Effectiveness Of Self-Healing Therapy On Well, Being-Satisfaction, Body Image And Anxiety Tolerance Of Women With Bulimia Nervosa

This study aimed to determine the effect of self-healing training on quality of life (well-beingsatisfaction), body image and tolerance of anxiety in people with bulimia nervosa.

This study was quasiexperimental (pre-test post-test with the control group). The statistical population of the present study included all women with bulimia nervosa who were referred to specialists and medical centers in Isfahan in 1398. 30 women were selected by purposive sampling and randomly placed in experimental and control groups. Data collection tools were Simmons and Gahr (2005) Distress Tolerance Questionnaire, WHOQOLBREF Quality of Life-Short Questionnaire and Littleton et al. (2005) Fear of Body Image Questionnaire. The experimental group underwent 12 sessions of self-healing training but the group did not receive a training certificate. Multivariate analysis of covariance was used to analyze the data.

The results showed that self-healing training has a significant effect on increasing the quality of life of people with binge eating disorder (P = 0.05). In addition, self-healing training has a significant effect on increasing the quality of life of people with binge eating disorder (P = 0.05). Also, selfhealing training has a significant effect on increasing the anxiety tolerance of people with binge eating disorder (P = 0.05).

According to this study, self-healing training can be used to increase stress tolerance, increase quality of life (welfare-satisfaction) and reduce fear of body image in women with bulimia nervosa.