Impact of Thanksgiving on Improving the Participants’ Quality of Life in the Thanksgiving Workshop Download PDF

Thanksgiving can be defined as attention to the positive aspects of life. Noting that improve the quality of life is the most important elements to promote physical and mental health of the population; the researchers went on to examine the impact of their gratitude and optimism on improving the quality of life of the participants. This is a pilot quasi-experimental study. In this study, 16 participants who had inclusion criteria were selected by the convenience sampling method. A workshop was held in nine two-hour sessions, three times a week. Major titles were in the areas of thanksgiving for financial, physical and mental health, wealth, serving people in society, nature, family, friends and co-workers, self-concept, the talents and skills and achievements. The instrument in this study was 26-item Quality of life questionnaire that its validity and reliability have been confirmed in the country. In this questionnaire, minimum and maximum scores were 26 and 100. The average age of the samples was 38.31 ± 8.89. Most participants were in the age more than 40 years (43.8%). Mean QOL of patients before the intervention was 64.98 that increased to 76.03 after the intervention. Wilcoxon test was used for the mean comparison before and after the intervention. The difference was statistically significant (p-value <0.05). According to the findings of this study, gratitude and appreciation skills can be used as a method that affects the quality of people's lives to be raised. The researchers also suggest that studies be done with more samples size for further investigation.