Comparison of the Effectiveness of Compassion-focused Therapy and Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction in Reducing Type D Personality Traits in Patients With Coronary Heart Disease

Coronary patients with type d personality have high stress and because they inhibit negative emotions, despite receiving similar medical procedures as other coronary patients, show a slower recovery process and recurrent heart attacks. they give. The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of compassion-based therapy and stress-based mindfulness in reducing type D personality symptoms in patients with coronary heart disease.

The present research method was quasi-experimental with pre-test-post-test-follow-up design with a control group. The statistical population of this study was all patients with coronary heart disease in Rajaei Alborz Hospital in Karaj in 1398, from which 45 people were selected by available sampling method and randomly assigned to three treatment groups based on compassion and mindfulness. Based on stress reduction and the control group. Subjects responded to the Denvelt (2005) personality type scale for pretest, posttest, and follow-up. Compassion-based therapy and stress-based mindfulness therapy were each performed in 8 sessions of 90 minutes each. In the present study, the statistical method of analysis of variance with repeated measures design, SPSS software and significance levels of 0.05 and 0.01 were used to analyze the data.

The results showed that compassion-based therapy and stress-based mindfulness therapy had a reducing effect on type D personality symptoms (P <0.001). Compassion-based therapy and stress-based mindfulness therapy had a reducing effect on type D personality symptoms over time (P <0.001). There was a significant difference between the effectiveness of compassion-based therapy and stress-based mindfulness treatment in reducing type D personality symptoms (P = 0.020).

Compassion-based therapy and stress-based mindfulness are both effective in treating patients with type d personality, but compassion-based therapy is more effective.