Nabian Pantea
Departmenta of Psychology, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran.
Ann Med Surg (Lond). 2023 Jun 28;85(8):3901-3905. doi: 10.1097/MS9.0000000000000971. eCollection 2023 Aug.
Mood disorders are one of the most common psychiatric disorders that manifest as a low mood in depressed people or a high mood in manic people. The cognitive-behavioral therapy group is one of the most effective forms of intervention available for patients with mood disorders. This research aimed to evaluate the effect of cognitive-behavioral group therapy in reducing depression and anxiety in patients with mood disorders.
The study was a semi-experimental study with a pretest-post-test design with a control group. The research subjects were 60 patients hospitalized in the psychiatric department of Razi Hospital in Tehran, who were randomly divided into two experimental (:30) and control (:30) groups. Both groups took medicine as usual. Before the therapeutic intervention, both groups were evaluated with Beck's depression questionnaire and the Zung anxiety scale. In addition to drug therapy, the experimental group participated in ten sessions of the cognitive-behavioral therapy group, and in the control group, no psychological intervention was performed except for drug therapy. At the end of the nonpharmacological treatment intervention, both groups were evaluated again with the aforementioned tests. The obtained data were analyzed using independent and dependent -tests.
The research findings showed that the cognitive-behavioral therapy group was significantly (<0.05) effective in reducing the depression of hospitalized patients with mood disorders, but this method did not have much effect in reducing the anxiety of the patients.
Cognitive-behavioral group therapy can be effective in reducing depression in hospitalized patients with mood disorders.
情绪障碍是最常见的精神疾病之一，表现为抑郁患者情绪低落或躁狂患者情绪高涨。认知行为治疗组是情绪障碍患者可用的最有效的干预形式之一。本研究旨在评估认知行为团体治疗对减轻情绪障碍患者抑郁和焦虑的效果。
本研究为半实验性研究，采用前后测设计并设有对照组。研究对象为德黑兰拉齐医院精神科住院的60名患者，他们被随机分为两个实验组（每组30人）和对照组（每组30人）。两组均照常服药。在治疗干预前，两组均用贝克抑郁问卷和zung焦虑量表进行评估。除药物治疗外，实验组参加了十次认知行为治疗组治疗，对照组除药物治疗外未进行任何心理干预。在非药物治疗干预结束时，两组再次用上述测试进行评估。所得数据采用独立样本和配对样本t检验进行分析。
研究结果表明，认知行为治疗组在减轻住院情绪障碍患者的抑郁方面有显著效果（<0.05），但该方法在减轻患者焦虑方面效果不明显。
认知行为团体治疗对减轻住院情绪障碍患者的抑郁有效。
