In collaboration with Payame Noor University and Iranian Health Psychology Association

Document Type : Scientific Research

Authors

1 Associate Professor of psychology, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran.

2 M.A in Psychology, Kharazmi university, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Objective: Chronic pain is a common medical illnesses . Purpose of this study is investigating the effectiveness of combination of Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies on mindfulness, resiliency and quality of life in patients with chronic pain in Tehran.
 
Methods: 2 patients with chronic pain were selected through convenience sampling and answered to these questionnaire; Connor and Davidson Resiliency Scale, Bauer and colleagues mindfulness questionnaire and quality of life questionnaire. This study was a basic, multiline, and single subject research. 
 
Results: CBT and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies has significant effects on increasing the scores of all three scales in both cases. So that the percentage of improvement in the scale of the mind awareness, resiliency and quality of life, for the first case has been respectively -71/57, -63/04 and -64/93 and for the second case was -76/66, -76 and -72/09 .
 
Conclusion: Cognitive behavior therapy and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies is effective in increasing the mindfulness, resiliency and quality of life in patients with chronic pain.

Keywords

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