Mental Health Improvement of Women with Obsessive- Compulsive Disorder through Cognitive- Behavioral Group Therapy

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is one of the severe anxiety disorders and 1 out of 40 adult was given to the disorder. The disorder epidemic is estimated to be 1.8 % in Iranian society. The aim of article was to study the effect of group cognitive-behavioral therapy on improvement of obsession beliefs and reduction ofobsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms in woman participants who referred to the two public hospitals in Tehran. The research was a semi-experimental study with experimental and control groups, pre-test and post-test plan. Out of 50 clients 15women diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder according to diagnostic and statistical manual of mentaldisorder (DSM-IV-TR). Out of 15 women 8 were selected randomly as a sample group. Obsession Belief Questionnaire (OBQ-44) and Yale - Brown Obsessive Compulsive Symptoms(Y-BOCS) were applied as tools.10 session cognitive- behavioral therapy was hold for experimental group. Descriptive and inferential statistics (t-test) were used to analysis of data with SPSS software. There was found significant reduction on obsessivecompulsive symptoms of experimental group after cognitivebehavioral therapy. Besides, there was improvement on their obsession beliefs. Also total mean score and standard deviation ofOBQ in group decreased from 213.38 and 62.32 in pretest to 174.62 and 41.39 in post-test. The group cognitive-behavioral therapy can be effective method on improvement of obsession beliefs and symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder of women. Application of this method by therapists especially Iranian clinicians is recommended.