The effecitiveness of mindfulness based cognitive behavioral training on reduction anxiety of death in patients with epilepsy

This study aimed to investigate the effect of mindfulness - based cognitive - behavioral training death anxiety among epileptic patients of association of epilepsy in Isfahan. the study was a quasi-experimental one with pre and post-test and control group. The statistical population of this study consisted of all the epileptic patients of association of epilepsy in Isfahan. The sampling method was purposive and based on the purpose of the study, 30 epileptic patients who had the highest score on Death anxiety questionnaires were selected and assigned into the experimental and control groups 15 in each. mindfulness - based cognitive - behavioral training was carried out for the experimental group for eight sessions each 90 minutes and the control group. Received no instructions. The analysis of covariance was utilized to test the research hypotheses. The results indicated that mindfulness-based cognitive- behavioral training as the independent variable had a significant effect on the reduction of death anxiety (p < 0/001)