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Darskhan M, Lotfi Kashani F, Vaziri S, Tavakol M. The Effectiveness of Self-Affirmation Interviews on the Quality of Life of Individuals with Asthma. J Health Res Commun 2026; 12 (1)
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Department of Psychology, TMS.C., Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
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Background and Objective: Improving the quality of life for individuals with asthma is a priority for health policymakers. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of self-affirmation interviews on the quality of life in this population.
Method: This study employed a pre-test/post-test intervention design with a control group and a two-month follow-up phase. The target population comprised all asthma patients who visited the Asthma and Allergy Specialty Clinic in Karaj during the second half of 2024. Among them, 40 individuals were randomly assigned to two groups of 20 (experimental and control). Participants completed a demographic information checklist and the Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (Marks et al., 1993). The experimental group received the self-affirmation interview intervention in five 90-minute group sessions, with a frequency of one session per week. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 24. Descriptive statistics (percentage, frequency, mean, and standard deviation) were calculated. Inferential analyses included the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Mauchly's test of sphericity, the Greenhouse-Geisser correction, repeated-measures ANOVA, and the Bonferroni post-hoc test.
Findings: The results showed that in all components of quality of life (physical effects, emotional effects, social effects, health-related concerns), there was a significant difference between the two groups in the pre-test, post-test, and follow-up stages, and the self-affirmation interview was able to significantly increase quality of life scores. Also, the results of the Bonferroni test indicated that this reduction was not only maintained immediately after the intervention but also during the follow-up period (p<0.05). Furthermore, the effect size results showed that 20.8%, 26.3%, 26.4%, and 26.9% of individual differences in the components of quality of life (physical effects, emotional effects, social effects, and health-related concerns) were due to self-affirmation interview training.
Conclusion: The results underscore the importance of self-affirmation interviews for asthma patients and suggest promising avenues for clinical interventions. Therefore, self-affirmation interviews may be utilized as a complementary treatment to facilitate meaningful improvements in asthma patients.
Method: This study employed a pre-test/post-test intervention design with a control group and a two-month follow-up phase. The target population comprised all asthma patients who visited the Asthma and Allergy Specialty Clinic in Karaj during the second half of 2024. Among them, 40 individuals were randomly assigned to two groups of 20 (experimental and control). Participants completed a demographic information checklist and the Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (Marks et al., 1993). The experimental group received the self-affirmation interview intervention in five 90-minute group sessions, with a frequency of one session per week. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 24. Descriptive statistics (percentage, frequency, mean, and standard deviation) were calculated. Inferential analyses included the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Mauchly's test of sphericity, the Greenhouse-Geisser correction, repeated-measures ANOVA, and the Bonferroni post-hoc test.
Findings: The results showed that in all components of quality of life (physical effects, emotional effects, social effects, health-related concerns), there was a significant difference between the two groups in the pre-test, post-test, and follow-up stages, and the self-affirmation interview was able to significantly increase quality of life scores. Also, the results of the Bonferroni test indicated that this reduction was not only maintained immediately after the intervention but also during the follow-up period (p<0.05). Furthermore, the effect size results showed that 20.8%, 26.3%, 26.4%, and 26.9% of individual differences in the components of quality of life (physical effects, emotional effects, social effects, and health-related concerns) were due to self-affirmation interview training.
Conclusion: The results underscore the importance of self-affirmation interviews for asthma patients and suggest promising avenues for clinical interventions. Therefore, self-affirmation interviews may be utilized as a complementary treatment to facilitate meaningful improvements in asthma patients.
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