THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTION FOR ANGER MANAGEMENT ON MENTAL HEALTH OF INFERTILE WOMEN

Nowadays, infertility is a stressful problem and has an undesirable influence on
psychological states of the couples. This research aims to determine efficiency of training courses of
anger control on their mental health
Materials & Methods: This research is a semi-experimental method under pre and post tests. 90 infertile
women referred to Sarem Clinic in Tehran and filled up Spielberger anger expression scale
questionnaire, among them 32 candidates obtained the highest score. They also were selected
according to voluntary sampling method and were divided into experimental and control groups,
randomly. Subsequently, experimental group participated in training course of anger management held
upon cognitive- behavioral approach within 10 sessions (each session was 90 min.), the control group
did not receive any instruction. General health questionnaire (28 questions) was used in two stages of
pre and post tests. Covariance and Khido tests were applied for the data analysis to determine the
frequency of infertility.
Results: The results showed that training of anger control upon cognitive- behavioral approach caused
to increase the mental health among individuals in the experimental group.
Conclusion: It was indicated that training course has a significant effect on increasing mental health.
Therefore, such trainings are advised beside other medical instruction as a part of treatment