The Effect of Psychoeducation Based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Applied to Patients Diagnosed With Generalized Anxiety Disorder on Cognitive Avoidance Levels and Coping Attitudes

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Status

Active, not recruiting

Conditions

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Treatments

Other: The initiative was not implemented.

Other: Psychoeducation Based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Applied to Patients Diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06972563

Gaziantep Üniversitesi

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will be conducted to determine the effects of acceptance and commitment therapy-based psychoeducation on cognitive avoidance levels and coping attitudes in patients diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder.

H0: Acceptance and commitment therapy-based psychoeducation has no effect on the cognitive avoidance levels and coping attitudes of patients diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder.

H1: Acceptance and commitment therapy-based psychoeducation reduces the cognitive avoidance levels of patients diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder.

H2: Acceptance and commitment therapy-based psychoeducation affects the coping attitudes of patients diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder.

Enrollment

60 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 65 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Having been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder according to DSM-5 diagnostic criteria and receiving outpatient treatment
Being literate
Having no problems understanding or speaking Turkish
Being in the 18-65 age group
Having not received such training in the last 6 months

Exclusion criteria

Those diagnosed with another comorbid mental illness Patients with a mental condition that makes cooperation impossible, such as intellectual disability or memory impairment
The illiterate
Patients who do not consent to be interviewed