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Abstract
Difficulties in emotion regulation is a prominent feature of psychopathology of many psychiatric disorders, which indicates inability to manage and control ones emotions in social situations as well as having difficulties in emotional awareness, clarity, and tolerance. Deficiencies in emotional awareness and clarity may lead to difficulties in the identification of a feeling and failure of emotion regulation which impairs interpersonal relationship and overall social functioning, Emotion regulation training program is mainly intended as an intervention for emotional disturbance with intention of reducing negative effect of this disturbance on social functioning. The aim of study was to evaluate the effect of an emotion regulation training program on social functioning of patients with psychiatric disorders. This study followed quasi experimental design. It was conducted atPsychiatric Inpatient Department of Tanta University Hospital which is under supervision and direction of Tanta University. The subjects of this study consisted of a convenient sample of 60 patients with psychiatric disorder who were divided randomly into study and control group (30 patients in each). Using concealed sealed envelopes. Once the patient has consented to enter the trial an envelope is opened to randomly assign patients to (study group 30 patients) or (control group 30 patients). The sample size estimated using EPi-Info created by World Health Organization and Center for Disease Control and Prevention,Atlanta, Georgia, USA version 2002 ; 95% confidence limit, 80% power of the study, Ratio between treatment and control group 1:1, and Expected level of social functioning 30% before intervention that will be mprovedto 70% after intervention. Based on these criteria the sample size wasN 25(for each group).