The effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy(ACT) and positive cognitive-behavioral therapy(PCBT) on the psychological disquietude's of patients with chronic pain

The purpose of this study was to compare of the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy and positive cognitive-behavioral therapy on the psychological disquietudes of patients with chronic pain.

The present study was semi-experimental with pretest, posttest, and follow-up design with a three-month with control-group. The sample of thise study included of 45 people of patients with chronic pain referring to Rasool Akram Hospital of Tehran sity. selected by available sampling method and were assigned randomly into two experimental groups and one control group. three groups completed Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scall (DASS-21) in pre-test, post-test and follow-up. 2 group received intervention duration in 8 sessions of 90 minutes a week for 1 session, acceptance and commitment therapy and positive cognitive behavioral therapy. and did not received the control group any intervention. at the end was performed post-test of all three groups. Data were analyzed by SPSS- 25 and using descriptive statistics indices and repeated measure.

There was significant difference between acceptance and commitment-based therapy and positive cognitive-behavioral therapy with control group on the psychological disquietudes of patients with chronic pain (p<0/001). But there was no significant difference between acceptance and commitment-based therapy and positive cognitive-behavioral therapy on the psychological disquietudes of patients with chronic pain (p> 0/05).

acceptance and commitment-based therapy and positive cognitive-behavioral therapy can be used as a useful intervention method for decreasing on the psychological disquietudes of patients with chronic pain.