The Effect of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy‐Based Intervention Program on Psychological Well‐Being and Coping with Stress in Persons With Panic Disorder: Quasi‐Experimental Design With Two‐Site Comparison

PURPOSE: The current research was made to investigate the effect of an intervention program based on CBT on coping with stress and psychological well-being in persons with panic disorder. METHOD: This research was conducted between May 2021 and July 2022 in a training and research hospital and a university hospital as quasi-experimental design with two-site comparison research with a pretest-posttest and control group. The research's participants were 105 persons with panic disorder (54 in the control group and 51 in the experimental group). The Descriptive Features Form, the Psychological Well-being Scale (PWS), and the coping with stress scale (CSS) were utilized to gather data. The persons in the experimental group performed eight sessions (one session per week) of CBT-based intervention program in the form of group training, and no training was performed on the persons in the control group. FINDINGS: The variation between the PWS and the CSS pretest total mean score and the posttest total mean score of the persons in the experimental group was statistically significant (p < 0.05). CONCLUSION: CBT-based intervention program can be utilized as an effective psychosocial intervention to enhance coping with stress and promote psychological well-being in persons with panic disorder.