Background and aims: Chronic pain is a complex health problem because it involves psychological, emotional and cognitive aspects that affect patient’s quality of life. In order to manage pain experience, people develop different psychological coping strategies that can impact their life in a negative way. Mindfulness based interventions work with body, emotions and cognitive aspects that can improve and develop coping strategies to manage and accept pain experience. The aim of this study was to analyze the contribution of Mindful Self-Compassion Program (MSC) in self-care practice and negative mood in chronic pain patients. 
Method: We developed eight post-intervention focus group with chronic pain patients referred from Pain Unit of La Paz University Hospital. Half of the patients had been through a Behavioral-Cognitive Program and the other half of the patients had been through  MSC. In a qualitative phenomenological methodology, we explored MSC contribution self-care and negative mood of the sample of patients with chronic pain.  
Results: Both interventions were effective in order to improve coping with pain because they provided ways to accept it and manage it in an active way.  However, MSC allowed patients to connect with their own vitality, changing pain experience perception from something bad to something that helped them to increase self-knowledge.  Also, MSC led patients to be more careful with themselves, improving their quality of life. 
Conclusions: MSC improved pain experience of the patients because it included self-care practices, and this allowed them to develop better coping with chronic pain.

CONTRIBUTION OF MINDFUL SELF-COMPASSION PROGRAM IN SELF-CARE PRACTICE AND NEGATIVE MOOD IN CHRONIC PAIN PATIENTS