Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran , h.rezayi2@yahoo.com
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Background: Asthma as one of the most common diseases and one of the most serious health problems can have many physical and psychological problems. Therefore, the use of psychological interventions in order to modify the psychological correlates is an unavoidable necessity.
Aims: The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of stress management training on perceived stress and self-control in students with asthma.
Methods: The present study is applied research and in terms of data collection is a quasi-experimental study with pretest-posttest with control group. The statistical population of this study is all Students with asthma in Shiraz. The sample consisted of 30 students with asthma who were selected by purposive sampling method and randomly assigned to the stress management training group (15 people) and control group (15 people). Subjects before and after stress management training in experimental and control groups responded to the perceived stress scale (Cohen and et al., 1983) and Self-Control scale (Tangney and et al., 2004). Stress management training was performed using the Hosseini-Naveh and et al. (2023) stress management training in the experimental group, and the control group did not receive any intervention during this period. The collected data were analyzed by multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) using SPSS.27 software.
Results: The results of multivariate analysis of covariance showed that stress management training reduced perceived stress and increased self-control scores in students with asthma in post-test stage (P< 0.001).
Conclusion: Based on the results of this study, stress management training can reduce perceived stress in asthma patients and increase their self-control, so it is recommended as an appropriate training program for improving psychological correlates of asthma patients.
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Special Received: 2024/01/30 | Accepted: 2024/04/3 | Published: 2024/07/14
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