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BACKGROUND: One of the important causes of anxiety in COVID‑19 disease is the inability toregulate emotion and lack of self‑control during threatening conditions. The psychotherapy techniquehas been effective in reducing these symptoms. Therefore, this study attempted to evaluate theeffectiveness of compassion‑based therapy on emotion regulation and self‑control in patients withCOVID‑19 after discharge.MATERIALS AND METHOD: It was a quasi‑experimental pretest‑posttest study with a control group.The statistical population consisted of 30 men (15 in each group) who were in the quarantine periodof COVID‑19 disease. Available sampling was used and the participants were randomly assignedto experimental and control groups. In the experimental group, compassion‑based treatment wasperformed in 10 sessions of 90 min. Tanji’s self‑control questionnaire and Garnofsky’s EmotionRegulation questionnaires were used. Data analysis were performed using SPSS 21 software andmultivariate analysis of covariance.RESULTS: There was a significant difference between the mean scores of emotion regulation andself‑control variables in the experimental and control groups (P < 0.001). The effect of this treatmenton increasing the emotion regulation score was 49% and on increasing the self‑control score was 37%.CONCLUSION: Compassion‑based therapy can increase cognitive regulation and improve self‑controlin patients with COVID‑19 disease. It is suggested that this intervention can be used in psychologicaltreatment programs