Comparison of the Effect of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and emotionally focused therapy (EFT) on Marital Cardiac patients with a history of coronary artery bypass Referring to Imam Ali Cardiac Rehabilitation Center in Kermanshah

The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and emotionally focused therapy (EFT) on marital conflicts of cardiac patients with a history of coronary artery bypass referring to Imam Ali Cardiac Rehabilitation Center in Kermanshah in 2016-2017. The method of this research was semi-experimental with pretest-posttest and follow-up with control group design. Participants were 45 people who were selected by available sampling method. Participants completed the Barati and Sanaie Marital Conflict Questionnaire. Finally, 45 people who had high grade in marital conflict were selected and randomly divided into three groups (the first experimental group, the second experimental group, and the control group, each group has 15 people). For analyzing the data, covariance analysis, repeated measures analysis of variance and Bonferrine's post hoc test were used. The findings showed there is a significant effect of effectiveness of ACT on components of marital conflict reducing collaboration, reducing the separation of finances from each other and marital conflict, also there is a significant effect of effectiveness of EFT on the components of marital conflict, increasing the individual's relationship with relatives, reducing the relationship with the spouse's relatives and marital conflict, Witch the effects of interventions in the follow-up phase (2 months) also remained. Both of treatments were effective, but the effect level of ACT compared to EFT was greater in reducing marital conflict.