The Effect of Cognitive-Behavioral Group Therapy on the Obsessive Rumination and Sleep Quality of Multiple Sclerosis (MS)

The aim of this research was to study the effect of cognitive-behavioral group therapy on the obsessive rumination and sleep quality of multiple sclerosis (MS). The sample include 30 person (15 group control and 15 group experimental) M.S the were selected randomly and This design of the study is pretest, post test control group. The were requested to answer obsessive rumination Nolen & Hocsma & Maru (1991) scale and quality insomnia Piterzborg (1989) scale questionnaire. For analyzing the results we used covariance (MANCOVA). The results of data analysis showed that cognitive-behavioral group therapy caused the decrease of obsessive rumination and a increase sleep quality of experimental group of multiple sclerosis in comparison to the witness groups.

Keywords:

cognitive-behavioral group therapy , obsessive rumination , sleep quality