Clinical Psychology and Personality

Clinical Psychology and Personality

The Comparing Effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Compassion-Focused Therapy on Quality of Life in Women with Psoriasis

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
1 Ph.D. Student in Health Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
2 Corresponding author, Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical and Educational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
3 Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences ,Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
Introduction: Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease linked to heightened stress levels and a substantial negative impact on patients' quality of life and their ability to tolerate distress. The purpose of this study was to comparison of the comparing effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy and compassion-focused therapy on quality of life in women with psoriasis.
Method: This semi-experimental study was conducted with a pretest-posttest design with control group and follow-up 2 month. The statistical population of the research was all women with psoriasis who referred to the dermatology clinics of Tehran city in autumn of year 2024. Then the number of 45 women patients diagnosed by a physician were randomly divided into two groups, including an cognitive-behavioral therapy group (15 women), compassion-focused therapy group (15 women) and a control group (15 women). Then the first experimental group underwent 8 sessions of 90 minute cognitive-behavioral therapy and the second experimental group underwent 10 sessions of 90 minute of compassion-focused therapy. To collect data Dermatology life quality index (DLQI) of Finlay and Khan (1994). Analysis of variance with repeated measures and Bonferroni post hoc test was used for data analysis. The data analysis software was SPSS version 28.
Results: The results showed that both interventions had a significant effect on quality of life (P<0.05). In addition, the results of Bonferroni post hoc test showed that compassion-focused therapy is more effective than cognitive-behavioral therapy on quality of life (P<0.05).
Discussion and conclusion: Based on the results of the present study, it can be said that cognitive-behavioral therapy and compassion-focused therapy can be used as a treatment method to on quality of life in women with psoriasis and priority of use in in increase quality of life women with psoriasis is with compassion-focused therapy.
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