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Abstract
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OBJECTIVE To explore the relationship between mental pain, self-compassion and automatic thoughts in depressed patients.
METHODS A total of 263 depressed inpatients were selected and tested by the Chinese version of the Orbach & Mikulincer Mental Pain Scale (OMMP), Self-Compassion Scale-Chinese Version (SCS-C), Automatic Thought Questionnaire (ATQ) between 2020 and 2021 from a tertiary psychiatric hospital through convenient sampling. SPSS 25.0 was employed for Pearson correlation analysis and multiple linear regression analysis, and we selected the Model 4 of SPSS PROCESS for mediating effect analysis.
RESULTS Mental pain was significantly positively correlated with automatic thoughts (P<0.001) and negatively associated with self-compassion (P<0.001). The results of Bootstrap test showed that the mediating effect of automatic thoughts on the relationship between self-compassion and mental pain was -0.274 (95% C, : -0.356 ~-0.203), accounting for 59.6% of the total effect.
CONCLUSION The automatic thoughts play a partial mediating role on the relationship between self-compassion and mental pain in depressed patients. Based on this path of mental pain, nurses should actively constitute intervention plans, in order to achieve the final goal of decreasing the incidence rate of suicide or self-injury in patients with depression. Copyright 2022 by the Chinese Nursing Association.
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