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Cancer is associated with psychological pressure and negative emotions. Therefore, identification and application of psychological therapies can be effective in the prevention and improvement of psychological pressure and problems in the patients with cancer. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of emotional schema therapy on cancer-related fatigue and self-care behaviors in patients with breast cancer. 

This was a pre-test-post-test quasi-experimental study with a control group, and its statistical population included all women with breast cancer referring to nongovernmental oncology center of Urmia in 2020. 30 women with breast cancer (15 in the experimental group - 15 in the control group) were selected by convenient sampling method. Our inclusion criteria included female patients with breast cancer, , minimum age 40 and maximum age 60 years, in the phase 1 and 2 of the disease, undergoing chemotherapy, and disease duration of at least 6 months and having diploma as minimum certificate in education. The patients randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. Okoyama Cancer Fatigue Questionnaire (2000) and researcher-made self-care behaviors questionnaire were used to collect data. The experimental group received 12 sessions of Leahy's emotional schema therapy (2002). Every session lasted 90 minutes. Data analysis was performed using multivariate covariance test.

The mean age of the participants was (56.36) with standard deviation (8.09). The results of multivariate covariance analysis showed that the mean scores of cancer-related fatigue and self-care behaviors after implementation of emotional schema therapy were significantly different in the experimental group compared to those in the control group. This means that emotional schema therapy reduced cancer-related fatigue and improved self-care behaviors.

  According to the results of this study, emotional schema therapy is effective in reducing cancer-related fatigue and improvement of self-care behaviors in the women with breast cancer.

Cancer as a negative stressor has a serious impact on the physical and mental health of patients. This necessitates psychological interventions in these patients, so the present study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of compassion-focused therapy on cancer fatigue and self-care behaviors of cancer patients. The method of the present study was a semi-experimental pre-test-post-test according to its subject. The statistical population of the present study also included all patients referred to the non-governmental oncology center of Urmia in the period of April and May 2016. From the statistical population, a sample of 30 cancer patients (15 in the experimental group - 15 in the control group) was selected based on the input criteria by available sampling method and randomly assigned between the experimental and control groups. For data collection, Okoyama et al.chr('39')s (2000) cancer fatigue questionnaire and self-care behaviors questionnaire in researcher-made cancer patients were used. The experimental group experienced compassion-based therapy for 8 sessions of 90 minutes. Both groups then responded to the measurement tools after the sessions. The results of multivariate analysis of covariance showed that the difference between the mean scores of fatigue due to cancer and self-care behaviors after compassion-focused treatment compared to the control group was significant (P ≥0/001). Compassion-based therapy reduced cancer-induced fatigue and increased self-care behaviors. It is recommended to use compassion-focused therapy to improve cancer fatigue and patientschr('39') self-care behaviors along with other interventions.

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between personality traits and psychological well-being in people with irritable bowel syndrome with mediating role of emotional regulation.

Research method according to the applied purpose, and the data collection method was a descriptive correlation and a quantitative data type. The statistical population of this study was all the patients with irritable bowel syndrome referring to Danesh Gastrointestinal Clinic in Tehran in 1396. The sample size was 390 participants selected by calculate sample size in structural equations and using a sample purposive sampling method. In order to measure the variables, personality traits Neo Costa & McGary (1992), Psychological well-being Ryff (1989), and of emotional regulation Gross and John (2003) questionnaires were used. Evaluation of the proposed model was done using structural equation modeling and SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL; Version 18 as well as Amos. The reliability, convergent validity and divergent validity of the questionnaire, were investigated.  Moreover, path coefficients and software significance coefficients were used to examine the research hypotheses.

The results showed that the degree of appropriateness of the proposed model was appropriate to the components of the research; personality traits and psychological well-being were found to be correlated with the role of mediator of emotional regulation in the patients with irritable bowel syndrome (p <0.0001).

This research confirms the relationship between personality traits and psychological well-being with the mediating role of emotional regulation in people with irritable bowel syndrome. Because of Numerous scientific evidence in the ontology of this syndrome, further study on emotional skills and related problems in people with irritable bowel syndrome are required.

Multiple sclerosis is a common chronic neurological disease, which is associated with psychological challenges including low resiliency and rumination. Therefore it is necessary to provide suffers with psychological treatment. The current research is aimed at examining the effect of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy on the resilience and obsessive rumination among multiple sclerosis (MS) patients.
This is a pretest- posttest control group quasi-experimental research. The population of the study was all MS patients in Urmia-Iran under auspices of Iranian MS Association. Convenience sampling was used to recruit 30 participants. The participants were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups in equal numbers. The research instruments were the Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) and Obsessive Rumination Scale (RRS). Then experimental groups participated in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for 13 sessions of 1.30 hours. Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to analyze the data.
The results showed significant posttest differences between the control group and experimental group with respect to resilience and rumination (p Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy is an effective method to increase the resilience and reduce obsessive rumination among multiple sclerosis (MS) patients.