The effect of energy balance training intervention and cognitive behavioral therapy on perceived stress, generalized anxiety disorder, and body mass index of deaf athletes in Semnan province

Sedighi, Golnaz; Abdi, Hasan; Naghibi, Seyed Hadi

doi:10.22091/frs.2025.12135.1032

The effect of energy balance training intervention and cognitive behavioral therapy on perceived stress, generalized anxiety disorder, and body mass index of deaf athletes in Semnan province

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ MSC Sport Physiology. Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Shahrood Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrood, Iran.

² Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Shahrood Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrood, Iran.

10.22091/frs.2025.12135.1032

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of energy balance training intervention and cognitive behavioral therapy on perceived stress, generalized anxiety disorder and body mass index of deaf athletes in Semnan province. This research is a semi-experimental study with a pre-test and post-test research design with experimental and control groups. The statistical population of the research was formed by deaf athletes of Semnan province. The sampling method was purposeful, based on the criteria for entering the research, 24 people were selected and divided into 2 groups by simple random. The research questionnaires included Cohen's perceived stress (1983), Spitzer et al.'s (2006) generalized anxiety disorder questionnaire. Analysis of covariance test was used to analyze the research data. All statistical operations of the research were considered using SPSS version 25 software with a significance level of P<0.05. The results showed that after controlling for the effect of the pre-test, the difference between the pre-test and post-test scores of the two groups was significant for the variables of perceived stress, general anxiety and body mass index, and the mean scores of the energy balance and cognitive behavioral therapy group in the variables of perceived stress, general anxiety and The body mass index is also significantly lower than the energy balance group (p<0.001). Therefore, it can be said that there is a significant difference between the effect of energy balance intervention combined with cognitive behavioral therapy with energy balance on perceived stress, general anxiety and body mass index of deaf athletes in Semnan province, and combined cognitive-behavioral therapy with energy balance is more effective than treatment It has energy balance.

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