The Effect of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on the Burden in Drug Dependent Persons' Caregivers: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial

Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research
Maryam Faghih, Saeid Pahlavanzadeh

Abstract

Drug dependence is one of the current problems that leads to the drug dependents persons' suffer and imposes a huge mental burden to their family members. This study aimed investigating to determine the effect of cognitive- behavioral therapy (CBT) on the burden of the caregivers of drug dependent people. In CBT, caregivers discover thought and behavioral mistakes and recover them. This randomized controlled clinical trial was conducted on 64 caregivers of drug dependent individuals referring to one of the clinical and educational centers in Isfahan, Iran, which were randomly assigned to two equal groups (intervention and control) in 2016. Intervention group under went eight 90-min CBT sessions, whereas control group attended 3 group sessions to express their experiences. Data were collected by Zarit Burden scale and the demographic questionnaire and analyzed by independent t-test, Chi-square, and ANCOVA repeated measure through SPSS 18. Before the intervention, no statistical difference was observed among two groups in the mean scores of burden (t = 0.75, p = 0.46). There was a significant difference between three time points in the intervention group (F = 3.24, p < 0.001). However, care burden mean score did not show a signif...Continue Reading

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Mar 6, 2013·Cognitive Therapy and Research·Stefan G HofmannAngela Fang

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