Efficacy Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) on the Life Quality and Resilience of Those Recuperated from Recovered Covid-19 Patients

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the efficacy of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) on the life quality and resilience of those recuperated from Covid-19. The research method was quasi-experimental with pre-test, post-test, control group and three-month follow-up period design. The statistical population of the study included those recuperated from Covid-19 with the record of hospitalization in the city of Bandar Abbas in the winter of 2020. Twenty-seven recovered people from Covid-19 were selected via the snowball method and randomly 13 of them were accommodated into experimental (7 males and 6 females) and 14 of them were accommodated into control groups (6 males and 8 females). The experimental group received ACT during two-and-a-half months (in 10 sessions). The applied questionnaires in this study included resilience questionnaire and life quality scale. The data from the study were analyzed through mixed ANOVA via SPSS-23 statistical software. The results showed that ACT has been effective on the life quality (F=38.75; Eta=0.61; P<0001) and resilience (F=39.90; Eta=0.62; P<0001) of recovered Covid-19 patients with the record of hospitalization in a way that it succeeded in improving their life quality and resilience. According to the findings of the present study, ACT can be used as an efficient method to improve the life quality and resilience of those recovered from Covid-19 through employing six main processes of acceptance, fusion, observer self, relationship with the present time, value and committed action.

Keywords

• acceptance and commitment therapy (act)
• life quality
• resilience
• people recuperated from covid-19