briefly discussing hierarchical linear modeling...

PURPOSE The purposes of this study were to examine the effectiveness of a behavioral intervention program combining pelvic floor muscle exercise with bladder training for urinary incontinence and also to conduct follow-up assessment after self-training. METHODS This study was conducted using a non-equivalent control group, pretest-posttest design. The subjects were 60 middle-aged women (contr...