The Effect of Trans diagnostic based Emotion Efficiency Therapy on Emotional Schemas and Sleep Quality of Anxious Nurses

Emotions always have a significant effect on the formation of behavioral patterns. Therefore, behavioral interventions based on it are a suitable way to deal with psychosomatic disorders. Anxiety is an effective component in people that can potentially affect the quality of sleep. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of Trans diagnostic-based Emotion Efficiency Therapy on sleep quality and emotional schemas of anxious nurses.

 The method of this study was Quasi-experimental with the control group and a two-month follow-up among the nurses who work in Chamran and Hazrat Rasoul hospitals in Ferdows in 2019, 50 anxious nurses were selected by purposive sampling and randomly assigned to experimental (n = 25) and control (n = 25) groups. Therapeutic sessions Trans-diagnostic based emotion efficiency therapy were presented in 8 sessions over two months and the anxiety inventory (Beck & Steer, 1990), emotional schemas  )Suh et al  2019)  and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (Buysse et al, 1989)  were used to collect data. Data were analyzed methods of analysis of covariance in SPSS-25 software.

The results showed that emotion efficiency therapy in the post-test period was effective in decreasing sleep quality (p <0.001) and reducing both components of emotional schemas (p<0.001) and these results were also stable in the post-test period (p<0.001).

Based on the findings of this study, Trans-diagnostic based emotion efficiency therapy can be effective as timely interventions to decrease sleep quality and reduce emotional schemas of anxious nurses and this intervention can be used in medical centers.