The effect of eye movement and desensitization by reprocessing on depression in adolescents with Thalassemia

Introduction: Thalassemia is the most common genetic diseases in the world and especially in our country. For many reasons, including chronic disease, health care costs, fear of early death, disease statues led to Depression, psychological and social problems in thalassemia patients. This study aimed to determine the efficacy of eye movement desensitization and processing efficiency of this method and to decreasing the Depression of children with thalassemia. Method: This study was a clinical trial. 60 thalassemic patients aged 20-12 years were randomly assigned to two groups. Demographic questionnaire and Beck Depression Inventory were used to collection of data. The trial of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing in 3 sessions on alternate days for 45 to 30 minutes after. Depression before and after the intervention were measured velocity. An analysis by descriptive statistics, t-test and paired t-test, Mann-Whitney and Wilcoxon tests Non parameter equal to the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was performed. Results: This study shows that the mean or average level of Depression children with thalassemia before implementing EMDR therapy group27/73 +/- 3/52 was After doing EMDR therapy to 17/80 +/- 2/36 was Which is greatly reduced compared to pre-intervention and the results were statistically significant( P0 < 001). The result showed that EMDR has main full effect on decreasing the symptoms of Depression. Conclusion: The result showed that EMDR can useful through having the influence on integration information processing an effective method to treat or reduce Depression children with thalassemia.