Mozen F, Adhami Moghadam F, Adhami Moghadam P, Abdollahi Shahvali E, Sahebalzamani M, Hemmatipour A. Investigating the Effect of teaching emotional regulation strategies on improving the quality of life of patients with macular degeneration. 3 2025; 15 (2) :47-59
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Background and Objectives: The eye, as a sensitive organ of the body, may suffer from various diseases during life, which affects the pigment cells of the retina and photoreceptors, and as a result, the vision of the patient decreases and eventually leads to blindness. It leads Among these diseases, macular degeneration or macular degeneration is age-related, so the present study aims to investigate the effect of teaching cognitive emotion regulation strategies on improving the quality of life in patients with macular degeneration in selected eye clinics in Tehran. It was done in 2017.
Materials and Methods: This study was conducted in a semi-experimental manner with a pre-test and post-test with a control group. The study sample consisted of 90 patients with macular damage who were collected through convenience sampling and randomly assigned to two groups. Before the intervention, a quality of life questionnaire was completed by both groups. Group training sessions on cognitive emotion regulation strategies were conducted using lectures and educational pamphlets once a week at an eye clinic in Tehran for the intervention group. After the intervention, the questionnaire was completed by both groups. The data were analyzed using the MANCVA (multivariate) analysis of covariance method with SPSS 18.
Results:
The findings of the research showed that the quality of life changed by 4.58 before the intervention and 6.82 after the intervention. Despite the control of the pre-test effect, between the intervention and control groups in terms of the post-test, the average scores of the quality of life (F=607.92) there is a significant difference (P<0.01).
Conclusion: The present study showed that the cognitive emotion regulation strategies group was effective in improving the quality of life (P<0.001). This result has important implications for the education and promotion of mental health in ophthalmological patients.
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General Received: 2024/08/28 | Accepted: 2025/03/16 | Published: 2025/03/17