The effect of adjuvant treatment of dysfunction beliefs on group psychotherapy and health education compliance of the patients with depression

Objective To study the effect of adjuvant treatment of dysfunction beliefs on group psychotherapy and health education compliance of the patients with depressionMethods A total of 122 patients with depression who took amitriptyline were randomly divided into study group and control group.The patients in study group were treated with adjuvant treatment of dysfunction beliefs for 12 weeks.The questionnaires of group psychotherapy and health education compliance were used with the content of drug therapy,group psychotherapy and health education compliance.There were 3 grades of compliance:good,fairly good and bad.The data were analyzed with SPSS - PC 10.0.Results The compliance of patients in study group was better than that in control group ( P ＜ 0.05).Group psychotherapy and health education compliance were improved significantly.Conclusions Adjuvant treatment of dysfunction beliefs is helpful to improving group psychotherapy and health education compliance. Key words: Depression;  Adjuvant treatment of dysfunction beliefs ;  Group psychotherapy and health education compliance