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Study aim
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investigate The effectiveness of Stress Management With Cognitive-Behavioral Approach on Distress Tolerance and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies in patients with Multiple Sclerosis
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Design
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Clinical trial with control group, randomized, phase 2 on 30 patients,
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Settings and conduct
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Cognitive-behavioral stress management treatment sessions will be held in groups for 120 minutes at the Chronic Disease Care Research Center of the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences. After 10 sessions of treatment, all subjects (experiment and control groups) will answer the questions of fatigue questionnaires and coping styles again in one post-test session. In order to observe the ethical principles in the research, after the intervention, briefing sessions will be held for the control group.
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Participants/Inclusion and exclusion criteria
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Inclusion criteria include: 18-45 years old, definitive diagnosis by a neurologist, informed consent to participate in the study
Exclusion criteria included: receiving psychiatric treatment, absence of more than two sessions in educational interventions, willingness to leave the study
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Intervention groups
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The strategies and techniques used in the sessions are taken from Anthony, Ironson, and Schneiderman, a practical guide to cognitive-behavioral stress management, written in 2007 and translated by Al-Mohammad, Jokar, and Neshat Doost in 2009. The number of sessions is 10 sessions and the duration of the sessions is 120 minutes. While each session consists of two parts: one part includes stress management techniques that form the cognitive part of stress management therapy and the other part, relaxation exercises that teach the behavioral part of stress management treatment.
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Main outcome variables
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Stress Management With Cognitive-Behavioral Approach, Distress Tolerance, Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies,