Comparing the effectiveness of group dialectical behavior therapy with group schema therapy on emotional dysregulation in women with coronary heart disease

Abstract

The present study aimed to compare the effectiveness of group dialectical behavior therapy with group schema therapy on emotional dysregulation in women with coronary heart disease. The present study method was quasi-experimental and the design used in this research was a pre-test-post-test design with control and follow-up groups. The statistical population of this research included married women aged 35 to 50 with coronary heart disease who visited Azadi Vascular Hospital in Tehran in 2022. Three groups were randomly grouped using the available sampling method: 15 subjects in the first group, 15 in the second group, and another 15 subjects in the control group. In order to carry out regular treatment sessions, an 8-session dialectical behavior therapy protocol and an 8-session schema therapy protocol were developed and implemented. Gratz and Roemer (2004) Difficulty in Emotional Regulation have been used to collect data. In order to statistically analyze the data, analysis of variance with repeated measurements and Bonferroni's post hoc test were used by SPSS software. The results of Bonferroni's post hoc test showed that there is a difference between the effectiveness of group dialectical behavior therapy and group schema therapy on emotional dysregulation in women with coronary heart disease from the pre-test stage, to the post-test and follow-up (p<0.05); Compared to group schema therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy has a greater effect in reducing emotional dysregulation in women with coronary heart disease from the pre-test stage to the post-test and follow-up.