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ArticleBMC psychology2024

The influence of an emotion regulation intervention on challenges in emotion regulation and cognitive strategies in patients with depression.

Mohamed Hussein Ramadan Atta, Mervat Mostafa El-Gueneidy, Ola Ahmed Rashad Lachine

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Mohamed Hussein Ramadan AttaPsychiatric and mental-health nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University, 9 Edmond Vermont Street - Smouha, Alexandria City, Egypt. mohamed-hussein@alexu.edu.eg.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5518-0892
Mervat Mostafa El-GueneidyPsychiatric and mental-health nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University, 9 Edmond Vermont Street - Smouha, Alexandria City, Egypt.
Ola Ahmed Rashad LachinePsychiatric and mental-health nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University, 9 Edmond Vermont Street - Smouha, Alexandria City, Egypt.

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backgroundPatients with depression struggle with significant emotion regulation difficulties, which adversely affect their psychological well-being and hinder recovery. Traditional therapeutic approaches often fail to adequately address these challenges, leading to a persistent gap in effective mental health care. This research seeks to address this gap by investigating the impact of emotion regulation skills training on patients with depression.

aimTo assess the difficulties in emotion regulation among patients with depression and evaluate the impact of an emotion regulation skills training intervention on those with higher levels of emotion regulation difficulties, specifically focusing on increasing the use of adaptive emotion regulation strategies and reducing the use of maladaptive emotion regulation strategies.

methodA quasi-experimental research design was utilized, using three tools: a socio-demographic and Clinical Data structured interview schedule, Difficulties in Emotional Regulation Scale, and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire. Eighty patients with depression were recruited to assess those with higher levels of emotion regulation difficulties; out of those with greater difficulties, 30 patients were chosen to participate in the emotion regulation skills training intervention.

resultThe 80 studied subjects' emotion regulation difficulties scores ranged from 158 to 169 (164.5 ± 3.21), and they indicated less use of adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies and more use of maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies (56.07 ± 2.67). Regarding the intervention group, the overall mean score of the 30 patients' emotion regulation difficulties decreased from 167.35 ± 2.21 pre-intervention to 105.85 ± 3.33 post-intervention (p < 0.0001). Cognitive emotion regulation total scores improved markedly from 54.07 ± 1.66 to 35.2 ± 3.46 (p < 0.01). IMPLICATION: Healthcare providers should routinely assess emotion regulation difficulties in patients with depression and integrate personalized treatment plans that target individual emotion regulation difficulties.

conclusionThe findings suggest that the emotion regulation intervention has the potential to improve emotion regulation difficulties and cognitive emotion regulation strategies among patients with depression.

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DepressionEmotional RegulationAdaptation, PsychologicalAdultCognitionCognitive Behavioral TherapyFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedYoung AdultCognitive emotion regulationDepressionEmotion regulation difficultiesEmotion regulation module

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