The Effect of Individual Hope Therapy Program on Reduction of Depression in Elderly Patients with Unstable Angina Hospitalized in Cardiac Care Unit

The hope therapy program has rarely been used for heart patients and little information is available on individual Hope therapy.
The present study was conducted to evaluate the effect of the individual Hope Therapy program on reduction of depression in elderly patients with unstable angina hospitalized in the CCU.
This clinical trial study was performed in the CCUs of hospitals in Tonekabon city in 2016. The research population included elderly patients with unstable angina. The subjects were randomly divided into 2 groups of 16, the intervention and control groups. The data were collected before, 1 week later, and then 1 month after the intervention. A short cognitive questionnaire collected demographic information of the elderly at the beginning of the study through a face-to-face interview. A hospital depression questionnaire was performed before the intervention as well as 1week and 1 month after the intervention.
Results of the variance analysis of the repeated measures test showed that depression scores in the experimental group were significantly lower than that of the control group 1 month after performing the protocol. However, the scores did not have any significant difference in both the control and experimental group 1week after the program was ended. P = 0.112 Eta = 0.070.
The results of this study showed that Hope Therapy reduced the level of depression scores in the intervention group compared with the control group in 3 steps, these results are stable.