Effectiveness of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy onPerceived Stress and Quality of Life Related to the Skin Disease of Women with Psoriasis

Psoriasis is a chronic and recurrent disease that has an effect on the body, mental and quality of life of patients. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of mindfulness based cognitive therapy on perceived stress and quality of life associated with the disease of women with psoriasis referring to Isfahan Dermatology Research Center.

The research design was quasi-experimental using pre-test and post-test with control group and one-month follow-up. For this purpose, 30 patients who referred to the Dermatology and Cutaneous Leishmaniosis Research Center of Isfahan during 2017 were selected through convenience sampling and randomly assigned into experimental and control groups (each including 15 individuals). All participants responded to (IPQ), Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI) and Cohen Perceived Stress Scale in three stages, namely pre-test, post-test and follow-up. The experimental group attended in 8 focused therapies (Segal, Williams & Teasdale therapeutic package 2002) biweekly. Control group did not receive any intervention until the end of the follow-up phase. The data were analyzed by repeated measure analysis of variance.

The results revealed that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy significantly reduces perceived stress and enhanced the disease-related quality of life in the experimental group compared with the control group(p<0.001)

According to the results of this study, which showed that while the effect of mindfulness-based therapy is significant for improving and reducing perceived stress and improving the quality of life associated with psoriasis, this treatment was also effective in the follow-up phase and its effect was continuous.