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IJPN 2018, 6(4): 27-34 Back to browse issues page
The effectiveness of psychological well-being treatment on obsessive- compulsive disorder improvement and the fear of negative evaluation of women with washing compulsive
Afsaneh Gandaharizadeh * , Hamidreza Aghamohammadian Sharbaf , Fariborz Bagheri
General Psychology, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran , aghamohammadian@um.ac.ir
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Introduction:Obsessive- compulsive disorder is one of the most common psychiatric disorders that affects on life aspects. With the respect to high prevalence of obsessive -compulsive disorder and destructive effects of this disorder on interpersonal and social relationships in the long term, this study evaluates the effectiveness of psychological well-being treatment on clinical symptoms and the fear of negative evaluation of patients with washing compulsive disorder.
Methods:Present study is semi-experimental with pre-test and post-test design and follow-up study .statistical society was all women with washing compulsive disorder  at Khane Mehr and Holy Shrine clinics in Mashhad city in 2017 that a random sample (n=30 )was selected, then randomly divided into two groups : experimental group(n=15) and control group (n=15).Then for experimental group, wellbeing-based treatment was performed at 12 sessions of 90 minutes once a week. The data was collected by Yale-Brown obsessive- compulsive disorder scale (Goodman et al, 1989) and negative evaluation questionnaire (Leary ,1983) and analyzed  by variance analysis  method (ANOVA)  and SPSS 23 software.Findings suggested that psychological well-being therapy had a significant and positive effect on practical and obsessive-compulsive disorder (P <0.001), which persisted two months after the intervention. Data analysis showed that psychological well-being therapy had a significant effect on the fear of negative evaluation of patients with washing compulsive disorder, which persisted at follow-up study.
Conclusion:Study results showed that psychological well-being treatment is effective in reducing practical obsessive-compulsive disorder and also the fear of negative evaluation of washing compulsive disorder. This interventional method can be used as an effective method in the treatment of people with obsessive-compulsive disorder in counseling centers
Keywords: Psychological well-being therapy, obsessive compulsive disorder, fear of negative evaluation, washing compulsive disorder
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Received: 2018/04/16 | Published: 2018/11/15 | ePublished: 2018/11/15


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