Effect of Emotion Management Program on Self-Compassion and Emotional Regulation Difficulties among Patients with Schizophrenia

Background: Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder with a wide variety of symptoms which negatively affect patients' self-compassion and emotion regulation. Emotion management program is a nursing intervention that can be administered to patients with schizophrenia to reduce these problems. Aim: Evaluate the effect of emotion management program on self-compassion and emotional regulation difficulties among patients with schizophrenia Research design: The aim of this study was achieved through utilizing a quasi-experimental research design. Sample: included 50 patients with schizophrenia were chosen as a purposeful sample. Setting: this research was applied at the psychiatric inpatient unit of Minia Psychiatric Health and Addiction Treatment Hospital in New Minia city. Tools: Three tools; Structured Interview Questionnaire, self-compassion scale short-form (SCS-SF) and difficulties in emotion scale (DERS) were used Results: showed that there was a statistically significant variance in total score of self-compassion, and emotional regulation difficulties scores among the studied patients after program implementation. Conclusion: It was concluded that emotion management program effectively enhances self-compassion and decreases emotional regulation difficulties among patients with schizophrenia. Recommendation: Establishing training programs for psychiatric mental health nurses to apply programs to assist patients in enhancing their self-compassion and emotion regulation.