Comparing the Effectiveness of Combination Therapy Based on Psychological Resilience and Mindfulness to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety, Depression, Stress, and Job Burnout in the Staff of Isfahan Regional Electric Company

Abstract

This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of combination therapy based on resilience and mindfulness with cognitive behavioral therapy on job burnout, anxiety, stress, and depression in the staff of Isfahan Regional Electric Company who suffered from a mixed anxiety-depressive disorder. This was a quasi-experimental study with a pre-test-post-test design and a control group. In 2021, the statistical universe included the whole male staff of Isfahan Regional Electric Company. 45 employees were selected using a purposeful sampling method based on entry and exit criteria and randomly assigned to one control group and two experimental groups. Maslach's job burnout inventory (MBI) and the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-21) were used to obtain the data. Statistical analyses were conducted using SPSS-23 and the multivariate covariance test and Tukey’s post hoc procedure. Both applied therapeutic methods (CBT and Combined therapy) reduced anxiety, stress, depression, and burnout significantly in experimental group members. However, post hoc analyses revealed that there was no statistically significant difference between two methods for reducing dependent variables. According to the findings, the resilience and mindfulness-based combination therapy can be used in conjunction with other therapeutic protocols to ameliorate psychological disturbances such as mood and anxiety symptoms as well as job burnout in individuals.

Keywords

•  anxiety
• cognitive behavioral therapy
• combination therapy based on psychological resilience and mindfulness
• depression
• job burnout