Thesis:

Studying the effectiveness of ACT treatment on depression and death anxiety in people with cancer aged 25-35 years in Neyshabur city

Thesis Summary (Thesis abstract in Persian, maximum 250 words) The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) on depression and death anxiety in people with cancer aged 25-35 years in Neyshabur city. The present study was a quasi-experimental research in terms of its applied purpose and the desired intervention. Its research design was a pre-test-post-test with an unequal control group. The statistical population of the study included all people with cancer referring to medical centers in Neyshabur city in 1403. For the study sample, 30 people referring to medical centers in Neyshabur city were selected using convenience sampling and randomly assigned to two experimental groups (15) and control groups (15). Beck Depression Inventory (1971) and Templer Death Anxiety Inventory (1970) were used to collect data. Also, acceptance and commitment therapy based on Harris's book Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (2019) was implemented for the experimental group for 8 60-minute therapy sessions, one session per week. The data obtained from the scores of this study were analyzed by SPSS 24 statistical software at two descriptive and inferential levels. At the descriptive level, indices such as mean, standard deviation, frequency, and percentage were used, and at the inferential level, the analysis of covariance method was used. The results showed that acceptance and commitment therapy is effective on depression and death anxiety in people with cancer aged 25 to 35 in Neyshabur city.

Keywords: Keywords: Depression, death anxiety, acceptance and commitment therapy.