Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavior Therapy Combined with Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing on Psychological Problems and Life Quality in Patients’ Postfacial Trauma

Abstract

Objective. To investigate the effectiveness of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) combined with eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) on the esteem, anxiety, depression, posttrauma stress disorder (PTSD), and posttraumatic growth in patients with facial trauma. Methods. A total of 92 facial trauma patients in Wenzhou People’s Hospital from January 2017 to December 2019 were enrolled in this study. The patients were randomly divided into control group ( $n=46$ ) and intervention group ( $n=46$ ). Both of the control group and the intervention group received routine treatment, while the intervention group further received CBT combined with EMDR. Questionnaires were used to explore and record the general patient information. The Self-Esteem Scale (SES), Self-Anxiety Scale (SAS), Self-Depression Scale (SDS), Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist Civilian Version (PCL-C), Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI), and World Health Organization Quality of Life-brief (WHOQOL-BREF) scores between the two groups were compared. Results. After CBT combined with EMDR intervention, the SDS and SAS scores in the intervention group were significantly decreased compared with the scores before intervention with statistically significance ( $P<0.001$ ). Furthermore, the PCL-C score in the intervention group showed significant decrease in comparison with the control group ( $P<0.001$ ), while the PTGI score in the intervention group was significantly higher than the control group ( $P<0.001$ ). The WHOQOL-BREF scores were increased after treatment in the two groups compared with the scores before treatment, and the scores in the intervention group were higher than those in the control group after treatment ( $P<0.01$ ). Conclusion. Psychological intervention therapy can effectively alleviate the anxiety, depression, and PTSD and improve the life quality and the recovery of facial trauma patients.