Comparison of the Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Reality Therapy on Self-Care Behaviors in Female Patients with Breast Cancer

Nahid Khanbabaei; Mina Mojtabaei; Amin Rafiepour

doi:10.18502/qjcr.v20i80.8495

Nahid Khanbabaei PhD Student, Department of Health Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Counseling, Roodehen Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Mina Mojtabaei Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Counseling, Islamic Azad University, Roodehen Branch, Tehran, Iran.
Amin Rafiepour Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran Payame Noor University, PhD, Iran.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18502/qjcr.v20i80.8495

Keywords: Considering the effect of reality therapy approach on increasing self-care behaviors in female patients with breast cancer, the need for more attention and application of this approach and thus increasing the likelihood of self-care in patients is felt more than before

Abstract

Aim: The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment and reality therapy on self-care behaviors in female patients with breast cancer. Methods: The design of the present study was a quasi-experimental including three groups of pre-test-post-test with control group, and follow-up. The present study population included female patients with breast cancer aged between 25 to 45 years who referred to the oncology ward of Imam Hossein Hospital in Tehran in the second half of the year 2020. In this study, three experimental groups, with 20 individuals in each was used. For the methodology, the experimental group received the acceptance and commitment treatment protocol, while the second experimental group received the reality therapy intervention. These were performed in eight 90-minute sessions. But the control group did not receive any intervention. Mixed analysis of variance was used to analyze the data. Findings: Finally, in examining the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment and reality therapy approaches, it was found that there is a difference between the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy and reality therapy on self-care behaviors in female patients with breast cancer (P<0.430). In other words, reality therapy has a greater effect on increasing self-care behaviors in female patients with breast cancer than acceptance and commitment therapy.