The Effectiveness of Positive Psychotherapy on Mental Endurance, Self- Compassion and Resilience of Infertile Women

Background: Infertility creates many psychological problems forinfertile women. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness ofpositive psychotherapy on mental endurance, self-compassion andresilience of infertile women.Methods: This study was a randomized controlled clinical trial. Thestatistical population of the present study included infertile women inTehran in 2017 who visited the infertility centers of Hope and doctorShariati. In this study among the infertile women who referred toinfertility center of Tehran, 30 women were selected and placedrandomly in the test group and the control group. The test groupreceived the intervention in two and a half months at ten sessions of90 minutes. However, the control group did not receive thisintervention during the research process. The questionnaire used inthis study included Psychological distress tolerance questionnaire.Resilience Scale and self-compassion questionnaire. The data wereanalyzed through analysis of covariance using statistical softwareSPSS24.Results: The results of the analysis showed that positivepsychotherapy has been effective on mental endurance, selfcompassionand resilience of infertile women (P-value < 0.001).Therefore, it has been able to improve mental endurance, selfcompassionand resilience of infertile women .Conclusion: Based on the findings of this study, it can be concludedthat positive psychotherapy can be used as an effective treatment formental endurance, self-compassion and resilience of infertilewomen.

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Mental Endurance , Self-Compassion , Resilience , Infertility , Positive