Efficacy of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy on the Emotional Self-Regulation and Compliance with Treatment Of People With Coronary Heart Disease

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 PhD student in general psychology, Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor, Department of General Psychology, Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran.

3 Associate Professor, Department of Cardiology, Echocardiography Fellowship, Hamedan University of Medical Sciences, Hamedan, Iran.

Abstract

The present study was conducted to investigate the efficacy of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on the Emotional Self-Regulation and compliance with treatment of people with coronary heart disease. the present study was quasi-experimental with pretest, posttest, control group and two-month follow-up period design. The statistical population of this study included patients with coronary heart disease referred to the heart center in Hamadan in the spring season of 2023. 27 Patient with coronary heart disease were selected through voluntarily sampling method and randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups (14 patients in the experimental group and 13 patients in the control group). The patients in the experimental group received mindfulness-based cognitive therapy during 8 weeks in 8 sessions of 90 minutes. The applied questionnaires in this study included Emotional Self-Regulation Questionnaire (Gross, John, 2003) and Compliance with Treatment Questionnaire (Morisky et al, 2008). The data from the study were analyzed through repeated Mixed ANOVA via SPSS23 statistical software. The results showed that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy has significant effect on the emotional self-regulation (f=25.93; eta=0.51; p<0001) and compliance with treatment (f=27.24; eta=0.52; p<0001) of the people with coronary heart disease. according to the findings of the present study it can be concluded that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy can be used as an efficient therapy to increace emotional self-regulation and decrease compliance with treatment people with coronary heart disease with through mindful activities and attitudes and addressing feelings and problem-making emotion and cognitives.

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