The effect of positive psychological interventions on resilience, anxiety, depression and quality of life of of Multiple sclerosis patients

Determining the effect of positive thinking techniques on resilience, anxiety and depression and the quality of life of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS)

Clinical trial with control group, with parallel groups, single-blind, randomized, phase 0 on 20 patients, was used for randomization.

MS Clinic of Qaim Mashhad Hospital. The analyst was blinded. Patients in the intervention group will undergo group therapy sessions (positive psychological interventions) for 14 sessions of 90 minutes. And in the control group, no psychological treatment will be done for the patients. And during this time, a movie will be played for them. Finally, three questionnaires of resilience and quality of life of patients with MS, before and after the intervention, and Leviband's anxiety, stress and depression questionnaire are evaluated. . After the end of the treatment, the control group will receive two sessions of positive intervention training. The treatment method used will be planned based on the Rashid and Seligman treatment protocol.

Admission: Age between 18-60 years, minimum education diploma, diagnosis of MS, no drug addiction, no psychiatric diseases. Failure to enter: lack of informed consent to participate in the study, failure to participate in at least 2 treatment sessions, failure to complete the questionnaire

Patients in the intervention group will undergo treatment sessions (positive psychology interventions) for 14 sessions of 90 minutes. Control group: In the control group, no psychological treatment will be done for the patients. And during this time, a movie will be played for them. After the end of the treatment, the control group will receive two sessions of positive intervention training.

Resilience; Quality of Life

In this study, the block randomization method will be used to generate a sequence of random numbers. In this method, 5 blocks of size 4 and 10 blocks of size 2 are randomly selected from the combination of letters A and B with a table of random numbers. The list of blocks with size two is 1:AB and 2:BA. The list of blocks with size four is: 1:AABB, 2:ABBA, 3:BBAA, 4:BAAB, 5:BABA, 6:ABAB. To select blocks of size 2, 10 numbers are randomly selected from the table of random numbers, then if this number is from 0 to 4, the first block is selected, and if the number is from 5 to 9, the second block is selected. To select blocks of size 4, 5 numbers between 1 and 6 are randomly selected from the table of random numbers, then if this number is 1, the first block is size 4 and if the selected number is 2, then the second block and so on for other blocks. are selected.

This randomized, single-blind clinical trial will be conducted with a control group in patients referred to the MS clinic of Ghaem Hospital. Blinding means that the analyst is not aware of the intervention and control groups.