Abstract

Heart disease, including myocardial infarction, is one of the most common diagnoses in hospitalized patients, with a mortality rate of about 30% of patients. This research aimed to compare the effect of acceptance and commitment therapy and schema therapy on negative emotions and resilience in heart patients. The research method was quasi-experimental with pre-test-post-test, two experimental groups, and a control group. The statistical population included all heart patients referred to the Nuclear Medicine Center in 2018 in Tehran, 3548 people who referred for diagnostic examinations and cardiac scans. By random sampling, we selected the research sample with a size of 45 people (15 people in the training group of acceptance and commitment therapy, 15 people in the schema therapy training group, and 15 people in the control group). To collect research data, we used the questionnaires of Connor and Davidson standard resilience (2003) and Garnefski and Craaij cognitive emotion regulation (2006). After performing the pre-test for all three groups, we performed Therapeutic intervention for the experimental groups using the protocol of Acceptance and commitment therapy in 12 sessions (1 session per week for 2 hours) and the schema therapy protocol in 10 sessions (1 session per week for 2 hours). After the intervention, a post-test was performed for all three groups. The results showed that therapeutic interventions had an effect on resilience and negative emotions in heart patients, but the effect of Acceptance and commitment therapy on resilience and negative emotions in heart patients has been more than schema therapy training.