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Ghadampour E, Gholami S, Bavazin F, Omidi Moghadam E. The Effectiveness of Intensive Psychodynamic Therapy with an Anxiety Modulating Approach on Coping Strategies with Perceived Tension and Decision-Making Styles in Teenage Girls Attempting Suicide by Chemicals: A Quasi-Experimental Study. JRUMS 2025; 23 (10) :873-886
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Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran.
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Background and Objectives: Teenage girls who attempt chemical suicide have great difficulty coping with tensions and making constructive decisions. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of intensive psychodynamic therapy with an anxiety modulating approach on coping strategies with perceived tension and decision-making styles in teenage girls attempting suicide by chemicals.
Materials and Methods: The current research was a semi-experimental type of pretest-posttest with a control group. The statistical population included all teenage girls who tried to commit chemical suicide who were admitted to the Poisoning Emergency of the Nomadic Martyrs Training and Treatment Center in Khorramabad City in 2023. Out of these, 30 people were selected by convenience sampling and randomly assigned into the experimental and control groups (15 people in each group). The research tools were Jalovis's Perceived Stress Strategies Questionnaire (1984), Scott & Bruce's Decision Making Styles Questionnaire (1985), and McCullough's Short-Term Intensive Psychodynamic Therapy with an Anxiety Modulating Approach Protocol (1997). Data were analyzed using multivariate covariance test.
Results: Intensive psychodynamic therapy with an anxiety modulating approach had a significant effect on coping strategies with perceived tension and decision-making styles in adolescent girls attempting chemical suicide (Eta=0.54, p<0.001). This effectiveness was also observed in the dimensions of coping strategies and decision-making styles (Eta>0.45, p<0.001).
Conclusion: The current study showed that intensive psychodynamic therapy with an anxiety modulating approach has led to the use of adaptive coping strategies and improved decision-making ability in adolescent girls attempting chemical suicide.
Key words: Intensive psychodynamic therapy, Perceived stress scale, Decision-making, Suicide attempt, Women
Funding: This study did not have any funds.
Conflict of interest: None declared.
Ethical considerations: The Ethics Committee of Lorestan University approved this study (Code of Ethics: IR.LUMS.REC.1402.164).
Authors’ contributions:
- Conceptualization: Ezatolah Ghadampour
- Methodology: Ezatolah Ghadampour
- Data collection: Sina Gholami, Fateme Bavazin, Elham Omidi Moghadam
- Formal analysis: Sina Gholami
- Supervision: Ezatolah Ghadampour
- Project administration: Sina Gholami
- Writing - original draft: Fateme Bavazin, Sina Gholami
- Writing – review & editing: Sina Gholami
Keywords: Intensive psychodynamic therapy, Perceived stress scale, Decision-making, Suicide attempt, Women
Type of Study: Research |
Subject:
Psychiatry
Received: 2024/07/30 | Accepted: 2024/12/31 | Published: 2025/02/22
Received: 2024/07/30 | Accepted: 2024/12/31 | Published: 2025/02/22
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