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The Rational Emotive Behavioral Group Therapy for Depression and Anger of Patients with Multiple Sclerosis

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The current study aims to determine the effectiveness of rational emotive behavioral therapy (REBT) base group therapy on anger and depression of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). This randomized controlled trial study conducted with pre-test, post-test, and control group. Data was collected using the Beck depression inventory (BDI) and State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory 2 (STAXI-2). A total of 18 patients from the MS Society of Zahedan southeast of Iran participated in this study and randomly assigned to the intervention and control groups. The intervention group takes rational emotive behavioral therapy over 89-min sessions. The results of ANOVA repeated measures showed that rational emotive behavioral therapy has significantly reduced the depression of patients with multiple sclerosis (P < 0.05). However, the anger of these patients was not significantly reduced after treatment. The findings of this research indicate that REBT is not reducing the anger of patients with MS. These findings may be a guideline for experts to examine the other approaches for reducing the anger problem of these patients.

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The current study supported by the Zahedan University of Medical Science (ZAUMS).

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    Homa Shahkaram, Shahab Lotfinia, Azizollah Mojahed & Yazdan Madadjoo

  2. Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University of Kermanshah, Kermanshah, Iran

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Homa Shahkaram performed the therapy, and Erfan Farhangian gathered the data. Shahab Lotfinia and Yazdan Madadjoo authored the article. Shahab Lotfinia, Yazdan Madadjoo, and Azizollah Mojahed provided the final review. The authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Shahkaram, H., Lotfinia, S., Mojahed, A. et al. The Rational Emotive Behavioral Group Therapy for Depression and Anger of Patients with Multiple Sclerosis. SN Compr. Clin. Med. 2, 770–774 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42399-020-00331-y

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