Efficacy of Unified Trans-Diagnostic Treatment on the Health Anxiety and Emotional Self-Regulation in the Women with the Covid-19 Pandemic Anxiety

Covid-19 pandemic causes psychological and emotional turbulence and emergence of anxiety in many people in the society. Therefore, the present study was conducted to investigate the efficacy of online unified trans-diagnostic treatment on the health anxiety and emotional self-regulation in the women with the Covid-19 pandemic anxiety.

the present study was quasi-experimental with pretest, posttest and control group design. The statistical population of the present study included the women with Covid-19 pandemic anxiety in the city of Isfahan in the winter of 2020. 34 women with Covid-19 anxiety were selected through purposive sampling method and were randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups (each group of 17 patients). The experimental group received ten seventy-five-minute unified trans-diagnostic treatment sessions online (Barlo et.al, 2011). The applied questionnaires in this study included Covid-19 anxiety questionnaire (Ali Pour et.al, 2019), health anxiety questionnaire (Salkovskis, Warwick, 2002 and emotional self-regulation questionnaire (Gross, John, 2003). The data from the study were analyzed through ANCOVA method.

the results showed that the online unified trans-diagnostic treatment has significant effect on the health anxiety and emotional self-regulation of the women with the Covid-19 pandemic anxiety (p<0.001) and succeeded in the reduce health anxiety and improve emotional self-regulation in these women.

according to the findings of the present study it can be concluded that online unified trans-diagnostic treatment can be used as an efficient treatment to improve health anxiety and emotional self-regulation of the women with Covid 19 pandemic anxiety through employing techniques such as identifying emotions, training emotional awareness and diagnostic reevaluation.