Research 3: Patients in two groups did not have any major difference on demographic or clinical variables at baseline. According to (Telch, Schmidt, Jaimez, Jacquin, Harrington, 1995), “Examination of overall SDS scores at baseline revealed that 69% of all participants rated the panic disorder symptoms as creating moderate-to-serve impairment in work functioning, 80% rated the symptoms as creating moderate-to-severe impairment in social functioning, and 62% rated the symptoms as creating moderate-to-severe impairment in family and home responsibilities.” Untreated participants have significant impairment in QOL compared to CBT-treated participants. Although CBT-treated participants have less impairment in QOL, they failed to have a significant improvement in education, parental functioning and economic areas. Research 4: This research stated that the QOL of PD patients and obesity are on average. Improvement in QOL was affected by receiving more treatments. The number of treatment sessions attended by each participant is directly proportional to the termination of QOLI scores. This research indicated that PD patients had the least QOL improvement during the research. Surprisingly, major depressive disorder patients have the most improvement in QOL. The QOL of patients improve more from termination to follow-up. I. Discussion There are many researches and studies stating that CBT, anti-depressants, anti-anxiety medications are effective for treating PD but not all the researches emphasize having equal QOL as normal people as one of the outcome for treating PD. WHO define health as “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” (Pg-946). Physical and mental comorbidities are important for the PD patients and might be the reason for low QOL. The therapists need to label these comorbidities in order not only for symptom remission but also for enhancing QOL during the treatments. Research 1 mainly focused on SF-36 which scores are easier to compare with community norms than Q-LES-Q scores. Low QOL of PD patients can be equal or even higher than other patients with medical or psychiatric diagnosis. There are significant improvements in QOL for patients who receive post-treatments with CBT. Patients treated by CBT who have improved QOL can maintain their QOL after treatment termination. All of the researches that I mentioned above mostly used CBT for patients with PD. They have recruited different participants according to gender, severity of disease, age and demographically.
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Therefore, it is hard for me to relate them as an undergraduate student. HT stresses on one’s free will and personal worth of the individual (Lowenstein, 1993). HT emphasizes patient’s feeling, knowing and doing as a whole but sometimes it is better to stress on some specific areas that the patients have trouble with (Lowenstein, 1993). The main components of HT are understanding, trust and sympathy between the therapist and patient. Once the therapist can build a trustworthy relationship with patients, the future steps will be easier.
Personally, I prefer HT than other psychotherapies. It needs a special connection between the therapist and patient in order to work on the patient’s problems. Since enhancing the QOL is better to focus after the symptom remission, I think HT will be more appropriate and effective than CBT because the contents of post-treatments will mostly be encouraging the patients to go back to their normal daily routines and society. Therapist can be more like a person who can give guidelines or a supporter along with the patient by using HT.
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Therefore, it is hard for me to relate them as an undergraduate student. HT stresses on one’s free will and personal worth of the individual (Lowenstein, 1993). HT emphasizes patient’s feeling, knowing and doing as a whole but sometimes it is better to stress on some specific areas that the patients have trouble with (Lowenstein, 1993). The main components of HT are understanding, trust and sympathy between the therapist and patient. Once the therapist can build a trustworthy relationship with patients, the future steps will be easier.
Personally, I prefer HT than other psychotherapies. It needs a special connection between the therapist and patient in order to work on the patient’s problems. Since enhancing the QOL is better to focus after the symptom remission, I think HT will be more appropriate and effective than CBT because the contents of post-treatments will mostly be encouraging the patients to go back to their normal daily routines and society. Therapist can be more like a person who can give guidelines or a supporter along with the patient by using HT.
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