THE EFFECT OF PROCESSING-BASED COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY ON RUMINATION AND WORRY OF NURSES DURING THE CORONA CRISIS EPIDEMIC

With the onset of the Corona crisis, nurses suffered from many psychological problems that needed interventions. The present study aimed to determinate the effect of process-based cognitive behavioral therapy on rumination and worry of the nurses during the Corona crisis epidemic.

The present research method was semi-experimental with pre-test and post-test along with a control group. The statistical population was all the nurses of Shahid Beheshti and Shahid Yahyanejad hospitals in Babol City in 2021. The statistical sample size was 30 people, which were selected by convenience sampling method and randomly assigned by lottery method to two experimental and control groups. The process-based cognitive behavioral therapy was implemented in 10 sessions of 90 minutes for the experimental group, and the control group did not receive any training. Nalen-Hoeksma, Maro's rumination, and Penn state worry questionnaires were used as research tools to collect data. Data analysis was done with descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and univariate covariance analysis using SPSS version 22 software at a statistical level of 0.05.

The results showed that process-based cognitive behavioral therapy had an effect on rumination and worry of the studied nurses (P<0.001). The amount of this effect based on the eta coefficient was 0.48 on rumination and 0.53 on worry.

According to the results of this research, it is suggested that health-field consultants and planners expand interventions according to process-based cognitive behavioral therapy to increase nurses' awareness of occupational concerns.