Effect of cognitive rehabilitation training on promotion of emotion regulation in women with postpartum depression

Introduction: Depression is one of the most common postpartum disturbances. Also, women with postpartum depression have emotional regulation problems. Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of cognitive rehabilitation training on emotional regulation of women with postpartum depression. Method: The research method was based on semi-experimental, pre-test, post-test and follow-up in relation to the control group. The sample consisted of 40 women with postpartum depression who were selected based on available simple random sampling. The groups were matched in terms of age, education, severity of depression, etc. Both groups were evaluated in the stages of pretest and post-test by emotional regulation questionnaire (Garnovskii,2001). For analysis of data, covariance analysis and SPSS19 software was used. Results: The data analysis indicated that cognitive rehabilitation in the experimental group compared with the control group had a significant change in the emotional regulation scores, and this effect has continued during the follow-up phase (P <0.001). Conclusion: According to the findings of this study, cognitive rehabilitation therapy can be used to treatment of emotional regulation in women with postpartum depression.