Intervention
blindness
BLIND, POSITIVE, BLINDNESS
The intervention included positive thinking training presented in eight 30-min sessions. The intervention was conducted by individual counseling on the patients' bedsides during their dialysis sessions. The educational content used in this study was selected from the book 'Positive Thinking and Applied Positivism' by Susan Quilliam, and the curriculum was designed accordingly [The content of the positive thinking training programThe control group participants received no interventions; they received only the routine training, including fluid restraint, diet, and medications, by the hemodialysis nurses.To provide blindness, the statistician who performed the data analysis and the individual who was responsible for collecting the data were blind to the study groups.