title: The Effectiveness of Group Logo Therapy on the Hope among the Leukemic Patients.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The present study has investigated the effectiveness of group logo therapy to increase the hope among the leukemic patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  This research has composed of 80 leukemic patients who have referred to Golestan Hospital in 2012 fall, and then have responded to the Snyder's Hope Scale, The research design has included pre - post - and follow up tests with a control group. First, both groups have responded to the pre-tests. Then the experimental group has received 10 sessions of counseling through group logo therapy; however, the control group has not received any specific training. Afterwards, both groups have undergone a post-test. After an interval of one month, follow-up tests have implemented in order to evaluate the permanency of the given tests .The SPSS software and covariance analysis tests have used in order to analyze the resulted tests data, and Cronbach alpha method has measured reliability coefficient.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The research results have shown that logo therapy training might increase the hope of the leukemic patients (p<0.0001); moreover, permanency assessment of this study has shown the same result (p<0.0001).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Group logo therapy could be effective on the hope of the leukemic patients, and then this effect would be permanent.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of counseling, science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran.
authors.forename: Nazila
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ebrahimi
authors.affiliation: Dept. of counseling, science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran.
authors.forename: Farshad
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bahari
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Behavioral Sciences, the center for research and development in humanities, The Organization for Researching and Composing University Textbooks in Humanities (SAMT), Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Mehdi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zare-Bahramabadi
keywords: Group Counseling; Hope; Leukemia; Logo therapy