Revista Europea de Biología Experimental Acceso abierto

Abstracto

The effect of group counseling with transactional analysis method on general health

Mojgan Emdady and Abdollah Shafiabadi

This research goes about the effectiveness of group counseling with TA1 method on university students’ general health. The participants were 170 girl university students chosen random stratified sampling by GHQ2 questionnaire were done on 170 people which among 100 of them had higher than 22 GHQ. In this research which is classified as experimental type, the least 40 people, two groups of 20, one experiment group and the other control, were chosen randomly from two. 10 sessions of TA group counseling method for the experiment group and nothing for the control group were done. Afterwards, the GHQ adminstered operated for both. The implement was GHQ and statistical data analysis was done by independent T, dependent T and co-variance analysis. Results showed that TA group counseling method in 10 sessions had significant effect about ‘depression’, ‘anxiety’, ‘sleep disorder’ reduction and ‘social performance’ improvement and ‘general health’ increase comparing with the control group.