Afrina Dorostkar moghadam1, Abdolhassanfarhangi2, Taher Tizdast3
The present study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of GMCT on EI and anxiety in women referring to the health homes. The study design was semi-experimental using a pre-test and post-test along with control group. The population of the study was women referring to Health Home of Tehran's Third district. Sampling method was voluntary. From among the women who referred to Health Home of Third District of Tehran, 30 were selected based on the inclusion criteria and after completing the questionnaires, 20 of them with the lowest scores in the questionnaires were randomly assigned to the experimental (10 subjects) and control (10 subjects) groups. After the pre-test, conducted using Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) and Bar–On Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire, during two months in 8 sessions of 120 minutes each week, the experimental group underwent GMCT based on Wells meta-cognitive therapy in a group of 10 people. All the subjects filled out the research questionnaires after completing treatment and the two-month follow-up, whereas the members of the control group got no intervention during the study. The subjects were post-tested with the same tool as pre-test. We analyzed the data using statistical descriptive methods to get the frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, standard error, multivariate analysis of covariance analysis, and single variable covariance analysis. The results showed that GMCT made meaningful changes in the experimental group's members, compared to the control group members, concerning reducing anxiety and enhancing EI.
