Mahnaz Aliakbari - Professor, Department of Psychology, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran
Maryam HassanzadehHanoui - Department of Psychology, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran
Ahmad Alipour - Professor, Department of Psychology, Payam Noor University, South Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran
Noushin Bayat - Professor, Department of Rheumatology, Baqiyatullah University, Tehran, Iran

The present study aimed to examine the efficacy of schema therapy on the severity of inflammation in RA patients. The research method was cohort entry and end of study. The research sample consisted of ۳۰ RA patients meeting the study's inclusion criteria selected through purposeful sampling. The intervention method in this research was schema therapy based on Rizzo, Tweet, Stein, and Young's (۲۰۰۷) model. Descriptive statistics indicators were used to describe the research data, and inferential statistics indicators, including repeated measures analysis of variance, were used to analyze data. The results showed that ۱۶ people (۵۳.۳%) were women and ۱۴ (۴۶.۷%) were men, i.e., the ratio of males and females in the experimental and control groups was the same. The age range of the two research groups was between ۲۷ and ۶۱ years. The results showed that there is a significant difference (P ≤ ۰.۰۱) between the average scores of disease activity intensity and inflammation intensity in the stages before and after the intervention and follow-up, which means that the intensity of disease activity and inflammation intensity in the experimental group significantly You have decreased. On the other hand, the lack of post-test-follow-up difference in inflammation intensity scores (P > ۰.۰۵) showed that the effectiveness of schema therapy on the inflammation intensity of patients with RA was stable. It is suggested that in the country's health care system policy, plans should be made to use schema therapy to reduce the patient's pain.

Schema therapy, inflammation severity, Rheumatoid arthritis, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, disease activity