In collaboration with Payame Noor University and Iranian Health Psychology

Document Type : research

Author

Department psychology,Payam-E-Noor university,Tehran,Iran

Abstract

Objective: Hemodialysis patients  suffer many problems including feelings of loneliness, fatigue, and low lifestyle quality. This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of online existential consciousness therapy on these patients’ loneliness, fatigue, and lifestyle.
Methods: The research method was quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest and follow-up design with a control group.  The research population was all hemodialysis patients who were referred to the dialysis center of Nikan Hospital in Tehran. Using the convenience sampling method, 30 participants were selected as study samples. Research instruments for collecting data were the Rasel’s Loneliness Questionnaire (1978), the Fick's Fatigue Impact Questionnaire (1944), and the Corona Virus Lifestyle Scale (Ali Akbari Dehkordi, et al., 2020). For the experimental group, ten 90-minutes sessions were performed through Sky-room.
Results: MANCOVA and ANCOVA showed that existential consciousness training reduced the feeling of loneliness in the sub-components of not having a close friend, lack of loneliness, and isolation, but was not effective in the sub-component of sociability. This intervention also reduced the fatigue in the cognitive and social components but did not affect the physical component. It was also effective on the happy lifestyle but did not affect the healthy lifestyle.
Conclusions: Existential consciousness therapy was effective in reducing the loneliness feeling, fatigue impact, and lifestyle changes of hemodialysis patients during home quarantine. Therefore, this method can be used as a new therapeutic approach to reduce the loneliness and fatigue impact caused by hemodialysis and change patients' lifestyles during quarantine in medical centers and psychological services.
 

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Article Title [Persian]

اثربخشی آموزش آنلاین هشیاری وجودی در درمان گروهی بر احساس تنهایی ،اثرخستگی و سبک زندگی در زمان قرنطینه خانگی در بیماران همودیالیز

Author [Persian]

  • فاطمه بیان فر

استادیار گروه روان شناسی دانشگاه پیام نور-تهران -ایران

Abstract [Persian]

Objective : هدف این پژوهش تعیین اثر بخشی آموزش آنلاین هشیاری وجودی در درمان گروهی بر احساس تنهایی، اثر خستگی و سبک زندگی در زمان قرنطینه خانگی در بیماران تحت درمان همودیالیز بود.
Method : روش پژوهش نیمه آزمایشی با طرح پیش آزمون-پس آزمون -پیگیری بود. جامعه ، کلیه بیماران تحت درمان با همودیالیز بیمارستان نیکان شهر تهران درسال 1399 بود. از میان این بیماران 30 نفر با روش نمونه گیری در دسترس انتخاب شدند. ابزار مورد استفاده شامل پرسشنامه احساس تنهایی ( راسل،1978)، تاثیر خستگی ( فیسک،1944) و مقیاس سبک زندگی در زمان همه گیری ابتلاء به ویروس کرونا ( علی اکبر دهکردی و همکاران2020) بود. برای گروه آزمایش، ده جلسه 90 دقیقه ای آموزش هشیاری وجودی به صورت گروهی در اسکای روم اجرا شد و گروه گواه هیچ گونه مداخله ای دریافت نکرد. جهت تحلیل داده ها از روش آنالیز واریانس چند متغیره و تحلیل کواریانس چند متغیری استفاده شد.
Results : نتایجMANCOVA،, ANCOVA نشان داد که آموزش آنلاین هشیاری وجودی موجب کاهش احساس تنهائی در خرده مولفه های نداشتن دوست صمیمی، احساس تنهایی و انزوا بود ولی بر خرده مولفه اجتماعی بودن موثر نبود. همچنین موجب کاهش اثرخستگی شناختی و اجتماعی بود ولی بر خستگی جسمی اثرگذار نبود. بر سبک زندگی شاد موثر بود، ولی بر سبک زندگی سالم اثرگذار نبود.
Conclusion :با توجه به نتایج می توان از این روش جهت کاهش احساس تنهایی و اثر خستگی ناشی از همودیالیزو تغییر سبک زندگی بیماران در زمان قرنطینه خانگی در مراکز درمانی و خدمات روانشناختی استفاده نمود.

Keywords [Persian]

  • هشیاری وجودی
  • تنهایی
  • خستگی
  • سبک زندگی
  • همودیالیز
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