The Effect of Schema Therapy on Pain Acceptance, Pain Self-Efficacy, Pain Intensity, Emotion Regulation in Spinal Column Surgery Patients

 Aims and background: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of schema therapy on Pain Acceptance, Pain Self-Efficacy, pain intensity and emotion regulation in spinal column surgery patients suffering from pain in Milad hospital. Materials and Methods: In this study semi-experimental with pretest-posttest control group design was used, 96 male peopel who were eligible for inclusion criteria and underwent spinal surgery assigned to experimental and control groups by chance and the experimental ones received interventional therapy. This study was to analyze the data from the test ANCOVA. Results: Results showed that schema therapy is effective and ipmroved Pain Acceptance and Pain Self- Efficacy and reducing amount of pain Intensity and emotion management. Conclusion: The results revealed that schema therapy focuses on challenge and change process to create improvement and is appropriate for post operation pain management in patients with such a surgeries . According to the result of this study the schema therapy can be used as secondary prevention of pain consequences in these patients.