Comparison of cognitive strategies for emotion regulation, impulsivity and suicidal ideation in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder, bipolar disorder and normal people.

The aim was to compare cognitive strategies for emotion regulation, impulsivity and suicidal ideation in patients with obsessive-compulsive, bipolar disorder and normal individuals.

was descriptive-causal-comparative. The statistical population was divided into two parts: people who had a psychiatric record in Semnan in 1400 and were diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive and bipolar disorder, and normal people in Semnan who based on self-reported He didn’t have a psychiatric record and was screened for symptoms of mental disorders using a checklist. 50 patients with obsessive-compulsive and 50 patients with bipolar were selected by psychiatrist after evaluation by a psychiatrist and 50 normal individuals were selected by available sampling method after controlling the list of symptoms of mental disorders to control the absence of mental disorder. Granfsky Emotion Cognitive Regulation Questionnaire, Barthes Impulsivity and Beck Suicidal Thought were administered. Multivariate analysis of variance was used to analyze the data.

Cognitive regulation of emotion, impulsivity and suicidal ideation are significantly different in the three groups(p<0.05). 

holding educational workshops to minimize the damage caused by failure in emotion regulation, impulsivity and suicidal thoughts in obsessive-compulsive and bipolar disorder sufferers, designing support programs such as training impulse management skills, using adaptive emotion regulation strategies, planning skills and Decision-making in the general population as well as obsessive-compulsive and bipolar patients, as well as the appropriate treatment plan to prevent the exacerbation or recurrence of patients' symptoms can be effective.