Comparing the Effectiveness of Family Resilience Training, with Cognitive-Spiritual Hope Training, on Compassion Fatigue and Distress Tolerance in Caregivers of Renal Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis

Kidney diseases are one of the physical diseases that make a person and his lifestyle face various problems that unintentionally involve their families and require their special care, which can affect the mental state of the caregiver. to damage The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of family resilience training with cognitive-spiritual hope training on compassion fatigue and distress tolerance in caregivers of kidney patients undergoing hemodialysis.

The research method was an experimental type with two experimental and control groups with a pre-test and post-test design and a 45-day follow-up. Research 60 caregivers were selected through available sampling and were randomly divided into three groups of 20 people, the people participating in the research in three stages to the compassion fatigue questionnaire (Khosravi et al., 2021) and Simmons questionnaire. and Gaher (2005) answered, the collected data were analyzed at two levels of descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and inferential variance statistics with repeated measurements and Bonferroni's post hoc test. SPSS version 24 software was used for data analysis.

Data analysis showed that teaching hope in a cognitive-spiritual way on compassion fatigue (F = 16.75, P < 0.01) and distress tolerance (F = 6.86, P < 0.01) has had a significant impact and there was no significant difference in terms of effectiveness.

According to the findings of the present study, it is possible to use cognitive-spiritual hope training and family resilience training to reduce compassion fatigue and increase distress tolerance in caregivers of kidney patients undergoing hemodialysis.