Comparing the effectiveness of schema therapy and therapy based on acceptance and commitment on women's sexual schema after breast cancer surgery

The present study was conducted with the aim of comparing the effectiveness of schema therapy and therapy based on acceptance and commitment on the sexual schema of women after breast cancer surgery.

The research method was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design and a control group with a follow-up period. The statistical population of the present study included all breast cancer patients referred to Tajrish Martyrs Hospital clinic in 2019. 120 people were selected as a statistical sample with the available sampling method (voluntarily) and were replaced in three groups of 40 people, and in two groups, experiment 1 (schema therapy), experiment 2 (therapy based on acceptance and commitment) and a control group randomly replaced. First, all three groups were measured with Rogers' self-concept questionnaires (1957), Siranoski and Andersen's sexual schemas (1994) and Pittsburgh sleep quality, then experimental group 1, 9 sessions of 90-minute schema therapy by Yang et al. (2003) and the group Experiment 2 received eight 90-minute sessions of therapy based on acceptance and commitment based on the theory of Hayes et al. (1999) and the control group did not receive any training. They were repeatedly tested.

The results of repeated measurement variance analysis showed that there was a significant difference between the experimental schema therapy groups and the group based on acceptance and commitment with the control group (f=32.070 and p<0.001), but between the schema score There is no significant difference between the sexual schema therapy group and the therapy based on acceptance and commitment, and both treatments were effective in improving sexually incompatible schemas, and the effect of both was stable over time.