Effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction on Distress Tolerance, Brain – Behavior systems, and Executive Functions in People with MS in Mazandaran

The present study aimed to investigate the effect of education on stress reduction based on mind-awareness on distress tolerance, brain system behavior, and executive actions in people with MS.

This is a quasiexperimental study with pre-test and post-test design with control group. The statistical population included all patients with MS who referred to MS association of Mazandaran and had a medical record between 2019 and 2020 years. In this study, 30 subjects have been selected by purposive sampling method and after matching, randomly were assigned to two experimental and control groups (15-15). The experimental groups consisted of eight 90-minute sessions with Segal & at all. Mental Awareness Stress Reduction (2002), and a control group in the waiting list for training. stress tolerance, Behavioral Active Activation Systems, and executive actions were used for data collection. Data analysis was analyzed using frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation and covariance.

The findings showed that stress reduction based on mind-awareness caused a significant difference in distress tolerance, brain system behavior and cognitive ability in patients with MS after the intervention and the severity of these symptoms was lower in the experimental group compared to the control group. stress reduction based on mind-awareness also had a greater impact on executive actions .

It is suggested that, along with medical therapies, education for the mindfulness should also be conducted to solve the problems of people with MS.