DOI: 10.5176/2251-1865_CBP68
Authors: Kamran Yazdanbakhsh, Hassan Rezaei, Mohsen Dereke and Smaeil Amini
Abstract: Background: one of the widespread psychological problems, particularly among HIV-Afflicted patient people is depression. The objective of this research is study about the effectiveness group cognitive behavioral therapy on depression diminishes among HIV-Afflicted male addicted people in central prison of Kermanshah.
Methods: the method of this research is semi-experimental and the strategy is pre test- posttest with control group. The statistical society consists of 150 HIV -Afflicted male addicted people in central prison of Kermanshah. As available sampling, 50 of persons were chosen and divided equally into two (N: 25 experimental, N: 25 control) groups. Both of these groups were tested with beck depression pretest, then experimental group members were treated with cognitive behavioral treatment over12 sessions and control group members weren’t treated. After interference sessions both of these groups were retested.Resulted from dependent student T test to Within a group comparison and indent student T test to the group comparison were analyzed with spss software.
Finding: The finding of this research showed cognitive behavioral treatment diminished the depression among the experiment group members.
Result: considering the finding of cognitive behavioral: interference to cure the HIV- Afflicted male addicted people has an important role.
Keywords: cognitive behavioral therapy, Depression, HIV, addicted prison
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