Özgüç, Safiye http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6039-4652
Tanriverdi, Derya
Funding for this research was provided by:
Gaziantep Üniversitesi (BAYBP-SBF.DT.19.01)
Article History
Accepted: 5 August 2021
First Online: 16 September 2021
Declarations
: Ethical Approval All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: This study was approved by the Gaziantep University Clinical Research Ethics Committee for conducting the study (Ethics Committee Decision Number: 237).
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: Strengths of the study; the use of an up-to-date approach in the treatment of depression, homogeneity of the experimental and control groups, and the experimental design of the study with pretest-posttest and control measurements.Although the study demonstrates notable strengths, important limitations remain. The follow-up period is limited to 3 months since the research was conducted between certain dates ve the fact that the sample was obtained from a single center and its limited number is one of the limitations of the study. In addition, the variables were evaluated only with the self-report tool.