[ effect of group therapy on depression and anxiety levels of the patients with MI]

ABSTRACT

Introduction: Since about 65% of the patients with MI experience psychological and mental disorders such as depression and anxiety that set back their return to work period, lower their quality of life and enhance their risk of death, treatment of these reactions can speed their recovery and make their life span longer. This study has tried to define and compare mean depression and anxiety scores in patients before, after and a month after intervention in both groups of study and control