Effectiveness of Treatment Based on Acceptance and Commitment, Compassion-Based Therapy and Combination Therapy on Depression, Anxiety Quality of Life in Patients with Lupus

Lupus is a disease that causes anxiety in a person with anxiety and tension in response to threatening conditions. This change in people's mood structure causes depression and changes in their quality of life. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment based therapy and compassion based therapy on depression, anxiety, quality of life in patients with systemic lupus.

This is a quasi-experimental study with pre-test, post-test with a control grou. The statistical population of this study included all patients with systemic lupus treated in Shiraz hospitals (N = 750), who were randomly divided into four groups. The control group was divided into 20 and 3 experimental groups. The instruments used in this study included Beck Depression Scale, Zong Anxiety Scale (SAS), and the World Health Organization Quality of Life.

The results of Covariance analysis showed that this treatment had a significant effect on systemic lupus at post-test and follow-up stage.

The results showed the effect of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Compassion Based Therapy (CFT) on depression, anxiety and quality of life of the subjects.It can be argued that a compassionate approach is appropriate for people with systemic lupus disease because it is consistent with their daily lives and behaviors during the day.