A comparison of cognitive emotion regulation, lifestyle, and dimensions of adjustment in 3 groups of patients with multiple sclerosis, patients with cancer under chemotherapy and patients relieved from brain tumor

Khadijeh Jahan Miri, Siamak Samani

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Public Health 2017 10(6):1774-1778

The purpose of the present study WAS to compare cognitive emotion regulation, lifestyle, and dimensions of adjustment in 3 groups of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), patients with cancer under chemotherapy and patients relieved from brain tumor. The statistical sample included 72 patients that were all selected by convenience sampling method. They filled out the questionnaires of cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire, multidimensional adjustment scales, and lifestyle questionnaire. The results showed that in the score of positive and negative cognitive emotion regulation, the mean score of the MS group was significantly more than the cancer group. In lifestyle, the mean score of the brain tumor group was significantly more than the other two groups. In adjustment and personal, social, job, and family dimensions, the scores of the cancer group were significantly more than the other two groups.

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