A Comparison between Autogenic Relaxation with Positive Self-Talk Training and Emotional Regulation Training on Affective Control among Patients with Coronary Heart Disease

Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) has The most burden of deseas among physical illnesses. CHD is one of the chronic illnesses that the physiological and psychological factors have interactions in development and maintanence of it. So modifying and eliminating of it risk factors is essential in the treatment of CHD. Hence, The objective of this study was comparing the effectiveness of two types of training including autogenic relaxation with positive self-talk and emotional regulation on affective control among patients with cardiovascular disease.

This study was an semi-experimental study and pretest-posttest-follow up design with control group and using convenient sampling method,45 female volunteers with CHD disease were selected and randomly assigned into three groups. The experimental groups were instructed the protocols of each intervention. All the subjects filled out the affective control scale prior to, after, and 1/5 months later thanthe end of each intervention. Data analysis were analised by applying repeated measures analysis of variances and Tukey's follow-up test methods.

Findings revealed that both interventions could significantly modify the affective control (P<0.05), but these two groups didn`t have significant fifferencer (P>0.05).

Enhancement of the affective controlcan be achieved through the both training by instructing their special techniques. So, The practitioners could apply these interventions in combination to medical treatments for controlling the CHD symptoms.