TY - JOUR JF - QHMS JO - Intern Med Today VL - 24 IS - 4 PY - 2018 Y1 - 2018/9/01 TI - Investigating the Effectiveness of Group-Based Psychotherapy on Interpersonal Problems in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis TT - بررسی اثربخشی روان درمانی راه حل محور گروهی بر مشکلات بین فردی مبتلایان به مولتیپل اسکلروزیس N2 - Aims: According to the nature of multiple sclerosis (MS) disease, the patients with MS are always facing with problems in their interpersonal communications. Therefore, the study investigates the effectiveness of group-based solution-focused therapy on interpersonal problems in patients with multiple sclerosis Materials and methods: The research method was semi-experimental with pretest/posttest and control group design. A number of 40 members of Multiple Sclerosis Association of Mashhad were selected through convenience sampling and assigned to experimental and control groups randomly. The experimental group has been received group-based solution-focused intervention and the control group was in wait list. To gather the data Barkham, Hardy, and Startup’s Inventory of Interpersonal Problems (IIP-32) was used. The obtained data analyzed by MANCOVA test through SPSS-23 software. Findings: According to the mean of the interpersonal problems of the experimental group rather than the mean of the interpersonal problems of control group, it can be concluded that the group-based solution-focused therapy lead to reduce the interpersonal problems of experimental group (P>.001, F= 81.31). The effect size was .69. Conclusion: According to group-based solution-focused therapy has a non-pathological view as communicative approach, could be effective on resolving the interpersonal problems of patients with MS. SP - 294 EP - 300 AU - Hosseini Tabatabaei, R. AU - Bolghan-Abadi, M. AU - Bazargan, M. AD - Young Researcher and Elite Club, Neyshabur Branch, Islamic Azad University, Neyshabur, Iran KW - Multiple Sclerosis [https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/record/ui?ui=D009103] KW - Anxiety [https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/record/ui?ui=D001007] KW - Psychotherapy KW - Group [https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/record/ui?ui=D011615] UR - http://imtj.gmu.ac.ir/article-1-2936-en.html ER -