Effectiveness of Group Logo Therapy on Hope and General Health of Dialysis Patients

Abstract Aim and Many of diseases, especially chronic and debilitating types, have co-morbidity with psychological problems. One of these chronic diseases which has co-morbidity with psychological problems is renal failure. This disease can endanger public health. This study was conducted aiming to examine the effectiveness of group logo therapy on hope and general health of dialysis patients at Milad Hospital of Tehran, Iran. Methods and Materials: Research method was semi-experimental and research design was the kind of pretest-posttest. The statistical community includes all patients admitted to the dialysis sector at Milad Hospital of Tehran in the fall and winter at 2012. Thirty patients were selected purposively and then replaced at random in two control and experiment groups (15 subjects in each group). The experiment group was admitted to group logo therapy intervention in 8 sessions during 90 minutes and the control group was also at waiting list and was admitted to no intervention. Covariance analysis test was used for analyzing data. The confidence distance and acceptable error are 0.95 and 0.05 respectively. The findings showed that rate of hope and general health increased among the patients who were admitted to intervention logo therapy According to the results obtained, it can be said that logo therapy approach was effective in increasing hope and general health among dialysis patients at Milad Hospital of Tehran.