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Author(s): Hossein Rezai , Efat Sadeghian*, Farshid Shamsaei and Mohammad Ebrahim Ghafari

DOI: 10.2174/2666082218666211220160326

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Effect of Anger Management Education on Aggression in Bipolar Disorder Hospitalized Patients: A Pilot Study

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Abstract

Background: Aggression is one of the symptoms of bipolar disorder. This expression can be associated with negative personal and social effects.

Objective: This study aimed to determine the effect of anger management education on aggression in bipolar disorder.

Methods: This semi-experimental study with a repeated measures design was conducted in Hamadan, Iran, 2018. Fifty-two bipolar type-1 disorder patients were randomly selected from the Psychiatric Ward of Farshian Hospital through the convenience sampling method. The anger management education intervention included four sessions. Also, the State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory-2 (STAXI-2) was completed by the subjects before, immediately, and two weeks after the educational intervention. Data analysis was performed in SPSS16, using Mauchly’s sphericity test and the least significant difference.

Results: The mean aggression score was 61.38±11.59 before the intervention, which reduced to 27.18±8.61 and 18.86±6.45 immediately and two weeks after the intervention, respectively. The repeated measures test showed that the decreasing trend of scores was statistically significant (P<0.001). Moreover, pairwise comparison of study stages demonstrated a significant difference between the first and second stages (P<0.001) and the second and third stages (P<0.001).

Conclusion: Anger management education reduced the level of aggression in bipolar type-1 disorder. Therefore, it can be incorporated into nursing care programs.

Keywords: Anger management therapy, education, aggression, bipolar disorder, STAXI, mental disorder.

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