The effect of Acceptance and Commitment therapy on Depression and Quality of Life among women with chronic pain during COVID-19 pandemic lockdown

The corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is one of the most important healthcare and societal challenges to have emerged in the last century. Therefore, a primary aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of acceptance and commitment therapy on depression and quality of life among women with chronic pain during COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.

In a quasi-experimental pre-test-post-test design with a control group, 35 women with chronic pain after initial clinical evaluation and research conditions were selected and randomly divided into two groups of acceptance and commitment therapy matrix (n = 18) and control (n = 17). The experimental group received 6 sessions of weekly treatment based on acceptance and commitment by matrix method. All participants completed the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-ΙΙ) and the World Health Organization Quality of Life Questionnaire (WHOQOL-BREF) in two stages: pretest and posttest. The collected data were evaluated utilizing SPSS V. 23. Our descriptive statistics, comprising the mean and Standard Deviation (SD), as well as empirical and statistical studies, included covariance analysis (ANCOVA) and variance uniformity Levene. (P > 0.05).

  The results showed that weekly treatment based on acceptance and commitment by matrix method had a significant effect on reducing depression (F= 1.893, P=0.151), and increasing quality of life F = 5.431; P =0.003) of women with chronic pain during COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.

The effectiveness of group psychotherapy based on acceptance and commitment by matrix method has a significant effect on reducing depression and increasing quality of life and reducing among women with chronic pain during COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.