Investigating the effect of emotional focus therapy on the perceived stress caused by marital relationships in patients with burn wounds who referred to wound clinics in Arak city in 2023

Effect of emotional focus therapy on perceived martial stress in patient with burn wounds

In this study, the effect of an emotion-focused intervention on perceived stress from marital relationships in burn injury patients is investigated. Forty patients are enrolled and randomly assigned to intervention and control groups. The study does not have a waitlist control phase and is not blinded.

40 patients with burn wounds referring to wound clinic located in Arak city are selected based on the conditions of entry into the study and after obtaining consent to participate in the research, they will be randomly divided into two intervention and control groups. The couples are divided into two groups. Individuals are provided in the form of emotion-oriented intervention group therapy in the counseling and psychotherapy clinic

Inclusion criteria Without any psychotherapy history in the previous six months Having burn wounds Being married and having a marital relationship in the last six months Without any mental history disorders Being between 18 - 45 years old Without any amputated limb. Exclusion Criteria: pregnancy-Experiencing severe marital disputes

Intervention group: Exciting group intervention: The members of the intervention group participated in 8 face-to-face training and group counseling sessions, one session per week and the duration of each session was between 100 and 120 minutes. The counseling sessions were on Thursdays from 8 am to 11 am In the wound clinic of Arak city, phone follow-up was done to make an appointment

Perceived stress from marital relationships in patients with burn wounds

Randomization of patients was done by random allocation sampling in two stages.In this way, it was used to create a random sequence of two groups; in such a way that one of the study groups was considered to be lion and the other group was considered to be line and based on the desired sample size, a coin was tossed and people were divided into two random allocation groups. Sealed non-transparent envelopes were used to hide the random allocation.In this way, based on the sample size of the research, a number of envelopes with aluminum coating were prepared and each of the random sequences created was recorded on a card and the cards were placed in the letter envelopes in order. In order to preserve the random sequence, the outer surface of the envelopes was numbered in the same order. Finally, the lid of the letter envelopes was glued and placed in a box. At the time of registration of the participants, based on the order in which the eligible participants entered the study, one of the envelopes was opened and the assigned group of that participant was revealed.