خلاصة:
Background and purpose: The emergence of chronic diseases, such as Parkinson, seriously damages the patients’ psychological health besides their physical health. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of determining the effectiveness of the package of hope therapy based on positivist approach on life quality and psychological wellbeing of patients with Parkinson. Method: The present study was quasi-experimental with pretest, posttest, control group and two-month follow-up period. The statistical population of the present study included the people with Parkinson in the city of Isfahan in the winter of 2018-19. The participants of study were 40 patients with Parkinson who were selected through non-random available sampling. The selected samples were randomly assigned into experimental and control groups (20 patients in the experimental group and 20 in the control group). The experimental group received training intervention of hope therapy based on positivist approach in ten ninety-minute sessions for three months. The applied questionnaires in this study included the questionnaires of life quality (WHO, 1994) and psychological wellbeing (Ryff, 1980). The data from the study were analyzed through repeated measurement ANOVA. Results: The results showed that the training package of hope therapy based on positivist approach has significant effect on life quality and psychological wellbeing of Parkinson patients (f= 83.83, f= 117.68, p Conclusion: The findings of the present study showed that training package of hope therapy based on positivist approach can lead to the improvement of life quality and psychological wellbeing of Parkinson patients due to enjoying the methods of hope therapy and positivist psychotherapy.
ملخص الجهاز:
Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of determining the effectiveness of the package of hope therapy based on positivist approach on life quality and psychological wellbeing of patients with Parkinson.
PD affects not only on the functional abilities of patients, but also on the emotional, psychological, social, affectional and different dimensions of their quality of life (Suratos, Saranza, Sumalapao & Jamora, 2018; Lee, Kim, Chung, Kang et al, 2018).
So far, the effect of hope enhancement on improving QoL in chronic diseases, such as cancer patients (Sanatani, Schreier & Stitt, 2008; Duggleby, Degner, Williams & Wright, 2007), HIV-positive individuals (Gezelseflo & Esbati, 2013) and patients with essential hypertension (Sotoudeh Asl, Nashat Doost, Kalantari, Talebi & Khosravi, 2010) have been shown in various studies.
Positive psychotherapy is another new therapeutic intervention whose clinical trial has been approved in studies by researchers such as Flink, Smeets, Bergbom and Peters (2015); Uliaszek, Rashid, Williams and Gulamani (2016); Shoshani, Steinmetz and Kanat-Maymon (2016); Proyer, Gander, Wellenzohn and Ruch (2016); Ochoa, Casellas-Grau, Vives, Font and Borràs (2017); Walsh, Szymczynska, Taylor and Priebe (2018); and Huffman, Feig, Millstein and Freedman (2019).
This means that the educational package of hope therapy based on positive approach has been able to improve QoL and psychological well-being of PD patients in the post-test and follow-up stages.
The second finding of the study showed that the package of hope therapy based on positive approach improved psychological well-being of PD patients.