Art therapy as a new approach for manage grief, anxiety and improving quality of life: a clinical randomized controlled trial on Grieving women following pregnancy loss.

Introduction & Objective: Attention and treatment of psychological problems following the failure of pregnancy, despite its high importance, is one of the significant gaps in the field of midwifery that can be closed with various complementary medicine methods.Materials and Methods: The present study is a randomized clinical trial that was performed on ۶۰ women following the loss of pregnancy. The subjects in the intervention group participated in ۴ art therapy sessions. The research instruments in this study were demographic questionnaire, PGS, STAI and WHOQOL-BREF. The study was completed two sessions after the intervention, at the end of the intervention and eight weeks after the intervention.Results: In this study, demographic information was not statistically significant between the intervention and control groups (P <۰.۰۵). The mean of grief and anxiety in the intervention group, in different stages of art therapy compared to before the intervention and also in the intervention group compared to the control, decreased significantly (P <۰.۰۵). Also, the mean quality of life, in all four areas, in the intervention group in different stages of art therapy compared to before the intervention and also in the intervention group compared to the control, increased significantly (P = ۰.۰۰).Conclusion: The results showed that art therapy has a positive effect on reducing grief, anxiety and improving the quality of life of women following pregnancy loss.

کلیدواژه ها:

Art therapy ، anxiety ، grief ، quality of life