Compared the effectiveness of compassion therapy and mindfulness-based therapy on cognitive emotion regulation in the survivors of the covid-19 disease

The present study compared the effectiveness of compassion therapy and mindfulness-based therapy on cognitive emotion regulation in the survivors of the COVID-19 disease. The method of study was quasi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design, a control group, and a 3-month follow-up. The statistical population of the study included all bereaved people who lost one of their first-degree relatives due to Corona from August to December 2021 and are living in Karaj City. In this regard, 45 people were selected by voluntary sampling and were randomly divided into two experimental groups and one control group (15 people in each group). The first and second experimental groups received compassion therapy and mindfulness-based therapy during 8 weekly sessions, respectively. The study tool was the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) (Garnefsky and Kraaij, 2006). Data were analyzed by analysis of variance with repeated measurements and the Bonferroni test. The results revealed that both compassion therapy and mindfulness-based therapy significantly increased adjusted cognitive emotion regulation and decreased maladjusted emotion regulation compared to the control group (P<0.01). Also, both intervention methods had a lasting effect until the follow-up stage (3 months). Moreover, there was no significant difference between the effectiveness of the two methods (P<0.01). According to the results, it can be stated that both compassion therapy and mindfulness-based therapy were effective in cognitive emotion regulation in the survivors of the COVID-19 disease.