Comparison of effectiveness of Autogenic Training and Affect Regulation Training on Cognitive Emotion Regulation of Women with Chronic Low Back Pain

chronic low back pain is a complicated situation in which psychological factors are involved and it predisposed a person to chronic disability and failure respond to common treatments. The aim of this study was comparison of effectiveness of Autogenic Training and Affect Regulation Training on cognitive emotion regulation of women with chronic low back pain.

The research method was quasi experimental with pretest, posttest with control groups. 60 females with chronic low back pain who run to pain clinic, those are desired to participate to this research, 33 were selected by convenience sampling method and randomly divided into three groups of 11 each. The instruments of research were including the complete package of ART and AT and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire.

The result showed reduction of cognitive emotion regulation scale, and its subscales (self and other blame, rumination, catastrophizing, acceptance).

Both intervention seem to be effective by making physiological and biochemical changes in body through the same mechanisms that leads negative emotions regulation in patients with chronic low back pain.