Comparison of the Effectiveness of compassion-therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing on Intolerance of Uncertainty, of patients recovered from coronavirus

The present study aims to compare the effects of compassion therapy and EMDR on the Intolerance of Uncertainty of patients recovered from Covid-19. This study was a quasi-experimental type with a pre-test-post-test design, a control group, and a two-month follow-up. The statistical population of included all the patients who recovered from coronavirus and were discharged from the ICU  patients in Shohaday-e Ashayer and Social Security Hospitals in Khoramabad between November and the end of December 2020. 45 people were included using a purposeful sampling method and randomly divided into three groups (15 people in each group). The first intervention group received 8 sessions of compassion therapy intervention and the second intervention group received 5 sessions of EMDR therapy intervention. The control group was placed on the intervention waiting list. The Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale (IUS) (Foreeston et al., 1999) was the tool used data were analyzed using analysis of variance with repeated measurements, and Bonferroni's post hoc test. The results showed that there is a significant difference between the groups in the post-test and follow-up Intolerance of Uncertainty  (P<0.01). Both interventions had an effect on Intolerance of Uncertainty, but no significant difference was observed between the two interventions in Intolerance of Uncertainty (P=1). Moreover, these results continued until the follow-up stage. In accordance with the result, it can be mentioned that both compassion therapy and EMDR are effective in the Intolerance of Uncertainty of patients recovered from Covid-19.