ملخص الجهاز:
De- pression in women with breast cancer results in gradual loss of psychological energy, increase of stress due to the disease and its treatment, decrease of immunity func- tion, deteriorating of the quality of relationship with the physician, decrease in sexual drive, and failure in fol- lowing the instructions given by the treating doctor (Mo- radimanesh et al.
In this regard, it seems that, metacognitive therapy by focusing on metacognitive aspects such as positive and negative beliefs and rumination that are main components of depression may be an effective treatment in situations that time, due to whatever rea- sons, is limited.
Al- though according to the research reports, the majority of the patients are treated partially or completely (Sareh, 2014; Papageorgiou, 2003; Wells, 2009) as insufficient number of researches have been conducted worldwide or specifically in Iran, the effectiveness of this treat- ment model has not been studied in people with physi- cal diseases.
So this research was designed to examine the effect of metacognitive therapy on the depression in women with breast cancer.
Discussion</H2> Results of our research and comparing participant’s scores during each session indicate that metacognitive therapy can have a positive impact on patients with breast cancer, and patient’s score was stable in the fol- low-up assessment.
The find- ings of the research indicated that that metacognitive therapy would result in decrease of depression and ‘thought rumination.
Effectiveness of group cognitive therapy on improvement of metacognitive belief and thought rumination of patients suffering from basic depression disorder.
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