effectiveness of solution-focused therapy in mental health and hopefulness among patients with cardiovascular diseases

Background and objective: psychological factors possibly play a role in the process ofcardiovascular disease and interact with biological agents to affect cardiovascular disease. therefore,the present study aimed to determine the effectiveness of solution-focused therapy in mental healthand hopefulness among patients with cardiovascular diseases.materials and methods: this was a quasi-experimental study with a pretest-posttest design, followup,and control group. the statistical population of this study included all cardiovascular patientsreferring to isfahan cardiovascular research center, isfahan, iran, within january to march 201 8 witha history of heart attack or open-heart surgery in the last month. in this study, 30 patients withcardiovascular diseases willing to participate in the study were selected through conveniencesampling. the patients met the study inclusion criteria and were randomly assigned to experimental(n=15) and control (n=15) groups. the data were collected by snyder's hopefulness scale and publichealth questionnaire and analyzed by repeated measures analysis of variance (anova) and analysisof covariance in spss software (version 22).results: the results of the present study indicated that the results of anova was significant forwithin-group factor (i.e., time) and only for physical symptom variables among between-groupfactors. these results indicated that without considering the group influence, only the time effect wassignificant. however, the interaction between group and time was also significant (f=12.84;pco.oool).conclusion: overall, the findings of this study showed that solution-focused therapy was effective inthe mental health and hopefulness of patients with cardiovascular diseases and can be used intreatment centers to improve the status of patients with cardiovascular diseases.