The Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) on Cognitive Emotion Regulation and Life Quality of Women with Prolonged Grief Disorder from Cultural Perspective

This study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy on cognitive emotion regulation and life quality of women with prolonged grief disorder from cultural perspective.The statistical population enfolded all the women referring to counseling and treatment centers in the west of Tehran city in year 2023.The sample encompassed 30 females whom were selected via convenient sampling procedure and randomly assigned into two experimental and control groups 15 participants each.The research method was semi-experimental with a pretest-post-test and a control group.All the subjects responded to Prolonged Grief Disorder Symptoms (PG-13, 2021), Quality of Life 36-Item Short Form Survey (1992) and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ, 2002) before and after the intervention.The experimental group was exposed to acceptance and commitment therapy for 8 sessions,90 minutes each while the control group received none.The data were analyzed by applying multi variate and univariate analysis of covariance using SPSS-26 software.The results of data analysis showed that the intervention based on acceptance and commitment caused some significant variations in the scores of cognitive emotion regulation and life quality (P<0.05) of the participants in the experimental group compared to the control group.Based on the findings of the present study, it could be concluded that acceptance and commitment therapy was effective in improving the cognitive emotion regulation and the life quality of women with prolonged grief disorder, and it should be used as an effective and appropriate cultural intervention.