The efficacy of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on Depression, Rumination and Dysfunctional Attitude in Pregnant women with depression

Attending to psychological state in pregnant women with depression because of strong influence on incidence, progression and prognosis of this disease is very important. The aim of present study was investigating the effectiveness of Mindfullness Based Cognitive therapy on Depression, Rumination and Dysfunctional Attitude in pregnant women with depression. Methods and Materials: This study is pretest – posttest and follow-up with control group. Tچابزار و روش: در این تحقیق که برروی افراد تحت درمان با متادو…. he present study was performed on pregnant women with depression of Kohdasht society health centers. 24 pregnant women were selected by volunteers sampling method and were assigned to either control group (n=12) and or MBCT groups (n=12) and Demographic Questionnaire, Beck Depression Inventory, Ruminative Response Scale and Dysfunctional Attitude Scale were administrated as pretest. The MBCT group received 8 sessions of mindfulness based cognitive therapy and the control group received no intervention. At the end, post-test was administrated on two groups and repeated measure multi-variable was used for data analysis by spss-20 software. The results of the present study indicated that there were significant differences between the experimental groups control group and MBCT (p<0. 001). So that, in MBCT group decrease the mean of depression, Rumination and Dysfunctional Attitude. Therefore, can be suggested that Considered appropriate clinical trials for reduce in psychological symptom in pregnant women with depression