The effectiveness of group schema therapy on health anxiety and treatment adherence in coronary heart disease patients
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of group schema therapy on health anxiety and treatment adherence in coronary heart disease patients.This study was a quasi-experimental design with pre-test, post-test, and two experimental and control groups.The statistical population included all patients with coronary heart disease referred to hospitals in Mashhad.The research sample was 30 people using the available sampling method, including attrition, who were randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups (15 people in each group).In order to measure the research variables, the health anxiety questionnaires of Warwick & Salkovski (2002) and treatment adherence questionnaires of Morisky et al. (2008) were administered to the sample group members.The experimental group members underwent Young's (2003) group schema therapy for 8 sessions of 90 minutes, and the control group did not receive any training.The data were analyzed using the multivariate analysis of covariance test using SPSS-27 software.The findings showed that the pre-test probability value for the variables of health anxiety and treatment adherence compared to the post-test values of those variables was less than 0.05, indicating their significant effect at the five percent error level (P<0.005).The results showed that group schema therapy is effective for health anxiety and treatment adherence in coronary heart disease patients, so it is suggested that the group schema therapy program be considered as an effective treatment in coronary heart disease patients.
Authors: Toktam Azizi, Asma Fouladi
Institution: Tabaran Institute of Higher Education
Language: English
Subfield: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7203476641