The Effectiveness of Cognition Therapy Based on Mindfulness on Negative Automatic Thoughts and Anxiety Thoughts in Female Student with Depression Disorder

depression disorder brings about numerous psychological, emotional and academic damages for the students that appropriate psychological therapies should be applied to decrease these damages. therefore the present study was conducted aiming to investigate the effectiveness of cognition therapy based on mindfulness on negative automatic thoughts and sleep problems in female students with depression disorder?

it was a quasi-experimental study with pretest, posttest with control group. The statistical population of the current study was the female students with depression disorder in the city of Tehran in the academic year 2018-19. 30 female students with depression disorder were selected through purposive sampling method and they were randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups (15 students in the experimental and 15 in the control group). The experimental group received the intervention of cognition therapy based on mindfulness (Segal, Williams and Tizdel, 2013) during two months in eight seventy-five-minute sessions. The applied questionnaires in this study included depression questionnaire (Goldberg, 1972) and negative automatic thoughts questionnaire (Holon and Kenda, 1980) and sleep problems questionnaire (Bois et.al, 1989). The data from the study were analyzed through MANCOVA method.

the results showed that cognition therapy based on mindfulness has significant effect on negative automatic thoughts and sleep in the students with depression disorder (p<0.001).

findings of the present study reveal that cognition therapy based on mindfulness can be used as an efficient therapy to decrease negative automatic thoughts and sleep problems in the students with depression disorder employing techniques such as mindfu.