Author/Authors :
Tayyebi Ramin ، Zahra نويسنده M.Sc. in Rehabilitation Counseling, University of Social Welfare & Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran , , Dadkhah، Asghar نويسنده , , Bahmani ، Bahman نويسنده Assistant Professor, Counseling Department, University of Social Welfare & Rehabilitation Sciences. Tehran. Iran , , Movallali، Guita نويسنده ,
Abstract :
The Present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of group logo
therapy on increasing the quality of mothers` life of hearing impaired children. This
study is applied and semi- experimental that conducted with control group, random
assigned pre- test, post-test and follow- up test. The population comprised all the
mothers` of hearing impaired children in Karaj and also were selected among the
mothers` of exceptional students of Shohada`s primary school. The study participants
were selected through purposeful sampling, being volunteer subject, approachable
and then randomly assigned to the case group (15) and control group (15).Both group
members tested based on the quality of life scale in the stages of pre- test and post-
test. The case group in the intervention of group logo therapy consisted 9 sessions
each taking 90 minutes. Data was collected and processed through SPSS to calculate
the mean score, standard deviation, t- test and analysis of covariance. The results
showed that the intervention was significantly effective on increasing the mean score
of the quality of the mothers` life of hearing impaired children in the case group
compared to that of the control group. Thus, group logo therapy intervention can be
effective in improving and increasing the quality of mothers` life of hearing impaired
children.