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Introduction: The present study was conducted with the aim of examining the effectiveness of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) on depression of heart disease patients in Tehran city in 2019. Method: The research method was semi-experimental with pretest-posttest and control group. The statistical population of the study consisted of all heart disease patients in Tehran city, among whom 30 individuals were selected through available sampling method and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups (15 in each group). The experimental group received Emotionally Focused Therapy training in nine 60-minute sessions, and the control group remained in the waiting list. The research instrument was depression questionnaire (Beck, Steer & Braun,1996) which was conducted in two stages of pretest and posttest. The analysis was performed through SPSS v24 in two descriptive and inferential statistical sections. Results: The results indicated that intervention used in this study could significantly decrease depression in heart disease patients (p˂0.05). Conclusion: Based on the results of this research, Emotionally Focused Therapy can be an effective intervention in reducing depression in heart disease patients.
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Conclusion: Based on the results of this research, Emotionally Focused Therapy can be an effective intervention in reducing depression in heart disease patients .
Due to the problems of patients with artery coronary disease, various interventions have been used to solve their problems; however, Emotionally Focused Therapy has not been studied in the previous related research.
According to a study, Emotionally Focused Therapy plays an important role in improving the coronary artery bypass patients (Nekounam, Etemadi & Pournaghash Terhrani, 2018).
Emotionally Focused Thera )VIew the image of this page) py sessions by Johnson (2019) In Iran, reliability and validity of depression inventory have been investigated in a study and Cronbach alpha was used to examine its reliability, which was reported 90% for women, 91% for men, and 81% for the whole inventory (Karami, Bagian, Moemeni, & Elahi, 2018).
In addition, the results of analysis of covariance in table 4 shows that the difference between depression in the posttest step was statistically significant, meaning that the Emotionally Focused Therapy was effective in reducing anxiety symptoms of coronary heart patient.
Discussion and Conclusion The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of Emotionally Focused Therapy on depression in patients with coronary heart disease.
The results showed that Emotionally Focused Therapy is used to reduce depressive symptoms in patients with coronary heart disease.
Emotional therapy, as can be seen in this study, had a significant effect on depression in patients with coronary heart disease.