The Effect of Wales Metacognitive Therapy on Quality of Life in Female Students with Social Anxiety Disorder in Gachsaran Universities

Present study was carried out to determine the effectiveness of Wells metacognitive therapy on the ýquality of life of female students with social anxiety disorder. The design of this research was Pseudo-ýexperimental with pre-test and post-test design and follow up with two groups of control and ýexperiment. The statistical population consisted of all students of Gachsaran universities that was ýconducted on 300 students with a questionnaire of social anxiety. Then, those whose anxiety scores ýwere two standard deviations greater than the average, among them by considering the likelihood of ýthe loss of the participants, were collected and 60 of them were randomly selected and randomly ýassigned to 30 experimental and control groups. World Health Organization Quality of Life ýQuestionnaire was conducted in three stages: pre-test, post-test and follow-up for the groups. ýFollowing the implementation of ethical considerations (informed consent, willingness, secrecy), The ýexperimental group received metacognitive therapy during 10 sessions of 2 hours and The control ýgroup received no treatment. The results of covariance analysis showed that there is a significant ýdifference between the two groups in all of the components in the post-test (P