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Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has increased psychological distress and impacted the diagnosis and treatment of noncommunicable diseases. This study aimed to examine the comparative effectiveness of emotionally focused therapy (EFT) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on the anxiety and quality of life (QoL) in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: A total of 45 participants who met the criteria for a current episode of CAD, referred to Shahid-Rajaee Heart Hospital in Tehran City, Iran, were chosen by convenience sampling method. They were randomly assigned to a 9-week/60-minute EFT (n=15) group therapy, a 5-week/20-minute tDCS (n=15) experimental group, and one control group (n=15). They were assessed at pre-test, post-test, and 3-month follow-up. The study subjects completed the self-reported reliable and valid Persian version of questionnaires, Beck anxiety inventory (BAI), and health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Then, repeated measures analysis of variance was used to measure inferential statistics.
Results: There were significant improvements in anxiety and QoL scores in both EFT and tDCS groups over the post-test and follow-up period (P≤0.01). However, a difference was found when EFT had a greater effect on the anxiety and QoL.
Conclusion: These results showed that EFT and tDCS have effective interventions in reducing anxiety and improving the QoL of CAD patients, but improvements with EFT were greater than those with tDCS.
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BCN is an international multidisciplinary journal that publishes editorials, original full-length research articles, short communications, reviews, methodological papers, commentaries, perspectives and “news and reports” in the broad fields of developmental, molecular, cellular, system, computational, behavioral, cognitive, and clinical neuroscience. No area in the neural related sciences is excluded from consideration, although priority is given to studies that provide applied insights into the functioning of the nervous system. BCN aims to advance our understanding of organization and function of the nervous system in health and disease, thereby improving the diagnosis and treatment of neural-related disorders. Manuscripts submitted to BCN should describe novel results generated by experiments that were guided by clearly defined aims or hypotheses. BCN aims to provide serious ties in interdisciplinary communication, accessibility to a broad readership inside Iran and the region and also in all other international academic sites, effective peer review process, and independence from all possible non-scientific interests. BCN also tries to empower national, regional and international collaborative networks in the field of neuroscience in Iran, Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa and to be the voice of the Iranian and regional neuroscience community in the world of neuroscientists. In this way, the journal encourages submission of editorials, review papers, commentaries, methodological notes and perspectives that address this scope.
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