The Effectiveness of Brief Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy on Guilt Feelings of Dementia Caregivers.

This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of brief cognitive-behavioral therapy on guilt feeling among family caregivers of patients with Dementia. This research was a quasi-experimental study wherein the pre-test and post-test control group design was employed. The statistical population of this study consisted of the family caregivers of the Dementia patients who came to Psychiatry OPD of Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University from March 2017 to November 2017. Among this population, 45 volunteers were selected via convenience sampling method and then, were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The participants of both groups filled in the guilt feeling questionnaire developed by Alavi 2006, contains 38 items and caregiver guilt questionnaire developed by Salkovskis, contains 22 items and three subscales in both the pre-test and post-test stages. The therapy program lasted for 06 sessions. Multivariate regression analysis and covariance analysis were used to analyze the data. The results showed that the levels of overall guilt and caregiver guilt had significantly decreased in the experimental group after the exposure of this group to brief cognitive-behavioral group therapy as compared to the pre-test and control group.