The Effect of Group Poetry Therapy on Cognitive Emotion Regulation and Moods of Psychotic Patients: The Case of Razi Psychiatric Hospital, Tehran

Abstract

The main objective of this study was to examine the effect of group poetry therapy on cognitive emotion regulation and on the changes in the mood of psychotic patients in Razi Psychiatric Hospital of Tehran in 2015. The study was quasi-empirical and used pretest and posttest with a control group of 22 psychotic patients (11 people in intervention group and 11 people in control group). For the intervention group, a one-hour group poetry therapy session was performed twice a week for four weeks. Data collection methodology included demographic information questionnaire, Garnefski’s Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) (36 items), and Brunel Mood Scales (BRUMS) (24 items). Statistical analysis was conducted by multivariate covariance analysis in SPSS (v.21). The results showed that the intervention of poetry therapy, in comparison to the control group, significantly improved the scores of positive aspects of cognitive emotion regulation of the patients (p 0.05). Also, poetry therapy intervention, compared to the control group, did not make any changes in the mood of the patients (p> 0.05). It can be concluded that group poetry therapy is effective on the positive aspects of cognitive emotion regulation of psychotic patients while it is not effective on the negative aspects of cognitive emotion regulation and moods of the patients

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