The Effect of Clay Therapy on Anxiety, Depression, and Happiness in People with Physical Disabilities
| Autor: | Alireza Saadatjoo, Shahnaz Tabiee, Amir Nazari, Hamid Nazari |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
030506 rehabilitation
Physical disability media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Mental health Test (assessment) 03 medical and health sciences Intervention (counseling) Happiness Mann–Whitney U test medicine Anxiety 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences medicine.symptom 0305 other medical science Psychology Depression (differential diagnoses) 050104 developmental & child psychology media_common Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Modern Care Journal. |
| ISSN: | 2423-7876 2228-6918 |
| DOI: | 10.5812/modernc.83455 |
| Popis: | Background: Physical disability is a damage that limits the major activities of a person's life and leads to anxiety, depression, mental health problems, and lowers happiness levels. In light of these consequences, it seems necessary to carry out some intervention to reduce depression and anxiety as well as promote the happiness of people with physical impairment. Objectives: Therefore, this study sets out to investigate the effect of clay therapy on anxiety, depression, and happiness in physically impaired individuals under the Welfare Organization support in Qaen city. Methods: In this randomized controlled clinical trial, 50 individuals with a physical disability, under the Welfare Organization support in Qaen city, in the year 2016, who fulfilled the criteria for entering the study, were selected by convenience sampling and assigned to two groups, the experiment group (25 people) and the control group (25 people), through systematic random sampling. The experiment group received a clay-working program for 12 sessions of 60 minutes each (two sessions per week). The data collection tool was a demographic questionnaire, a Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-21), and the Oxford Happiness Inventory. Data were analyzed using SPSS 15 software, chi-square, independent t test, Mann-Whitney U test, Friedman test, and Wilcoxon test. Results: The results of the present study show that the mean score of happiness after completing the sixth session was significantly higher in the experiment group than in the control group. The mean depression and anxiety scores after the intervention in the experiment group were significantly lower than that in the control group, while the mean score of happiness after the clay therapy was significantly higher in the experiment group than that in the control group (P < 0.001). Conclusions: Based on the results, clay therapy has the potential to reduce anxiety and depression as well as increase the happiness of people with physical impairment under Welfare Organization support. |
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