Comparing the effect of treatment based on psychosocial pattern of doubt with cognitive-behavioral therapy on doubt in nurses with obsessive-compulsive disorder

Introduction: Doubt predicts the performance of nurses and how they relate to patients. Therefore, the present study compared the effect of psychosocial model therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy on reducing the level of doubt in nurses. Materials and Methods: The statistical population of this clinical trial included all nurses in Isfahan hospitals in 2018-2019. Amongst them, 45 people were selected by the convenient sampling method and divided in 3 groups. The researcher-made questionnaire of doubt and the Yale Brown Questionnaire were used to measure the research variables. Also, the treatment program based on psychosocial pattern of doubt and cognitive-behavioral therapy was performed in 12 separate 90-minute sessions. The data analyzed by the descriptive statistics, repeated measures analysis of variance in three stages of pre-test, post-test and follow-up, and SPSS version 24. Results: The results showed that cognitive-behavioral therapy and treatment program based on psychosocial pattern of doubt are effective in reducing doubts of nurses and there is a significant difference between these two treatments and treatment program based on psychosocial pattern of doubt and the last one has a greater impact(P<0.05). Conclusion: Therefore, the use of treatment based on psychosocial model can reduce doubts in nurses more than cognitive-behavioral therapy.