psychometric properties of the persian version of cognitive fusion questionnaire-chronic illness in multiple sclerosis

Background: cognitive fusion is a substantial variable of acceptance and commitment therapy (act). recently, various instruments have been developed to assess cognitive fusion, including a version relevant to medical illness referred to as the cognitive fusion questionnaire-chronic illness (cfq-ci). objectives: this study aimed to assess the validity and reliability of the persian version of cfq-ci in multiple sclerosis (ms) patients. methods: in a cross-sectional study, the persian version of cfq-ci and several other measures that assessed self-compassion, depression, and social anxiety symptoms were administered on 195 ms patients in shiraz emam reza clinic. exploratory factor analysis (efa), internal consistency, and convergent validity were used for data analysis. results: efa revealed a 1-factor model. the cronbach αwas 0.92. as to the convergent validity, cfq-ci had positive associations with measures of depression and social anxiety and negative associations with self-compassion. conclusions: overall, this research supports the psychometric properties of the persian version of cfq-ci.