the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy in the resilience of recovered covid-19 patients at the peak of the pandemic

Background: the onset of the covid-19 outbreak brought unprecedented psychological and emotional consequences, especially for recovered patients, so resiliency in disasters could be helpful. objectives: the present study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy (cbt) in the increasing resilience of recovered covid-19 patients at the peak of the pandemic. methods: this research was quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest design and control group. the statistical population of this study included all recovered covid-19 patients with a mean age of 33.06 years at the peak of the pandemic in isfahan (n = 30) in 2021-2022. they were selected by purposive sampling and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups (15 subjects in each group). after performing the pretest, the experimental group received a cbt program for 12 sessions, and then the post-test was performed. the required data were collected using the connor-davidson resilience scale (cd-risc; 2003). results: the obtained data were analyzed using descriptive statistics (mean and sd) and inferential statistics (analysis of covariance [ancova]) using spss version 20. the findings showed that cbt led to increased resilience and had a significant effect on the experimental group (p < 0.01). conclusions: cbt can be considered an effective treatment in reducing problems and improving the psychological indicators of recovered covid-19 patients.