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Introduction: Disability in pregnancy is one of the saddest incidents in female’s lives that affects the physical and mental health of infertile females. The purpose of the present study was to design a protocol based on acceptance and commitment of infertile females and its clinical efficacy on increasing the psychological flexibility of this group.
Methods: The study was of a quasi-experimental type with pre-test and post-test. The study population consisted of all infertile females that had referred to the Tabriz Milad Infertility Clinic in the spring of 2015. Thirty of participants that had a score of below average in the questionnaire psychological flexibility (acceptance and practice) were randomly assigned to two experimental groups. After design of protocols, resources on infertile acceptance and commitment therapy related to psychological and emotional mood disorders were studied. In consultation with ACBS members, this protocol was implemented in eight sessions for the experimental group and the control group did not receive any intervention. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) test was used to analyze the data.
Results: The mean scores of the experimental group in the pre-test was lower than the mean scores of the control group. However, in the post-test, the mean scores of the experimental group were higher than the control group. The main effect of inter-in-person variance analysis was presented for the experimental and control groups. The F value for both groups was 0.41, which is significant at the level of 0.04 (P <0.05).
Conclusions: According to the results, the present treatment protocol was affective for increasing psychological flexibility of females with infertility.

 

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Introduction: Feeling of inability respecting fertility and common social reactions in society towards the infertile women might be the causes of many psychological pressures for this indivdulas. Therefore, the aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of religious cognitive-behavioral therapy and positivie psycho therapy on self-criticism and psychological distressing in infertile women of Ahvaz metropolitan.
Methods: The research method was experimental with pretest-posttest, control group and follow-up. The studied statistical population consisted of infertile women who had referred to infertility medical and health centers in 1399 for infertility treatment. 60 subjects were selected as sample by purposive sampling method and randomly assigned in two treatment groups; religion based cognitive-behavioral therapy and positivie psycho therapy and control groups, 20 indivdulas each. To collect data Thompson and Zeroff (2004) Self-Criticism Scale and Kessler et al. (2002) Psychological Distress Scale-10 were implemented. Data were analyzied by applying multivariaye analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) and Bonferroni post hoc test using SPSS-24 software.
Results: The results showed that in the post- test and follow- up stages, religious cognitive behavioral therapy and positivist psycho therapy were effective in reducing self-criticism and psychological distress (P <0.001).  The finding also indicated that in the post-test and follow-up stages, no significant difference was observed between the effectiveness of the two interventions on self-criticism and psychological distress (P <0.05).
Conclusions: The results showed the effectiveness of religious behavioral cognitive therapy and positivity psychotherapy in reduceing self-criticism and psychological distress in infertile women. It is recommended that these methods be used as complementry therapies along with other medical therapies..